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Ignorance

Strategic ignorance and knowledge resistance: Laurie Taylor explores the ways in which we refuse insights from others.

Strategic ignorance and knowledge resistance: Laurie Taylor talks to Mikael Klintman, Professor of Sociology at the University of Lund, Sweden about our capacity for resisting insights from others. At all levels of society, he argues, our world is becoming increasingly dominated by an inability, even refusal, to engage with others' ideas. It does not bode well either for democracy or for science. They're joined by Linsey McGoey, Professor of Sociology at the University at Essex, whose new study explores the use of deliberate and wilful ignorance by elites in pursuit of the retention of power - from News International's hacking scandal to the fire at Grenfell Tower.

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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28 minutes

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Mon 20 Jul 2020 00:15

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Knowledge Resistance: How We Avoid Insight from Others by Mikael Klintman

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

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  • Wed 15 Jul 2020 16:00
  • Mon 20 Jul 2020 00:15

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