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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

Ignorance is risk: Social media and insecurity as understood through a regime of agnotology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Despite the ever-growing presence of social media platforms, few have studied their impact on security as a whole. While discussions on security issues that stem from social media often hold users responsible, this thesis argues that the platforms ...
Colomb, Noé Louis André Annet Merlin
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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

For-Profit Colleges and Agnotology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Through the lens of agnotology, I will investigate why for-profit colleges are still prevalent in higher education today despite their predatory nature.
Hopkins, Daniel
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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

National climate scenarios: (un)building climate knowledge and inducing environmental ignorance in Mexico

open access: yesGeo: 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
wiley   +1 more source

Violent sustainability: Blitzscale and counteraccounting in an Indian agtech start‐up

open access: yesEconomic 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
wiley   +1 more source

Agnotology and the Know-Nothing Party: Then and Now [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Belligerent ignorance has always proved strategic in the hegemonic goals of empire. The imperial history of the present is no exception. The Know-Nothing Party was founded in the USA in 1843, a pivotal year in America’s history of territorial expansion ...
Kadir, Djelal
core   +3 more sources

Radical Methodological Openness and Method as Politics: Reflections on Militant Research with Squatters in Catalonia

open access: yesAntipode, 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
wiley   +1 more source

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