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Justice in the Age of Agnosis

Socio-Legal Explorations of Denial, Deception, and Doubt

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  • Jun 2024

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Editors:
  1. James Gacek

    1. Department of Justice Studies, University of Regina, Regina, Canada

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  2. Richard Jochelson

    1. Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

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  • Examines sources of oppression and the role of ignorance and where it might stem from
  • Draws together scholars from the social sciences broadly
  • Asks 'is ignorance bliss'?

Part of the book series: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies (PSLS)

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Keywords

  • Governance
  • Law and society
  • Victimization
  • State power
  • Political sociology
  • Police power
  • Crimes of the powerful
  • Power and harm

About this book

This book seeks to further the understanding of the human experience of coerced and forced ignorance on social, human rights and criminal justice related topics, drawing together scholars from multiple, disciplinary fronts. It argues that people in our social world are forced or coerced through either implicatory or interpretive denial that is normalized through specific cultural and social mechanisms by which we refer to this as non-knowledge or agnosis. There has also been a lack of scholarship which examines how human victimization and power intersects by and through the systematic orchestration of forced ignorance and doubt upon daily human life. This book's focus is an examination of the ways in which people find themselves in social spaces without empirical clarity and understand that absence as satisfaction, stability, or perhaps even pleasure. It discusses a range of topics, including for example people's sense of relative safety, despite empirical realities suggesting otherwise. This book seeks to make visible the role of ignorance in governing society, highlighting how the late modern human experience in a post-World War II human rights era subsumes, subverts, and sublimates the complex relationship between knowledge and denial; the empirical gulf between knowledge and resistance may indeed breed complicit bliss.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Justice Studies, University of Regina, Regina, Canada

    James Gacek

  • Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

    Richard Jochelson

About the editors

James Gacek is Associate Professor in the Department of Justice Studies at the University of Regina, Canada.

Richard Jochelson is Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba, Canada.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Justice in the Age of Agnosis

  • Book Subtitle: Socio-Legal Explorations of Denial, Deception, and Doubt

  • Editors: James Gacek, Richard Jochelson

  • Series Title: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54353-1Due: 04 July 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54356-2Due: 04 July 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-54354-8Due: 04 July 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2947-9274

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-9282

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 242

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations

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