Counterinsurgency, Empire and Ignorance [PDF]
, 2018 Counterinsurgency, as the violence of empire, is directed at the subjugation and compliance of a population. At its core, this involves both the generation of knowledge about that population and the cultural production of militarised ignorance of, about ...
Mark McGovern, Mcgovern, Mark
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Uncertain Knowledge: The Medicalisation of Intersex People and the Production of Ignorance
Social SciencesIgnorance is produced through mechanisms related to power relations and socio-cultural context. This article examines whether the theoretical conceptualisation of agnotology may be useful when exploring intersex and the way it has been erased socially ...
Michal Raz
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The role of pseudo-cognitive authorities and self-deception in the dissemination of fake news
Open Information Science, 2019 This paper draws together insights from a variety of fields (including philosophy, psychology, information studies, sociology, politics, and media studies) to synthesize insight into why fake news is created, disseminated, sustained and authorized so as ...
Froehlich Thomas J.
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Understanding incomprehensibility: Misgivings and potentials of the phenomenological psychopathology of schizophrenia. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Wendler H, Fuchs T.
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Expertise, moral subversion, and climate deregulation [PDF]
The weaponizing of scientific expertise to oppose regulation has been extensively studied. However, the relevant studies, belonging to the emerging discipline of agnotology, remain focused on the analysis of empirical corruption: of misinformation, doubt
Elabbar, Ahmad
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The Environmental Toll of Digital Technologies
FilozofiaThis study delves into the complex connection between digital technologies and environmental sustainability in the face of the worsening climate crisis.
João Ribeiro Mendes
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Using the Socioscientific Context of Climate Change To Teach Chemical Content and the Nature of Science [PDF]
, 2016 A thematic course called “Climate Change: Chemistry and Controversy” was developed for upper-level non-STEM students. This course used the socioscientific context of climate change to teach chemical principles and the nature of science.
Charity Flener-Lovitt (1736818)
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What Is Critical About the Crisis of Expertise? A Review of Gil Eyal's The Crisis of Expertise (2019, Cambridge: Polity Press). [PDF]
Int J Polit Cult Soc, 2022 Chesta RE.
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Agnotology and the Precautionary Principle
, 2021 O objetivo deste artigo é analisar as relações entre agnotologia (construção social da ignorância) e o princípio da precaução (PP) sob dois aspectos. O primeiro diz respeito à crítica de que parcela dos defensores do PP teria utilizado estratégias de construção de ignorância.
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