"Unknowns And Ways Of Not Knowing : Towards an understanding of non-knowledge in science, public, and policy". Uzunova, M. Ph.D. Thesis, Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht, Netherlands, September, 2012. 1
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This thesis is a discussion of the question words of not knowing: who does not know what and how do they not know it. It is also a discussion of issues at the public interface of science – expertise, democratic participation, and policy-relevant science – seen through the lens of non-knowledge. Shifting the attention to non-knowledge requires at least two uneasy departures from mainstream thinking; it requires the problematization and re-conceptualization of both the known-unknown nexus, and the science-policy nexus. Non-knowledge is presented in its full due as a social fact and with sensitivity to its complexity and socially constructed character. As such, it is a unique entry point into thinking about issues that have long been conceptualized in terms of knowledge, its authority and legitimacy, and those who have it. Focusing on non-knowledge reshuffles the entrenched lines of authority and the established ways of conceptualizing democratic expertise inscience policy, and points future inquiry into new directions.
@phdthesis{uzunova_unknowns_2012,
	address = {Maastricht, Netherlands},
	type = {({Master} of {Arts} in {European} {Studies} on {Society}, {Science} and {Technology})},
	title = {"{Unknowns} {And} {Ways} {Of} {Not} {Knowing} : {Towards} an understanding of non-knowledge in science, public, and policy"},
	abstract = {This thesis is a discussion of the question words of not knowing: who
does not know what and how do they not know it. It is also a discussion
of issues at the public interface of science – expertise, democratic
participation, and policy-relevant science – seen through the lens of
non-knowledge. Shifting the attention to non-knowledge requires at
least two uneasy departures from mainstream thinking; it requires the
problematization and re-conceptualization of both the known-unknown nexus, and the science-policy nexus. Non-knowledge is presented in its
full due as a social fact and with sensitivity to its complexity and
socially constructed character. As such, it is a unique entry point into
thinking about issues that have long been conceptualized in terms of
knowledge, its authority and legitimacy, and those who have it.
Focusing on non-knowledge reshuffles the entrenched lines of authority and the established ways of conceptualizing democratic expertise inscience policy, and points future inquiry into new directions.},
	language = {eng},
	school = {Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences},
	author = {Uzunova, Marija},
	month = sep,
	year = {2012},
	note = {1},
	keywords = {11 Ignorance and democracy, PRINTED (Fonds papier)},
}

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