TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Strategic ignorance and global governance: an ecumenical approach to epistemologies of global power
JO  - British journal of sociology
A1  - Mallard, Grégoire
A1  - McGoey, Linsey
SP  - 884
EP  - 909
VL  - 69
IS  - 4
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.<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 0007-1315
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12504
ID  - ref1
ER  -