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Agnotology: learning from mistakes
, 2013 Abstract. Replication is an important part of science, and by repeating past analyses, we show that a number of papers in the scientific literature contain severe methodological flaws which can easily be identified through simple tests and demonstrations.
R. E. Benestad +4 more
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Geo: Geography and Environment, Volume 12, Issue 1, January‐June 2025.Abstract The interactions between climate information producers and local decision‐makers have remained largely underexplored. The processes of building a local climate research agenda and informing adaptation policies are still unknown in many Global South countries.
Teresa Guadalupe de León Escobedo +1 more
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The adoption of knowledge in the structures of everyday life of the information society
Studia Humanitatis, 2019 The purpose of this paper is to analyse the idea that if cognitive acts can compose everyday life of a person in the information society. The author describes the main details of the mechanism of knowledge in the conditions of the information society ...
Gоlubinskaya Anastasia Valerievna
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Why universities and scientific world should stay away from the tobacco industry. Journey in Big Tobacco deception [PDF]
, 2018 Universities are institutions dedicated to improving life through the research and dissemination of knowledge. They facilitates the "peer to peer" communication among young people; the acquisition of knowledge and skills to improve personal and community
Cattaruzza, Maria Sofia +6 more
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Agnotology and a Monstrous Ignorance: Race and Curriculum Policy in England
Zeitschrift für erziehungswissenschaftliche Migrationsforschung (ZeM), 2023 This article discusses, through the theory of agnotology, the persistent ignorance as to how Britain became multiracial, multicultural and multifaith in a post-imperial age, the origins of a racist imperial curriculum and the hostility to changes in the school curriculum which would provide a clearer understanding of the imperial past, and the efforts ...
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Violent sustainability: Blitzscale and counteraccounting in an Indian agtech start‐up
Economic Anthropology, Volume 12, Issue 1, January 2025.Abstract In recent years, there has been rapid digitalization in agriculture, with India seeing a significant rise in agricultural technology (agtech) start‐ups. Many of these start‐ups promise to address the climate crisis by promoting the economic and ecological sustainability of agriculture through market‐driven business models.
Nikhit Agrawal
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Antipode, Volume 56, Issue 2, Page 469-491, March 2024.Abstract In 2017, it was estimated that over 87,000 families—around 270,000 people—lived in squatted properties in Spain. Such figures, often used by the media to stigmatise residential occupations and generate moral panic, give an ill‐defined yet powerful indication of the prevalence of squatting within and outside organised housing movements.
Mara Ferreri +2 more
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La production des savoirs sur les pesticides dans la règlementation européenne
VertigO, 2016 This article presents a critical approach of the European rules of knowledge production on the harmful effects of plant protection products. We borrow the theorical framework from sociology, agnotology, to show that the lack of awareness of the origin of
Annie Martin
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Interview on \u3cem\u3eThe Black Box Society\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
, 2014 Hidden algorithms drive decisions at major Silicon Valley and Wall Street firms. Thanks to automation, those firms can approve credit, rank websites, and make myriad other decisions instantaneously. But what are the costs of their methods?
Joseph, Lawrence, Pasquale, Frank A.
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Failing kidneys: Hotspots, blind spots and biopolitics of indifference
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 24-39, March 2024.Abstract Chronic kidney disease of non‐traditional cause (CKDnt) is commonly associated with monocropping agriculture, heat stress and impoverished working conditions, referred to as CKDnt “hotspots.” The condition is also emerging in various sites of environmental contamination, raising questions as to whether multiple variants of the condition exist ...
Ciara Kierans, César Padilla‐Altamira
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