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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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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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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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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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, 2013 Agnotology is a term that has been used to describe the study of ignorance and its cultural production (Proctor in Agnotology: the making and unmaking of ignorance. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2008).
Cook, John, Bedford, Daniel
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Knowledge in the dark: scientific challenges and ways forward
FACETS, 2019 A key dimension of our current era is Big Data, the rapid rise in produced data and information; a key frustration is that we are nonetheless living in an age of ignorance, as the real knowledge and understanding of people does not seem to be ...
Jonathan M. Jeschke +3 more
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Guilt, Innocence, Post-Guilt: Memory Communities and their Discontents in Germany
Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y SocialesThe article examines the intricate dynamics of memory politics and cultural discontent in Germany, focusing on Jewish and Palestinian communities post-1945.
Dani Kranz
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Quand l’ignorance présente un intérêt
Cahiers Droit, Sciences & TechnologiesWhile ignorance is commonly equated with an absence of knowledge, it can also be the object of production. The idea is to create controversy with the aim of weakening an inconvenient scientific result.
Simon Hutin
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