Knowledge and Society
Power
The capacity to shape what counts as knowledge, who is heard, and what gets funded, published or taught. Power is not only censorship; setting an agenda, controlling a platform or being granted authority all change the knowledge that a community ends up with.
Who controls knowledge and its ethical weight. These concepts ask who decides what counts, who benefits, and what knowing something obliges you to do.
Situations that raise power
All 43 situationsReal cases a class can argue about, where this concept is what is actually at stake.
- When a government doubted the virusAfrica
- Recognised as indigenous, at lastEast Asia
- Batik and the question of whose heritageSoutheast Asia
- A dance banned, then rebuiltIndia
- Counting Bhopal's victimsIndia
- Simplifying the charactersEast Asia
- Demonetisation and the missing counterfactualIndia
- The painting that hides what it showsOceania