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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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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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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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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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Theoria, Volume 88, Issue 3, Page 701-720, June 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper reviews how research on the demarcation problem has developed, starting from Popper's criterion of falsifiability and ending with recent naturalistically oriented approaches. The main differences between traditional and contemporary approaches to the problem are explicated in terms of six postulates called the traditional ...
Ilmari Hirvonen, Janne Karisto
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Nuclear science and technology in the Malaysian context: Three phases of technoscientific knowledge transfer (ETTLG) [PDF]
, 2017 This essay considers the development of the nuclear science programme in Malaysia from a transnational perspective by examining the interactions between state agents and other external nuclear-knowledge/technology related actors and agents.
Lee, Clarissa Ai Ling*
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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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The Collaborative Management of Sustained Unsustainability: On the Performance of Participatory Forms of Environmental Governance [PDF]
, 2019 n modern democratic consumer societies, decentralized, participative, and consensus-oriented forms of multi-stakeholder governance are supplementing, and often replacing, conventional forms of state-centered environmental government.
Blühdorn, Ingolfur, Deflorian, Michael
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Agnotology and information [PDF]
Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2015 ABSTRACT Agnotology was coined in an effort to create a title for a project to build an understanding of ignorance. The poster proposed seeks to re‐introduce ignorance to information science through the comparison of the construction of ignorance in agnotology and the construction of information in information science.
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