Agnotology : the making and unmaking of ignorance / edited by Robert N. Proctor and Londa Schiebinger.
"What don't we know, and why don't we know it? What keeps ignorance alive, or allows it to be used as a political instrument? Agnatology--the study of ignorance--provides a new theoretical perspective to broaden traditional questions about "how we know" to ask, Why don'...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
[2008]
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| Summary: | "What don't we know, and why don't we know it? What keeps ignorance alive, or allows it to be used as a political instrument? Agnatology--the study of ignorance--provides a new theoretical perspective to broaden traditional questions about "how we know" to ask, Why don't we know what we don't know? The essays assembled in this book show that ignorance is often more than just an absence of knowledge; it can also be the outcome of cultural and political struggles. Ignorance has a history and a political geography, but there are also things people don't want you to know. Individual chapters treat examples from the realm of global climate change, military secrecy, female orgasm, environmental denialism, Native American paleontology, theoretical archaeology, racial ignorance, and more. The goal of this volume is to better understand how and why various forms of knowing do not come to be, or have disappeared, or have become invisible."--Back cover. |
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| Item Description: | "This volume emerged from workshops held at Pennsylvania State University in 2003 and Stanford University in 2005"--P. vii. |
| Physical Description: | viii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 080475652X 9780804756525 0804759014 9780804759014 |