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The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World
Linsey McGoey
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Description for The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World
paperback. A highly original and counter-intuitive investigation of how ignorance is employed for corporate gain and political power. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JPA; KCP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Deliberate ignorance has been known as the ‘Ostrich Instruction’ in law courts since the 1860s. It illustrates a recurring pattern in history in which figureheads for major companies, political leaders and industry bigwigs plead ignorance to avoid culpability. So why do so many figures at the top still get away with it when disasters on their watch damage so many people’s lives? Does the idea that knowledge is power still apply in today’s post-truth world? 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 ... Read more
Deliberate ignorance has been known as the ‘Ostrich Instruction’ in law courts since the 1860s. It illustrates a recurring pattern in history in which figureheads for major companies, political leaders and industry bigwigs plead ignorance to avoid culpability. So why do so many figures at the top still get away with it when disasters on their watch damage so many people’s lives? Does the idea that knowledge is power still apply in today’s post-truth world? 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Zed Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780326351
SKU
9781780326351
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About Linsey McGoey
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World
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.
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