Ranchers face off with the Bureau of Land Management in a dispute over historic public land grazing rights near Bunkerville, Nevada on 12 April 2014. Photo Jim Uruquhart/Reuters The term is ubiquitous and double-edged. It is both a key source of authentic knowledge and a danger to true solidarity Patrick J Casey is assistant professor of philosophy at Holy Family University, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Everywhere you turn, there is talk of lived experience. But there is little consensus about what the phrase ‘lived experience’ means, where it came from, and whether it has any value. Although long used by academics, … Continue reading What is ‘lived experience’?