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ASA Section - On the Bureaucratic Production of Knowledge Gaps: Organizing Ignorance in Post-Katrina New Orleans

by Emily Rauscher — last modified 2007-08-07 15:34

Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology at the ASA Annual Conference

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When 2007-08-11
from 10:30 to 12:10
Where New York City
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Session Organizer: Scott Frickel (Tulane University) 
Presider: Scott Frickel (Tulane University) 
On the Bureaucratic Production of Knowledge Gaps: Organizing Ignorance in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Scott Frickel (Tulane University)
Ignorance and the Unexpected: Contours of a Sociology of Surprises
Matthias Gross (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, UFZ)
Undone Science, Knowledge Gaps, and Counter-Expertise: An Alternative Approach to the Public Understanding of Science
David J. Hess (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Discussant: Andrew Lakoff (UC San Diego) 
Abstract:
Knowledge gaps are an inherent feature of knowledge systems, but their distribution is not random. This panel explores the ways in which the absence of knowledge is socially and systematically produced as both intended and unintended outcomes of institutionalization processes in the sciences and related domains.