Ignorance and Change

Adriana Mica is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialisation, University of Warsaw where she leads the Research Unit on Action and Consequences. Her research interests include sociology of possibility and ignorance, sociology of failure, unintended consequencesm, and crisis management. She is the author of Sociology as Analysis of the Unintended: From the Problem of Ignorance to the Discovery of the Possible (2018)Anna Horolets is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw. Her research interests include discourse analysis, Europeanization and migration studies. Her published articles have appeared in East European Politics and Societies and Leisure Sciences.Mikołaj Pawlak is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialisation, University of Warsaw where he leads the Chair of Sociology of Norms, Deviance and Social Control. His research interests cover new institutional theory, migration studies, and sociology of knowledge/ignorance. He is the author of Tying Micro and Macro: What Fills Up the Sociological Vacuum (2018).Paweł Kubicki is an Associate Professor at the Warsaw School of Economics where he leads the Department of Social Policy. He specializes in public policy analysis, particularly in disability studies, migration studies, and social exclusion. His published articles have appeared in Canadian Journal of Disability Studies and East European Politics and Societies.

"Why did recent social crises not lead to meaningful change? The authors of this book tackle this question based on the investigation of the recent European refugee crisis and its perception in Poland, Hungary and Romania. The book is an innovative contribution in social science research with a sobering conclusion: Nothing will change as long as the path to the future is projected based on the very same principles that led to the crisis in the first place."Jens Beckert, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies"Ignorance and Change tackles the puzzle of why the many unexpected events, crises and failures that we have faced globally over the past years have so often reinforced rather than unsettling existing patterns of ignorance. In doing so, the authors demonstrate how focusing on what ignorance does rather than what it is that holds out the promise of transforming our understanding of how we respond to change and crisis. This is a powerful and important book in unsettling times." Jacqueline Best, University of Ottawa

• 1. Introduction2. Ignorance, unexpected events and crises3. Change in the regimes of ignorance4. Crisis and ignorance5. The European refugee crisis and the ignorance of framing6. Projecting the European refugee crisis: Polish, Hungarian and Romanian Media7. From categories to seeing like public policy: ignorance and change in Poland, Hungary and Romania 8. Conclusions