Research on strategic ignorance tends to focus on the deliberate manufacture of non-knowledge as a tool of governance. In contrast, this article highlights the ‘banal’ workings of wilful blindness, how it can become a normalised part of corporate routine. It examines the diverse dynamics of wilful blindness that became visible in the planning and implementation of a mega oil development project in Timor-Leste, including spatial distancing, denial of moral implications, and the production of effervescent moments of collective solidarity. It concludes that affective states are key in the normalisation of wilful blindness, which operates at the unstable boundary between intention and affect. An emphasis on wilful blindness helps us to bridge the gap between political economy approaches that emphasise the disruptive impact of resource abundance, on the one hand, and anthropological approaches that highlight the social logics and ethical evaluations of main actors involved, on the other.

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故意失明的平庸：提取性遭遇中的无知和情感

对战略无知的研究往往侧重于故意制造非知识作为治理工具。相比之下，本文强调了故意视而不见的“平庸”运作方式，以及它如何成为公司日常工作的规范化部分。它考察了在东帝汶大型石油开发项目的规划和实施中可见的故意盲目的各种动态，包括空间疏远、否认道德影响，以及集体团结的激动时刻的产生。它得出结论，情感状态是故意失明正常化的关键，故意失明在意图和情感之间的不稳定边界上运行。强调故意视而不见有助于我们弥合强调资源丰富的破坏性影响的政治经济学方法之间的差距，