Neznanje kao mnoštvo: feministički pristupi epistemologijama neznanja
Ignorance as Plurality: Feminist Approaches to Epistemologies of Ignorance

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on critical consideration of the various categorizations of the concept of ignorance, with a specific reflection upon feminist categorizations of this concept. During the last ten years, an independent area of inquiry has been developed which goes by the name of agnotology or the epistemologies of ignorance. Its object of inquiry is the concept of ignorance, which was generally seen in the canonical epistemology as the negation of knowledge, deficient knowledge, or not-yet knowledge. Therefore, the primary challenge that agnotology faces is to try to define and categorize ignorance. The paper presents an analysis of ignorance as an autonomous concept, which is, like knowledge, socially situated, and which, besides maintaining the oppressive system, can also serve as a means of resistance.

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