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ENTANGLING KNOWLEDGE AND IGNORANCE
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
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Knowledge and ignorance in forensic identification: the origins of a contested human rights fact
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
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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
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Absent Tech: Data, Violence and (Non)Credibility at the EU Borders
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
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Positioning nuclear power in the low-carbon electricity transition [PDF]
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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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
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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
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Tackling ignorance about law in human rights education
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
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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
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Circulating ignorance: complexity and agnogenesis in the obesity “epidemic” [PDF]
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
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