Hermeneutical Injustice

Hermeneutical injustice is a species of epistemic injustice, which involves a wrong done to one in their capacity as an epistemic agent: as someone who is trying to know more about the world around them, and to share their knowledge with others.Hermeneutical injustice occurs when an important experience fails to be properly understood, either by the person having the experience or by others within one's social milieu, where this failure is a result of an injustice in the background methods that are used to determine hermeneutical tools.Hermeneutical tools include any form of interpretive device that is drawn upon to render a phenomenon intelligible.Majority of the scholarship on hermeneutical injustice has centered upon the importance of concepts, but hermeneutical resources may also include tropes, narratives, stories, scripts, analogies, and metaphors.