article · npj Ocean Sustainability
Contemporary ocean justice scholarship has advanced crucial debates on distributive, procedural, and recognitional injustices in marine governance. Yet, these frameworks risk remaining incomplete without explicit attention to cognitive justice - the hierarchies of knowledge systems that shape how oceans are known, governed, and valued. This Perspective introduces blue cognitive justice as a foundational, but under-articulated, dimension of ocean justice. Blue cognitive justice demands a shift from tokenistic knowledge “integration” toward the recognition, prioritisation, and epistemic self-determination of historically marginalised ocean knowledges to work towards more equitable and sustainable ocean futures.
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DOI: 10.1038/s44183-026-00237-7
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