Basu, Sudeep (2024) Reimagining ignorance and forced migration connections and possibilities: connections and possibilities. In: Knowledge, Power and Ignorance: The Indian Context. Taylor and Francis, pp. 19-30. ISBN 9781032495590
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Shared understandings, which in many cases are thought of as a given in collaborative research, can be problematized using the ignorance trope to find out the socialities, elisions, forgetting, non-said and hegemonies at work in the objectifying processes of knowledge production and consumption in an increasingly informatized world. This enables a rethink of what constitutes the discursive field of knowledge in which the expert’s construction of knowledge is counted as the methodological and practical norm. The ensuing disregard of ignorance distorts our understanding of the ontology and episteme of shared/non-shared social facts in a communicative context of meaning. This has implications, for instance, in forced migration emergencies for which the concerns and desires of the displaced vis-à-vis others need to be accounted for through the prism of ignorance which the refugees themselves actively use for survival in particular lifeworlds. The analytics of ignorance in a preliminary way aids us in thinking through these paradoxes and the realm of ‘non-knowledge’ which is experienced by persons and groups, differently situated in social spaces and time. I would reflexively make sense of these refugee lifeworlds, by particularly scrutinizing the communicative moments with my Tibetan forced migrant interlocutors. What gets disclosed is a discursive reality which gestures towards our differential statuses, our future stakes in the flux of contemporary living.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Bidhan Kanti Das, Gorky. |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JZ International relations J Political Science G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Aug 2024 23:39 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Sep 2024 20:15 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/124571 |
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