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Ignorance, Power and Harm - Agnotology and The Criminological Imagination (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Ignorance, Power and Harm - Agnotology and The Criminological Imagination (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Critical Criminological Perspectives
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This book discusses the concept of 'agnosis' and its significance
for criminology through a series of case studies, contributing to
the expansion of the criminological imagination. Agnotology - the
study of the cultural production of ignorance, has primarily been
proposed as an analytical tool in the fields of science and
medicine. However, this book argues that it has significant
resonance for criminology and the social sciences given that
ignorance is a crucial means through which public acceptance of
serious and sometimes mass harms is achieved. The editors argue
that this phenomenon requires a systematic inquiry into ignorance
as an area of criminological study in its own right. Through case
studies on topics such as migrant detention, historical
institutionalised child abuse, imprisonment, environmental harm and
financial collapse, this book examines the construction of
ignorance, and the power dynamics that facilitate and shape that
construction in a range of different contexts. Furthermore, this
book addresses the relationship between ignorance and the
achievement of 'manufactured consent' to political and cultural
hegemony, acquiescence in its harmful consequences and the
deflection of responsibility for them.
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