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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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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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Ignorance, Power and Harm: Agnotology and the Criminological Imagination
, 2018 This book discusses the concept of 'agnosis' and its significance for criminology through a series of case studies, contributing to the expansion of the criminological imagination.
Barton, Alana,, Davis, Howard,
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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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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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On Agnotology as Built-in Ignorance [PDF]
Africa Spectrum, 2013 Beitrag zur "Debate on Anthropology in Africa" in Africa Spectrum.
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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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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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„LOSSEPLADSEN FORMODES AT VÆRE UNDER AFVIKLING.“
Kulturstudier, 2019 Lossepladser var engang ganske almindelige og lå spredt ud over landet. I dag er det de færreste, der ved, hvor affaldet ender. Samtidig rapporterer vandværker om forurenet grundvand, mens såkaldte generationsforureninger som Cheminova ved Harboøre ...
Nina Toudal Jessen
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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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