Role
Karl Landström is a Research Fellow in applied philosophy at the Responsible and Sustainable Business Lab (RSB), Nottingham Business School.
Career overview
Karl joined Nottingham Business School and Nottingham Trent University in November 2022. Karl is a Senior Research Associate with the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science at University of Johannesburg. He holds Master’s degrees in Education and Applied Ethics from Linköping University, and completed his Ph.D in Philosophy at Coventry University).
Research areas
My research interests lie at the intersection of three areas of philosophy: The first being social and feminist epistemology, where I have particular interest and work in areas such as epistemic oppression, decolonial epistemologies and ignorance. Second, I work in the philosophy social science, and particularly the qualitative social sciences, where I’m in interested in the social epistemology and ethics of social science research practice as it is practiced in non-ideal and contingent conditions. Last, but certainly not least, I work in applied ethics with specific interests in normative business ethics and research ethics.
Publications
Landström, K. (2024). On Epistemic Extractivism and the Ethics of Data-Sharing. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 54(5), 387-411. https://doi.org/10.1177/00483931241255253
Landström, K. (2024). On epistemic freedom and epistemic injustice. Inquiry, 1-24.
Landström, K. & Crawley, H. (2023). ”Migration research, Coloniality, and Epistemic injustice”. In Crawley, H., & Teye, J. (Eds.) The Palgrave Handbook on South-South Migration and Inequality. Cham: Palgrave McMillan, 83-104.
Landström, K. (2022). On hermeneutical openness and wilful hermeneutical ignorance. Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics, 24(1), 113-134.
Landström, K. (2021). Archives, Epistemic Injustice and Knowing the Past. Ethics and Social Welfare, 15(4), 379-394.
Crawford, G., Mai-Bornu, Z., & Landström, K. (2021). Decolonising knowledge production on Africa: why it’s still necessary and what can be done. Journal of the British Academy, 9 (Supplementary Issue 1), 21-46.