The information professions need a paradigmatic shift to address the epistemicide happening within our field and the ways we have systematically undermined knowledge systems falling outside of Western traditions. Epistemicide is the killing, silencing, annihilation, or devaluing of a knowledge system. We argue epistemicide happens when epistemic injustices are persistent and systematic and collectively work as a structured and systemic oppression of particular ways of knowing. We present epistemicide as a conceptual approach for understanding and analyzing ways knowledge systems are silenced or devalued within Information Science. We extend Fricker's framework by: (a) identifying new types of epistemic injustices, and (b) by adding to Fricker's concepts of Primary and Secondary Harm and introducing the concept of a Third Harm happening at an intergenerational level. Addressing epistemicide is critical for information professionals because we task ourselves with handling knowledge from every field. Acknowledgement of and taking steps to interrupt epistemic injustices and these specific harms are supportive of the social justice movements already happening. This paper serves as an interruption of epistemic injustice by presenting actions toward justice in the form of operationalized interventions of epistemicide.

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中断认识论：一个实用的框架，用于命名、识别和结束信息行业中的认识不公正

信息行业需要进行范式转变，以解决我们领域内发生的知识杀戮以及我们系统地破坏西方传统之外的知识体系的方式。Epistemicide是对知识系统的杀戮、沉默、消灭或贬值。我们认为，当认知上的不公正持续存在且系统性并且共同作用为对特定认识方式的结构化和系统性压迫时，就会发生认知杀戮。我们将知识杀戮作为一种概念方法来理解和分析信息科学中知识系统被沉默或贬值的方式。我们通过以下方式扩展了弗里克的框架：(a) 识别新类型的认知不公正，以及 (b) 通过添加弗里克的主要和次要伤害的概念并引入 a 的概念第三次伤害发生在代际层面。解决知识杀戮问题对于信息专业人员来说至关重要，因为我们的任务是处理来自各个领域的知识。承认并采取措施打断认知上的不公正和这些具体的危害，支持已经发生的社会正义运动。本文通过以杀戮的可操作干预的形式呈现伸向正义的行动来中断认知上的不公正。