Pioneering study and research group on failure, ignorance and future
17 01 2022
Why do recent crises fail to bring meaningful change? Why do we often see replication of the regimes of ignorance, inefficient knowledge and expertise practices? How does ignorance and situation of crises interact with contemporary regimes of failure? And what is the importance of future thinking for redefining failure and ignorance in a manner that promotes social emancipation and inclusion?
Innovative research projects, academic networking, and global conversations on these terrains are currently carried with the coordination and participation of researchers from University of Warsaw (in particular Faculty of Applied Social Sciences and Resocialisation and Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology). These explorations are organized around three major themes: failure, ignorance, and future. They are interactional, genealogical and interdisciplinary. Having initially explored the complex dynamics of the European refugee crises. And now moved to Polish policy domains and the unravelling of global and neocolonial dimensions of regimes of failure and ignorance in the making.
Within the project co-financed from Action III.3.2. “Promotion of scientific research in the public domain” of the IDUB Programme, three videos have been produced:
Adriana Mica (University of Warsaw), Anna Horolets (University of Warsaw), Mikołaj Pawlak (University of Warsaw) and Paweł Kubicki (Warsaw School of Economics) present their findings based on their book Ignorance and Change: Anticipatory Knowledge and the European Union Crisis (Routledge 2020). The three short movies prefigure current research on critical studies of failure conducted by these authors, as well as their complex work on The Routledge International Handbook of Failure (Routledge, final stage of preparation).
For more information: http://refugee-crisis.uw.edu.pl/
The author of the illustrations is Daniel Wisniewski.