Barton / Davis Ignorance, Power and Harm

Agnotology and The Criminological Imagination
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-97343-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 251 Seiten

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This book discusses the concept of 'agnosis' and its significance for criminology through a series of case studies, contributing to the expansion of the criminological imagination. Agnotology - the study of the cultural production of ignorance, has primarily been proposed as an analytical tool in the fields of science and medicine. However, this book argues that it has significant resonance for criminology and the social sciences given that ignorance is a crucial means through which public acceptance of serious and sometimes mass harms is achieved. The editors argue that this phenomenon requires a systematic inquiry into ignorance as an area of criminological study in its own right.  Through case studies on topics such as migrant detention, historical institutionalised child abuse, imprisonment, environmental harm and financial collapse, this book examines the construction of ignorance, and the power dynamics that facilitate and shape that construction in a range of different contexts. Furthermore, this book addresses the relationship between ignorance and the achievement of 'manufactured consent' to political and cultural hegemony, acquiescence in its harmful consequences and the deflection of responsibility for them.  
 

Alana Barton is Reader in Criminology at Edge Hill University. She has previously worked at the University of Central Lancashire and Liverpool John Moores University. Alana is the author of Fragile Moralities and Dangerous Sexualities (Ashgate, 2005) and co-editor of Expanding the Criminological Imagination (Willan, 2007).  Howard Davis is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Edge Hill University. He had a previous career as a social worker, working in the fields of child protection, trauma and bereavement. He has published in a range of journals including the British Journal of Social Work, Disasters, and the British Journal of Criminology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barton, Alana

Davis, Howard

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgements;6
2;Contents;7
3;Notes on Contributors;9
4;List of Figures;13
5;List of Tables;14
6;1: Introduction;15
6.1;References;24
7;2: Agnotology and the Criminological Imagination;27
7.1;Introduction;27
7.2;Ignorance, Ignoring and Criminology;29
7.2.1;States and Acts of Ignorance;29
7.2.2;Manufacturing Ignorance;31
7.3;Asbestos: A Century of Corporate Killing;33
7.4;The Holocaust: Ignorance, Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide;37
7.5;Conclusion: Towards a Zemiological Agnotology;42
7.6;References;45
8;3: Counterinsurgency, Empire and Ignorance;50
8.1;Introduction: Counterinsurgency and Ignorance;50
8.2;Agnotology, Race and the Violence of Empire;52
8.3;Ignorance and Myths of Counterinsurgency Harm;54
8.4;Counterinsurgency, Knowledge Warfare and Militarised Ignorance;58
8.5;Counterinsurgency, Ignorance and Social Science;61
8.6;Conclusion: (Post-) Empire, Violence and Ignorance;66
8.7;References;67
9;4: The Ideology and Mechanics of Ignorance: Child Abuse in Ireland 1922–1973;73
9.1;Independent Ireland, Post-colonial Insecurity, Identity and the Church;77
9.1.1;A Broken Promise;82
9.1.2;The Mechanics of Ignorance;83
9.1.2.1;Industrial and Reformatory Schools;87
9.2;Conclusions;92
9.3;References;94
9.3.1;Archival Sources;97
10;5: Framing the Crisis: Private Capital to the Rescue;98
10.1;Introduction;98
10.2;Crisis, Whose Crisis? Blames, Frames and Morality Plays;100
10.2.1;Identifying Blameworthy Subjects;102
10.2.2;Silencing Blame Discourses;108
10.2.3;Blaming Capitalism?;111
10.3;Discussion;113
10.4;References;117
11;6: Managing Ignorance About M?ori Imprisonment;123
11.1;Introduction;123
11.2;Agnosis;125
11.3;Colonisation and the Development of Carceral Control;127
11.4;Constructing M?ori Deficit and Delinquency;130
11.5;Manufacturing Cultural Consciousness;132
11.6;Diverting Responsibility;136
11.7;Conclusion: M?ori Resistance to Agnosis;139
11.8;References;143
12;7: Border (Mis)Management, Ignorance and Denial;149
12.1;Introduction;149
12.2;Feigning Ignorance: Agnotology at the British Border;151
12.3;Cushioning the Blow: The UK’s Dependence on Proximity and Physical Distance;152
12.4;What You Don’t See Won’t Haunt You: Agnosis Through Legislatively Orchestrated Invisibility;154
12.4.1;Evading Accountability, Ignoring the Indefensible;158
12.5;Back in Britain: Orchestrated Agnosis to Extend Invisibility;161
12.6;Isolation as a Means to Ignore;163
12.7;Conclusion: Britain as the ‘Bystander State’?;165
12.8;References;167
13;8: Climate Change Denial: ‘Making Ignorance Great Again’;173
13.1;Introduction;173
13.2;Power and Platonic Ignorance;176
13.3;Climate Change Denial and Knowledge Politics;179
13.4;Climate Change and Greening the Criminological Agenda;183
13.5;Conclusion;188
13.6;References;189
14;9: Spectacular Law and Order: Photography, Social Harm, and the Production of Ignorance;198
14.1;Introduction: Visual Criminology and the Politics of Ignorance;198
14.2;This-Has-Been: A Brief History of Photography Criticism;202
14.3;Spectacular Law and Order;207
14.4;Crime Photography: ‘Pensive Images’?;212
14.5;Conclusion;216
14.6;References;217
15;10: Penal Agnosis and Historical Denial: Problematising ‘Common Sense’ Understandings of Prison Officers and Violence in Prison;221
15.1;Constructing the Narrative;223
15.2;Prison Safety and Reform;227
15.2.1;Our Dedicated and Brave Staff;228
15.2.2;Physical Violence and Pathologised Prisoners;232
15.2.3;Carnage, Bloodbaths and Institutionally Structured Violence;238
15.3;Contextualising the Past: Beyond Agnosis, Silencing and Denial;241
15.4;References;243
16;Index;247