TY  - GEN
AB  - How can we account for the role of ignorance and knowledge in global governance? It is a contention of earlier scholarship in international relations and political sociology that knowledge production is tightly coupled with rational action – regardless of whether knowledge widely influences different stakeholders or not. This scholarship equally tends to assume an ignorance-knowledge binary relationship that associates ignorance with powerlessness and knowledge with power. This is a view we dispute. Calling for a new approach to the study of ignorance and knowledge in international politics, our article builds on research from ignorance studies, science and technology studies and critical race theory to derive a novel typology of epistemologies of power in which truth and ignorance are defined and combined in a plurality of ways. Approaching differing epistemologies of power in the transnational realm in a general or 'ecumenical' manner, we identify weaknesses in earlier approaches to the study of knowledge production in global affairs, and present four new concepts: 'factual determinism', 'cynical realism', 'unseeing proceduralism' and 'hopeful constructivism'. Through this framework, our article calls for greater recognition of the constitutive role that ignorance plays in operations of power on a global scale.
AU  - Mallard, Grégoire
AU  - McGoey, Linsey
DA  - 2018
DO  - 10.1111/1468-4446.12504
DO  - doi
ID  - 296726
L1  - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/296726/files/Mallard_et_al-2018-The_British_Journal_of_Sociology.pdf
L2  - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/296726/files/Mallard_et_al-2018-The_British_Journal_of_Sociology.pdf
L4  - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/296726/files/Mallard_et_al-2018-The_British_Journal_of_Sociology.pdf
LK  - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/296726/files/Mallard_et_al-2018-The_British_Journal_of_Sociology.pdf
N2  - How can we account for the role of ignorance and knowledge in global governance? It is a contention of earlier scholarship in international relations and political sociology that knowledge production is tightly coupled with rational action – regardless of whether knowledge widely influences different stakeholders or not. This scholarship equally tends to assume an ignorance-knowledge binary relationship that associates ignorance with powerlessness and knowledge with power. This is a view we dispute. Calling for a new approach to the study of ignorance and knowledge in international politics, our article builds on research from ignorance studies, science and technology studies and critical race theory to derive a novel typology of epistemologies of power in which truth and ignorance are defined and combined in a plurality of ways. Approaching differing epistemologies of power in the transnational realm in a general or 'ecumenical' manner, we identify weaknesses in earlier approaches to the study of knowledge production in global affairs, and present four new concepts: 'factual determinism', 'cynical realism', 'unseeing proceduralism' and 'hopeful constructivism'. Through this framework, our article calls for greater recognition of the constitutive role that ignorance plays in operations of power on a global scale.
PY  - 2018
T1  - Strategic ignorance and global governancean ecumenical approach to epistemologies of global power
TI  - Strategic ignorance and global governancean ecumenical approach to epistemologies of global power
UR  - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/296726/files/Mallard_et_al-2018-The_British_Journal_of_Sociology.pdf
Y1  - 2018
ER  -