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基本説明
The essays assembled in Agnotology show that ignorance is often more than just an absence of knowledge; it can also be the outcome of cultural and political struggles.
Full Description
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? Agnotology—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 Agnotology 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 ("Doubt is our product" is the tobacco industry slogan). Individual chapters treat examples from the realms 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.
Contents
Contents Preface xxx 1. Agnotology: A Missing Term to Describe the Cultural Production of Ignorance (and its Study) Robert N. Proctor 1 Part I. Secrecy, Selection, and Suppression 2. Removing Knowledge: The Logic of Modern Censorship Peter Galison 000 3. Challenging Knowledge: How Climate Science Became a Victim of the Cold War Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway 000 4. Manufactured Uncertainty: Contested Science and the Protection of the Public's Health and Environment David M. Michaels 000 5. Coming To Understand: Orgasm and the Epistemology of Ignorance Nancy Tuana 000 Part II. Lost Knowledge, Lost Worlds 6. West Indian Abortifacients and the Cultural Production of Ignorance Londa Schiebinger 000 7. Suppression of Indigenous Fossil Knowledge: From Claverack, New York 1705 to Agate Springs, Nebraska, 2005 Adrienne Mayor 000 8. Agnotology in/of Archaeology Alison Wylie 000 Part III. Theorizing Ignorance 9. Social Theories of Ignorance Michael J. Smithson 000 10. White Ignorance Charles W. Mills 000 11. Risk Management vs. the Precautionary Principle: Agnotology as a Strategy in the Debate over Genetically Engineered Organisms David Magnus 000 12. Smoking Out Objectivity: Journalistic Gears in the Agnotology Machine Jon Christensen 000 Notes 000 List of Contributors 000 Index 000
