User:Antidiskriminator/Graveyard of my articles/Engaged ignorance

The less the people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they sleep in the night.

— Otto von Bismark

Engaged ignorance is term used by historians who studied historical events from the last half of XX century on Balkan and describes ignorance of the population about basic historical facts, which can be misused for political reasons.

Main characteristics of engaged ignorance is that it is aimed against or in favour of certain group of people.

External links

• Text of historian Dubravka Stojanović about engaged ignorance published on web site "Slobodna Evropa"
• Interview of Dubravka Stojanović to Građanske newspapers
• Stojanović, Dubravka (November 2010), Novosti iz prošlosti - znanje, neznanje, upotreba i zloupotreba istorije (in Serbian), Belgrade: Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, retrieved December 4, 2010 {{citation}}: |first2= missing |last2= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |lay-date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)