Epistemic injustice explores territory between ethics and epistemology (“Epistemology” asks the question, “how do we know something to be true?”). Miranda Fricker, who coined the term "epistemic injustice". argues that there is a distinctively epistemic type of injustice, in which someone is wronged specifically in their capacity as a knower, wronged therefore in a capacity essential to human value.
In 2017, Routledge published a Handbook of Epistemic Injustice. Now the field includes the study of epistemic oppression, epistemicide, epistemic exploitation, epistemic violence, and so much more. In 2019, Professor Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni coined the term “cognitive empire” which is basically Gramsci’s concept of hegemony for a new woke postmodern era.