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ENTANGLING KNOWLEDGE AND IGNORANCE

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 483-493, September 2025.
ABSTRACT This review essays situates Alain Corbin's Terra Incognita: A History of Ignorance in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries within current discussions of knowledge and ignorance related to intellectual history, the history of science, and the history of knowledge.
Vera Keller
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge and ignorance in forensic identification: the origins of a contested human rights fact

open access: yesTapuya
In 2006, DNA testing revealed that the Chilean Medical Legal Service had misidentified at least half of the 96 human rights victims whose remains had been exhumed in 1991 from a lot in the Santiago General Cemetery known as Patio 29.
Eden Medina
doaj   +1 more source

Epistemic insouciance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper identifies and elucidates a hitherto unnamed epistemic vice: epistemic insouciance. Epistemic insouciance consists in a casual lack of concern about whether one’s beliefs have any basis in reality or are adequately supported by the best ...
Cassam, Quassim
core   +1 more source

Absent Tech: Data, Violence and (Non)Credibility at the EU Borders

open access: yesInternational Migration, Volume 63, Issue 4, August 2025.
ABSTRACT The digitisation of borders has permeated academic and political debates, the image of ‘digital fortress Europe’ becoming normalised and taken for granted. This ‘taken for grantedness’, however, clashes with the reality on the ground and has important implications for migrants' rights and credibility.
Lucrezia Canzutti
wiley   +1 more source

Positioning nuclear power in the low-carbon electricity transition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Addressing climate change requires de-carbonizing future energy supplies in the increasingly energy dependent world. The IEA and the IPCC (2014) mention the following as low-carbon energy supply options: ‘renewable energy, nuclear power and fossil fuels ...
Arrighi   +11 more
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State‐Crafted Dominant Fictions: How Bad Documents, Gut Feelings, and Selective Intelligence Shape Border Control in Europe

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 627-636, July 2025.
ABSTRACT This article details how knowledge is produced, circulated, and acted upon by migration control officials working in different sites of the European border regime. Drawing on research into the politics of knowledge in border and migration control, along with studies of street‐level bureaucracy, we trace the knowledge mobilised to craft state ...
Annika Lindberg, Lisa Marie Borrelli
wiley   +1 more source

Politics, ecology, and the new anthropology of energy: exploring the emerging frontiers of hydraulic fracking

open access: yesJournal of Political Ecology, 2014
This article reviews recent literature relevant to the ongoing shale gas boom and introduces the Journal of Political Ecology's Special Section on hydraulic fracking.
Anna J. Willow, Sara Wylie
doaj   +1 more source

Tackling ignorance about law in human rights education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 1521-1537, June 2025.
Abstract This paper aims to unpack potential reasons why law and legal knowledge—despite its apparent importance and value in teaching and learning about human rights—appears to be largely conspicuous by its absence in human rights education (HRE) in schooling.
Suzanne Egan
wiley   +1 more source

Police, racisme et agnotologie : résistances et rationalisations des agents de la paix face aux allégations de racisme

open access: yesCriminologie
Dans ce texte, nous examinons la manière dont les organisations policières pensent la question du racisme au sein de leur profession. Comment est-ce que les policiers et les policières expliquent les disparités de traitement avérées qui touchent les ...
Massimiliano Mulone   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Circulating ignorance: complexity and agnogenesis in the obesity “epidemic” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
International audienceThis article examines what is said to be un/known about obesity and the ways in which attributions of knowledge or ignorance circulate in the field of public health nutrition.
Sanabria, Emilia
core   +2 more sources

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