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245	0	0	_aKnowledge, power and ignorance : _bthe Indian context / _ced by Bidhan Kanti Das, Gorky Chakraborty and Abhijit Guha.
250			_a1st.
260			_aAbingdon, Oxon ; _aNew York : _bRoutledge, _c2024.
263			_a2407
300			_axvii, 365 p. ; _c23 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
365			_b1295.00 _cRupees
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"What is knowledge, and ignorance? How is it decided? Do power and power relations influence this process? Does the spread of knowledge lead to more ignorance? Is ignorance socially produced? Is knowledge always socially contextualized? This book deals with these important questions on the interplay of knowledge, ignorance and power located in varied contexts in India. As systematic knowledge grows, so does the possibility of ignorance. Ignorance is a state which people attribute to others and is loaded with moral judgment. Thus, being underdeveloped often 'implies a kind of stupidity or failure'. This volume seeks to be premised in a framework where ignorance is understood as being a socially produced and maintained phenomenon, where the ways of knowing and not knowing are interdependent. It is a novel attempt for an academic re-orientation of the Knowledge-Ignorance paradigm through a process of re-interpretation of the bounded purview attached with the existing epistemological understandings. It focuses on concrete case studies, often with an ethnographic stint. The volume critically looks at various aspects: Epistemological Issues; Understanding Community Perspectives and the State; Natural Resources, Power and Ignorance; Media and Production of Non-Knowledge; and other emerging areas. Each essay bears a striking similarity - that of understanding the complex processes and dynamics of the production of ignorance in a field of commonly held beliefs of 'knowledge' - be it scientific, societal, religious, magical or political - through the overarching realm of power. This interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to a cross-section of academics and students of sociology, social anthropology, political science, human geography, history, public policy and development studies"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aPower (Social sciences) _zIndia. _939897
650		0	_aKnowledge, Theory of _zIndia. _939898
650		0	_aIgnorance (Theory of knowledge) _939899
653			_aPhilosophy
700	1		_aDas, Bidhan Kanti. _eeditor _918545
700	1		_aChakraborty, Gorky. _eeditor _939900
700	1		_aGuha, Abhijit. _eeditor _939901
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _tKnowledge, power and ignorance _dAbingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 _z9781003485704 _w(DLC) 2024001275
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