Ignorance, Power and Harm: Agnotology and the Criminological Imagination (2018)Paperback - 2018, 21 February 2020

Ignorance, Power and Harm: Agnotology and the Criminological Imagination (2018)
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Part of Series
Critical Criminological Perspectives
Print Length
243 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Date Published
21 Feb 2020
ISBN-10
3030403696
ISBN-13
9783030403690

Description

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.

Product Details

Book Edition:
2018
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
NL
Date Published:
21 February 2020
Dimensions:
21.01 x 14.81 x 1.5 cm
ISBN-10:
3030403696
ISBN-13:
9783030403690
Language:
English
Location:
Cham
Pages:
243
Publisher:
Palgrave MacMillan
Weight:
344.73 gm

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