The introduction to this special issue starts with a brief thematisation of the key theoretical
interventions in the anthropology of waste in order to situate our own contribution. We follow …

ABSTRACT I use the concept of agnotology to examine the way in which the UK government
diverted the public gaze from lack of equipment and hidden privatization by claiming to …

Ignorance and Change analyses the European refugee crisis of 2015–2016 from the
perspective of ignorance studies showing how the media, decision-makers and academics …

Human geographers investigating socio-environmental change in resource frontiers often
encounter illicit activities occurring alongside the licit processes they study. These …

This article explores the rationalities and mechanisms of outsourcing public employment
service activation casework. We draw on textual and documentary data from minutes of …

Quantitative evidence and metrics play a central role in contemporary global health.
Mortality statistics, for example, are considered essential for improving health in the global …

With the Covid-19 outbreak the request for useful knowledge to inform policy measures
rapidly escalated. On the verge of infodemics, vaccine hesitancy and conspiracy theories …

In the contemporary era of neoliberal incarceration, when marginalized populations are
considered surplus (Gilmore in Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in …

This chapter explores the socio-cultural production of ignorance and denial in the context of
how the ideology of “intensive motherhood” reinforces unequal unpaid labour burdens …

The book considers the nature, form, and application of agnotology and ignorance
production. The concepts of agnotology and ignorance are explored and expanded. The …