This timely series brings together cutting-edge scholarship in the emergent field of studies on the flipside of knowledge. It addresses the blossoming interest – within an increasing number of disciplines – in the uses and deployment of strategic not knowing, the right to nonknowledge, of forgetting, of producing and keeping secrets.
From classical perspectives on the unknown to the most recent analyses in theology, brain research, decision making, economics, political science, ethnic discrimination and racism studies, feminist theory, post-colonial studies, and science and technology studies, this interdisciplinary series will serve as an indispensable resource for both students and scholars. The Routledge Research in Ignorance Studies series places the study of ignorance in historical and interdisciplinary context.
Series editors:
Matthias Gross is Professor and Head of the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
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Linsey McGoey is Professor in Sociology and Director of the Centre for Economic Sociology and Innovation (CRESI) at the University of Essex, UK
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Michael Smithson is a Professor in the Research School of Psychology at The Australian National University, Australia
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Editorial board:
Claudia Aradau, King’s College
Joanna Kempner, Rutgers
Charles Mills, CUNY Graduate Center
John Quiggin, University of Queensland
Ilya Somin, George Mason
Tom Slater, University of Edinburgh
Routledge contact:
Emily Briggs (Commissioning Editor) – [email protected]
By Adriana Mica, Anna Horolets, Mikołaj Pawlak, Paweł Kubicki
May 30, 2022
Ignorance and Change analyses the European refugee crisis of 2015–2016 from the perspective of ignorance studies showing how the media, decision-makers and academics engaged in the projection and reification of the future in relation to the crisis, the asylum system, and the solutions that were ...
By Nora Stel
February 01, 2022
Lebanon hosts the highest number of refugees per capita worldwide and is central to European policies of outsourcing migration management. Hybrid Political Order and the Politics of Uncertainty is the first book to critically and comprehensively explore the parallels between the country’s ...
By Samantha Vanderslott
September 15, 2021
Attention and Responsibility in Global Health shows the construction of health through what is neglected and how the label of neglect is used to make the case that a shift in attitudes towards tropical diseases is based on changing policy practices of health and disease. Tropical diseases have ...
By Adriana Mica
July 03, 2018
Sociology of unintended consequences is commonly depicted as a framework for understanding the outcomes that run counter to the initial intentions of social actors because of factors such as ignorance, error and complexity. This conventional approach, however, is now undergoing change under the ...
