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Why do people and groups ignore, deny and resist knowledge about society's many problems? In a world of 'alternative facts', 'fake news’ that some believe could be remedied by ‘factfulness’, the question has never been more pressing. After years of ideologically polarised debates on this topic, the book seeks to further advance our understanding of the phenomenon of knowledge resistance by integrating insights from the social, economic and evolutionary sciences. It identifies simplistic views in public and scholarly debates about what facts, knowledge and human motivations are and what 'rational' use of information actually means. The examples used include controversies about nature-nurture, climate change, gender roles, vaccination, genetically modified food and artificial intelligence. Drawing on cutting-edge scholarship as well as personal experiences of culture clashes, the book is aimed at the general, educated public as well as students and scholars interested in the interface of human motivation and the urgent social problems of today.
Belief and doubt. --- Fake news --- Insight. --- Knowledge, Sociology of. --- Social aspects. --- Fact resistance. --- Ignorance studies. --- Knowledge resistance. --- climate change. --- denial. --- epistemic uncertainty. --- fact resistance. --- fake news. --- ignorance studies. --- knowledge resistance. --- knowledge tribes. --- strategic ignorance. --- vaccination.
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Social practice theories help to challenge the often hidden paradigms, worldviews, and values at the basis of many unsustainable practices. Discourses and their boundaries define what is seen as possible, as well as the range of issues and their solutions. By exploring the connections between practices and discourses, Minna Kanerva develops a conceptual approach enabling purposive change in unsustainable social practices. Radical transformation towards new meatways is arguably necessary, yet complex psychological, ideological, and power-related mechanisms currently inhibit change.
Food habits. --- Social change. --- Sustainable living. --- Vegetarianism. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. --- Agency. --- Co-responsibility. --- Cultured Meat. --- Democracy. --- Discourse. --- Environmental Policy. --- Flexitarianism. --- Food Studies. --- Food. --- Insects. --- Nature. --- Plant-based Meat. --- Political Science. --- Political Theory. --- Politics. --- Social Practice Theories. --- Strategic Ignorance. --- Sustainability. --- Values. --- Meatless meals --- Vegetarian diet --- Diet --- Ecological living --- Green living --- Living, Sustainable --- Alternative lifestyles --- Environmentalism --- Green movement --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Eating --- Food customs --- Foodways --- Human beings --- Habit --- Manners and customs --- Nutrition --- Oral habits --- Food habits --- Sustainability Transformation; Social Practice Theories; Discourse; Values; Strategic Ignorance; Agency; Co-responsibility; Flexitarianism; Cultured Meat; Plant-based Meat; Insects; Food; Food Studies; Nature; Politics; Political Theory; Democracy; Environmental Policy; Sustainability; Political Science
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An original and provocative exploration of our capacity to ignore what is inconvenient or traumaticIgnorance, whether passive or active, conscious or unconscious, has always been a part of the human condition, Renata Salecl argues. What has changed in our post-truth, postindustrial world is that we often feel overwhelmed by the constant flood of information and misinformation. It sometimes seems impossible to differentiate between truth and falsehood and, as a result, there has been a backlash against the idea of expertise, and a rise in the number of people actively choosing not to know. The dangers of this are obvious, but Salecl challenges our assumptions, arguing that there may also be a positive side to ignorance, and that by addressing the role of ignorance in society, we may also be able to reclaim the role of knowledge.Drawing on philosophy, social and psychoanalytic theory, popular culture, and her own experience, Salecl explores how the passion for ignorance plays out in many different aspects of life today, from love, illness, trauma, and the fear of failure to genetics, forensic science, big data, and the incel movement—and she concludes that ignorance is a complex phenomenon that can, on occasion, benefit individuals and society as a whole.The result is a fascinating investigation of how the knowledge economy became an ignorance economy, what it means for us, and what it tells us about the world today.
Ignorance (Theory of knowledge) --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Skepticism --- Social aspects. --- DNA. --- Jacques Lacan. --- Nancy Tuana. --- Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies. --- Stuart Firestein. --- Susie Orbach. --- anti vaxxers. --- choosing to be ignorant. --- climate denial. --- climate deniers. --- denial of illness. --- denial. --- doctor patient relationship. --- fake news. --- fear of being ignored. --- ignorance studies. --- ignoring infidelity. --- information overload. --- involuntary celibacy. --- involuntary celibates. --- love is blind. --- neuroscience. --- protective ignorance. --- psychoanalysis. --- romantic relationships. --- strategic ignorance. --- willful ignorance. --- Ignorance (Theory of knowledge). --- Aggression. --- Analogy. --- Anxiety. --- Attitude change. --- Big data. --- Bosnian War. --- Brain damage. --- Buddhism. --- Burial. --- Cardiovascular disease. --- Cognition. --- Consent. --- Conspiracy theory. --- Covid-19. --- Criticism. --- Daphne du Maurier. --- Death anxiety (psychology). --- Death. --- Determination. --- Disability. --- Disease. --- Disgust. --- Dishonesty. --- Distrust. --- Donor. --- Emerging technologies. --- Empty tomb. --- Ethnic cleansing. --- Expert. --- Explanation. --- Fake news. --- Father. --- Feeling. --- Fraud. --- Funding. --- Genetic predisposition. --- Genetic testing. --- Geneticist. --- Grandparent. --- Grief. --- Hatred. --- Heart failure. --- His Family. --- Holocaust denial. --- Ideology. --- Ileus. --- Impossibility. --- Impostor syndrome. --- Informed consent. --- International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. --- Jacques-Alain Miller. --- Jouissance. --- Knowledge economy. --- Mental disorder. --- My Cousin Rachel. --- Neurosurgery. --- Nudity. --- Obstacle. --- Online community. --- Online dating service. --- Paralysis. --- Pavlok. --- Phenomenon. --- Physician. --- Plagiarism. --- Promiscuity. --- Psychiatric hospital. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Psychologist. --- Refugee. --- Regimen. --- Repressed memory. --- Result. --- Routledge. --- Science. --- Scientist. --- Seduction community. --- Self-deception. --- Self-help. --- Self-love. --- Sexual intercourse. --- Shame. --- Skepticism. --- Sperm bank. --- Subjectivity. --- Suffering. --- Surveillance. --- Symptom. --- Technology. --- Terminal illness. --- Thought. --- Truancy. --- Uncertainty. --- Vaccination. --- Violence against women. --- Violent crime. --- War crime. --- Well-being. --- Wrongful birth.
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