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The belief that ‘if only people knew what was going on they would do something’, is contradicted daily by the ample evidence that, when it comes to human rights violations, knowledge is not a guarantee for action. Many have tried to make sense of public passivity from the fields of Sociology (e.g. Geras, 1999; Boltanski, 1999), Psychology (e.g. Latane and Darley, 1970, 1976; Staub, 1989, 2003), and Media and Communications (e.g. Tester, 2001; Chouliaraki, 2006, 2012). The knowledge produced is rich and enlightening but also somewhat fragmented and confined to the disciplinary boundaries within which it was generated.
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Seu, B. (2015). Knowing and Not Knowing: Implicatory Denial and Defence Mechanisms in Response to Human Rights Abuses. In: Frosh, S. (eds) Psychosocial Imaginaries. Studies in the Psychosocial. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137388186_9
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