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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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Knowledge and ignorance in forensic identification: the origins of a contested human rights fact
TapuyaIn 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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A sociological checklist for assessing environmental health risks [PDF]
, 2014 The contribution of social sciences to risk assessment has often been confined to dimensions of risk perception and communication. This article relates an effort to promote knowledge from the social sciences that addresses other dimensions of risk issues.
Benamouzig, Daniel +3 more
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Social Disorder as a Social Good [PDF]
, 2010 In complex systems, disorder and order are interrelated, so that disorder can be an inevitable consequence of ordering. Often this disorder can be disruptive, but sometimes it can be beneficial.
Marshall, J
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POLITICAL APPLICATIONS OF AGNOTOLOGY AND CONSTRUCTED IGNORANCE
, 2023 Agnotology is the study of culturally and socially constructed ignorance. This paper seeks to marry the emerging field of agnotology with the institutions and mechanisms of politics by providing analyses of political ignorance focusing on a theoretical framework built on agnotological practices.
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"His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge" : Weiß Sherlock Holmes, was er tut? [PDF]
, 2013 "His ignorance", so lesen wir im zweiten Kapitel von Conan Doyles 'A Study in Scarlet', das den Titel "Science of Deduction" trägt, "his ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge".
Wirth, Uwe
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The changing media representation of T. E. Lawrence and celebrity culture in Britain, 1919-1935 [PDF]
, 2015 This article presents a new analysis of representations of T. E. Lawrence to explore how the media created celebrity identities in interwar Britain. Examining his appearance in seventeen national newspapers and in newsreels between 1919 and 1935, it ...
Owens, Edward
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Data Shadows: Knowledge, Openness and Absence [PDF]
, 2016 This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from SAGE Publications via the DOI in this record.This editorial critically engages with the understanding of openness by attending to how notions of presence and absence come bundled
Davies, GF, Leonelli, S, Rappert, B
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The legitimation crisis of democracy: emancipatory politics, the environmental state and the glass ceiling to socio-ecological transformation [PDF]
, 2020 The democratic legitimation imperativeof the modern state has been conceptualised as the barrier that stops the environmental state from developing into a green or eco-state–and thus as the glass ceiling to a socio-ecological transformation of capitalist
Blühdorn, Ingolfur
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Globalization and Health, 2019 Background Sugar sweetened beverages (SSB) are a major source of sugar in the diet. Although trends in consumption vary across regions, in many countries, particularly LMICs, their consumption continues to increase.
Gary Jonas Fooks +3 more
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