New release: Regimes of Ignorance. Edited by Roy Dilley and Thomas G. Kirsch
11. November 2015
Anthropological Perspectives on the Production and Reproduction of Non-Knowledge
New York/Oxford: Berghahn 2015
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Non-knowledge should not be simply regarded as the opposite of knowledge, but as complementary to it: each derives its character and meaning from the other and from their interaction. Knowledge does not colonize the space of ignorance in the progressive march of science; rather, knowledge and ignorance are mutually shaped in social and political domains of partial, shifting, and temporal relationships.
This volume’s ethnographic analyses provide a theoretical frame through which to consider the production and reproduction of ignorance, non-knowledge, and secrecy, as well as the wider implications these ideas have for anthropology and related disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. (publisher)
Roy Dilley is Professor of Social Anthropology at University of St Andrews. Between October 2011 and September 2012, he was a ellow of the Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz.
Thomas G. Kirsch is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology and principal investigator of the Center of Excellence “Cultural Foundations of Social Integration” at University of Konstanz.
This book is based on research conducted within the guiding topic “Non-Knowledge” at the Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz 2011/2012.