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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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Ignorance is risk: Social media and insecurity as understood through a regime of agnotology [PDF]
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
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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For-Profit Colleges and Agnotology [PDF]
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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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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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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Violent sustainability: Blitzscale and counteraccounting in an Indian agtech start‐up
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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Agnotology and the Know-Nothing Party: Then and Now [PDF]
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
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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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