The Pandemic as we Know It: A policy studies perspective on ignorance and nonknowledge in COVID-19 governance 1. Paul, K. T. & Haddad, C. In Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies. Routledge, 2 edition, 2022. Num Pages: 13
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Values of knowledge, truth and evidence typically underpin scholarly discourses on policymaking. This strong focus on knowledge has, however, concealed the key role of ignorance and agnotology in policy. To address this omission, this chapter introduces a policy studies perspective to the study of ignorance. We capture the role of ignorance as a constitutive feature of policymaking rather than as something residual and external to it. Advocating for a ‘symmetrical’ research perspective to examining knowledge and ignorance in the policy process, we introduce an approach to policy analysis grounded in ‘agnoto-epistemological sensibilities’. Using the COVID-19 crisis as a focal point, we explore and illustrate different mechanisms of how ignorance is mobilized and deployed at different sites and scales in pandemic policymaking. In doing so, we build on established concepts of ‘strategic ignorance’, but also provide additional illustrations of less intentional, but equally political forms of ignorance practices.
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	abstract = {Values of knowledge, truth and evidence typically underpin scholarly discourses on policymaking. This strong focus on knowledge has, however, concealed the key role of ignorance and agnotology in policy. To address this omission, this chapter introduces a policy studies perspective to the study of ignorance. We capture the role of ignorance as a constitutive feature of policymaking rather than as something residual and external to it. Advocating for a ‘symmetrical’ research perspective to examining knowledge and ignorance in the policy process, we introduce an approach to policy analysis grounded in ‘agnoto-epistemological sensibilities’. Using the COVID-19 crisis as a focal point, we explore and illustrate different mechanisms of how ignorance is mobilized and deployed at different sites and scales in pandemic policymaking. In doing so, we build on established concepts of ‘strategic ignorance’, but also provide additional illustrations of less intentional, but equally political forms of ignorance practices.},
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