General Information

Author/Creator

McGoey, Linsey, editor.

Language

English.

Published

London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.

Physical Description

x, 131 p. ; 24 cm.

Subjects

Subject

Ignorance (Theory of knowledge) > Social aspects.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

edited by Linsey McGoey.

Note

Chapters originally published in Economy and Society, vol. 41, issue 1 (February 2012).

Content

Linsey McGoey: Strategic unknowns: towards a sociology of ignorance -- Carol A. Heimer: Inert facts and the illusion of knowledge: strategic uses of ignorance in HIV clinics -- Brian Rappert: States of ignorance: the unmaking and remaking of death tolls -- William Davis and Linsey McGoey: Rationalities of ignorance: on financial crisis and the ambivalence of neo-liberal epistemology -- Jacqueline Best: Bureaucratic ambiguity -- Steve Rayner: Uncomfortable knowledge: the social construction of ignorance in science and envirenmental policy discourses.

ISBN

9781138779679

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	149 MCG		Reference	-

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