EAN: 9783319973425

IGNORANCE POWER AND HARM GEBUNDEN

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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