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Introduction: Histories of Ignorance
Journal for the History of Knowledge, 2021 This introduction discusses the essays in this special issue in terms of ongoing changes in the historical study of knowledge. It addresses the challenges posed by the history of knowledge to the history of science and by the history of ignorance to the
Lukas M. Verburgt, Peter Burke
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History, Scientific Ignorance, and the Anthropocene
Journal for the History of Knowledge, 2021 This essay reflects on the ways in which the notions of scientific ignorance and the Anthropocene bear upon the development of the history of knowledge, asking what it might mean for the field to make an “ignorance” and “anthropocenic” turn. The central
Lukas M. Verburgt
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Sociology after the postcolonial: Response to Julian Go's ‘thinking against empire’
The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 74, Issue 3, Page 310-323, June 2023., 2023 Abstract Julian Go's ‘Thinking Against Empire’ identifies the corpus of ‘anticolonial thought’ as being instructive for a wider rethinking of how sociology might rally its key conceptualisations of social relations. He insightfully identifies the marginalisation of such thinking from Sociology as an institutionalised discipline. In our response we take
Sivamohan Valluvan, Nisha Kapoor
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Normalisation et « retour au sol » des résidus organiques
Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances, 2021 In effect since the 1970s, the AFNOR NF U44-051 standard governs the conditions for the marketing of compost produced from organic waste in France. According to this norm, since 2007, for each category of pollutants, thresholds must not be exceeded in ...
François-Joseph Daniel
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American Ethnologist, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 580-594, November 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT In China many petrochemical plants are adjacent to residential areas. Despite this, the people who live in these areas appear indifferent to the threat of toxic pollution and chemical explosions, even though they are aware of the danger. Building on historical and social studies of ignorance, I show how residents in a southern Chinese city ...
LORETTA IENG TAK LOU
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Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances, 2021 For over twenty years, ignorance has been a thriving research topic in sociology, philosophy, history, and anthropology, leading to a rich body of literature. This article critically rethinks the contributions and limitations of ignorance studies.
Laura Barbier +3 more
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On Agnotology as Built-in Ignorance [PDF]
Africa Spectrum, 2013 Beitrag zur "Debate on Anthropology in Africa" in Africa Spectrum.
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History and Theory, Volume 61, Issue 3, Page 482-491, September 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT In this review essay, I examine Julia Adeney Thomas, Mark Williams, and Jan Zalasiewicz's The Anthropocene: A Multidisciplinary Approach. As indicated by the book's subtitle, the authors stress the necessity of approaching the Anthropocene from a multidisciplinary perspective as opposed to an interdisciplinary one.
Ian Hesketh
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History and Theory, Volume 61, Issue 3, Page 371-390, September 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT Modernity held sacred the aspirational formula of the open future: a promise of human determination that doubles as an injunction to control. Today, the banner of this plannable future is borne by technology. Allegedly impersonal, neutral, and exempt from disillusionment with ideology, belief in technological change saturates the present ...
Sun‐ha Hong
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The epistemic politics of “northern‐led” humanitarianism: Case of Lebanon
Area, Volume 54, Issue 2, Page 330-334, June 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper examines the epistemic politics of hegemonic humanitarianism by building on agnotology theories. I unpack the idea of “professional authority” with the purpose of showing how the Global North's humanitarian agencies thrive on both a technocratic and an unpredictability approach.
Estella Carpi
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