« On n’est évidemment pas forcé de tout dire »

This article aims at showing the contributions of an approach in terms of ignorance for the sociology of administration. Starting from the case of inspectorates’ reports, it reverses the classical terms of the study of reports, which emphasize the knowledge produced as a tool of government, and is b...

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Main Author: Marion Demonteil
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Language:fra
Published: Société d'Anthropologie des Connaissances 2021-12-01
Series:Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/rac/23913
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description This article aims at showing the contributions of an approach in terms of ignorance for the sociology of administration. Starting from the case of inspectorates’ reports, it reverses the classical terms of the study of reports, which emphasize the knowledge produced as a tool of government, and is based on the hypothesis that this grey literature contributes to maintaining the established order less by what it reveals than by what it conceals. Following the career of the inspectorates’ reports, it highlights the everyday and pre-reflexive forms that characterize inspectoral production as well as its institutional conditions of possibility. By articulating a micro-ignorance and a macro-ignorance, the demonstration contributes to the analysis of the institutional virtues of unknowing.
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« On n’est évidemment pas forcé de tout dire »
Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances
strategic ignorance
sociologie of the administration
cultural policy
public inquiry
title « On n’est évidemment pas forcé de tout dire »
title_full « On n’est évidemment pas forcé de tout dire »
title_fullStr « On n’est évidemment pas forcé de tout dire »
title_full_unstemmed « On n’est évidemment pas forcé de tout dire »
title_short « On n’est évidemment pas forcé de tout dire »
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topic strategic ignorance
sociologie of the administration
cultural policy
public inquiry
url https://journals.openedition.org/rac/23913
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