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POLITICAL APPLICATIONS OF AGNOTOLOGY AND CONSTRUCTED IGNORANCE [PDF]

, 2023
Agnotology is the study of culturally and socially constructed ignorance. This paper seeks to marry the emerging field of agnotology with the institutions and mechanisms of politics by providing analyses of political ignorance focusing on a theoretical framework built on agnotological practices.
Jalen Ward
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Agnotology: Ignorance and Absence or Towards a Sociology of Things That Aren’t There

Social Epistemology, 2014
The study of ignorance, or agnotology, has many similarities with studies of absence. This paper outlines a framework for agnotology which is shaped by interdisciplinary studies of both ignorance and absence, and identifies properties such as chronicity, granularity, scale, intentionality, and ontology in relation to epistemology as useful for studying
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An Interview with Michael Betancourt, author of Agnotology & Crisis in Digital Capitalism [PDF]

NANO, 2015
Sean Scanlan, NANO's editor, interviews artist, curator, art historian and critical theorist Michael Betancourt to discuss the nature of agnotology, a term that means the “creation of uncertainty and ambivalent ‘fact’; it is a competitive tool ...
Sean Scanlan, Michael Betancourt
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Letter to the Editor on ‘Smoking cessation in pregnancy: An update for maternity care practitioners’ [PDF]

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2020
Alain Braillon
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Theorizing White Ignorance From Du Bois to Mills: Narrative and Consumptive Innocence. [PDF]

Br J Sociol
ABSTRACT Starting with Du Bois, scholars of race have investigated the role of White ignorance as it perpetuates White supremacy. Today, Charles Mills and scholars continue this inquiry by expanding the importance of White ignorance to include multiple forms. This article contributes to this inquiry by highlighting the role and types of White innocence.
Montalva Barba M, Petersen C.
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Beyond Biological Essentialism: White Nationalism, Health Disparities Data, and the Cultivation of Lay Agnotology [PDF]

Social Problems
Aaron Panofsky, Nicole Iturriaga
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La production de l’ignorance en matière de dangers professionnels est-elle un processus cognitif uniquement contrôlé par le patronat ?

Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances, 2021
Based on a critical discussion of Pascal Marichalar’s book, Qui a tué les verriers de Givors?, this article aims to highlight the value of taking into account the subjective dimension that workers bring into their activities, for agnotology researches ...
Stéphane Le Lay
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Climate Management and Structural Ignorance in Ray Hammond’s Extinction

Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2021
In his dystopian novel, Extinction (2005), Ray Hammond envisions an image of the world in the near future where it is troubled by an extreme form of climate management that enables multi-national corporations and governments from the wealthier regions of
Hakan Yılmaz
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Why Science Does Not Know

Journal for the History of Knowledge, 2021
Currently, “scientific ignorance,” that is, the blind spots and knowledge gaps of science itself, appears to be an important and legitimate research topic in the sociology, history, and philosophy of science.
Peter Wehling
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An Outline of Pedagogical Agnotology. Three Subjective Tales [PDF]

, 2017
The term „agnotology” was introduced by Robert Proctor. Agnotology is the study on the spread of ignorance, its social scope and impact, causes and effects. The author tried to analyze whether it is possible that ignorance is disseminated by schools, the
Kwieciński, Zbigniew
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