The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World by McGoey, Linsey

The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781780326351)

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The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World by McGoey, Linsey

The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World

$21.95
The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World by McGoey, Linsey

The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World

$21.95
Format: Paperback
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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 the 18th and 19th centuries to the legal defences of today, The Unknowers shows that strategic ignorance has not only long been an inherent part of modern power and big business, but also that true power lies in the ability to convince others of where the boundary between ignorance and knowledge lies.

Author: Linsey McGoey
ISBN-10: 1780326351
ISBN-13: 9781780326351
Publisher: Zed Books
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2019
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 1.10d
By Linsey McGoey
By Linsey McGoey
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Linsey McGoey is a writer and sociologist based in the United Kingdom. She has written for the Guardian, The Times, the Spectator, Jacobin and Fortune, is author of No Such Thing as a Free Gift (2015) and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Ignorance Studies (2015). She is currently a Reader in Sociology at the University of Essex, UK.
Linsey McGoey is a writer and sociologist based in the United Kingdom. She has written for the Guardian, The Times, the Spectator, Jacobin and Fortune, is author of No Such Thing as a Free Gift (2015) and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Ignorance Studies (2015). She is currently a Reader in Sociology at the University of Essex.

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