The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World
Autor Linsey McGoeyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 sep 2019
A bold, wide-ranging exploration of the relationship between ignorance and power in the modern age, from debates over colonial power and economic rent-seeking in the 18th and 19th centuries to the legal defences of today, The Unknowers shows that strategic ignorance has not only long been an inherent part of modern power and big business, but also that true power lies in the ability to convince others of where the boundary between ignorance and knowledge lies.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781780326368
ISBN-10: 178032636X
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 152 x 222 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Zed Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 178032636X
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 152 x 222 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Zed Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Cuprins
Introduction: The Power to Ignore
1. Narrow History
2. Seeing Ignorance Differently
3. Elite Agnotologists
4. The Murdoch Strategy
5. Suspicious Attention
6. Know-it-all Epistocrats
7. Conflict Blindness
8. Masters of Industry, Masters of ignorance
9. The Ostrich Instruction
10. Good Experts
11. The Pretense of Ignorance
Conclusion: The Great Enlargement
1. Narrow History
2. Seeing Ignorance Differently
3. Elite Agnotologists
4. The Murdoch Strategy
5. Suspicious Attention
6. Know-it-all Epistocrats
7. Conflict Blindness
8. Masters of Industry, Masters of ignorance
9. The Ostrich Instruction
10. Good Experts
11. The Pretense of Ignorance
Conclusion: The Great Enlargement
Recenzii
Ours is an era where truth-telling, leadership and authority have an increasingly feeble relationship. Linsey McGoey picks apart how strategic ignorance is a dastardly ploy that enables society's elites to avoid responsibility for their rampant pursuit of self-interest. Essential if we are to resist what is one of the most dangerous tendencies of the new normal in global politics.
i>'The Unknowers is a landmark study of the myriad ways in which ignorance infuses our social, political and economic lives. Linsey McGoey deftly weaves social thought and empirical analysis to rethink how the power to draw the boundaries between knowledge and ignorance can radically transform society and democracy.
What is most compelling about this book are the ways in which McGoey builds bridges between knowledge and ignorance practices, on the one hand, and processes of political and economic domination, on the other.
i>'The Unknowers is a fascinating exploration of the many ways in which our societies are built on strategic lack of knowledge.
In this timely book, McGoey tells us how deliberate and willful ignorance are used in politics, law, media, health and especially economics, to get and keep power. And she tells us what we might do about it.
The definitive book for our times on what makes strategic ignorance so 'strategic' in the hands of the powerful. If the truth can set us free, then it is only once we have taken back ignorance.
This is McGoey at her absolute best. And what a tour de force The Unknowers is. Each chapter weaves its way backward and forward between events and evidence, past and future making, to offer original insights into how strategic ignorance and deliberate uncertainty keep those at the top in power.
i>'The Unknowers is a landmark study of the myriad ways in which ignorance infuses our social, political and economic lives. Linsey McGoey deftly weaves social thought and empirical analysis to rethink how the power to draw the boundaries between knowledge and ignorance can radically transform society and democracy.
What is most compelling about this book are the ways in which McGoey builds bridges between knowledge and ignorance practices, on the one hand, and processes of political and economic domination, on the other.
i>'The Unknowers is a fascinating exploration of the many ways in which our societies are built on strategic lack of knowledge.
In this timely book, McGoey tells us how deliberate and willful ignorance are used in politics, law, media, health and especially economics, to get and keep power. And she tells us what we might do about it.
The definitive book for our times on what makes strategic ignorance so 'strategic' in the hands of the powerful. If the truth can set us free, then it is only once we have taken back ignorance.
This is McGoey at her absolute best. And what a tour de force The Unknowers is. Each chapter weaves its way backward and forward between events and evidence, past and future making, to offer original insights into how strategic ignorance and deliberate uncertainty keep those at the top in power.
Notă biografică
Linsey McGoey is full Professor of Sociology, University of Essex, UK, where she directs the Centre for Research in Economic Sociology and Innovation (CRESI). She has held visiting positions at LSE and Sciences Po, and is on the Advisory Board of the Centre for Study of Contemporary Solidarity, University of Vienna. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, Jacobin, Fortune, Open Democracy, and the Spectator.
Linsey McGoey is a writer and sociologist based in the United Kingdom. She has written for the Guardian, The Times, the Spectator, Jacobin and Fortune, is author of No Such Thing as a Free Gift (2015) and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Ignorance Studies (2015). She is currently a Reader in Sociology at the University of Essex.