Routledge international handbook of ignorance studies / / edited by Matthias Gross and Linsey McGoey.

• Superior document: Routledge International Handbooks
• TeilnehmendeR: Gross, Matthias, 1969-; McGoey, Linsey.
• Place / Publishing House: London ;, New York : : Routledge,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge International Handbooks
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (426 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

"Once treated as the absence of knowledge, ignorance today has become a highly influential topic in its own right, commanding growing attention across the natural and social sciences where a wide range of scholars have begun to explore the social life and political issues involved in the distribution and strategic use of not knowing. The field is growing fast and this handbook reflects this interdisciplinary field of study by drawing contributions from economics, sociology, history, philosophy, cultural studies, area studies, anthropology, legal studies, feminist studies, and related fields in order to serve as a seminal guide to the political, legal and social uses of ignorance in social and political life"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- 1 Introduction -- PART I Historical treatments of ignorance in philosophy, literature and the human sciences -- 2 Ignorance and investigation -- 3 Learned ignorance: The apophatic tradition of cultivating the virtue of unknowing -- 4 Literary ignorance -- 5 Popper, ignorance, and the emptiness of fallibilism -- 6 From Descartes to Rumsfeld: The rise and decline of ignorance-of-ignorance -- 7 The anatomy of ignorance: Diagnoses from literature -- PART II Registering the unknown: Ignorance as methodology -- 8 The production of forbidden knowledge -- 9 Ignorance and the epistemic choreography of method -- 10 Sharing the resources of ignorance -- 11 Expect the unexpected: Experimental music, or the ignorance of sound design -- 12 Purveyors of ignorance: Journalists as agents in the social construction of scientific ignorance -- 13 Ignorance and the brain: Are there distinct kinds of unknowns? -- 14 Linguistics and ignorance -- PART III Valuing and managing the unknown in science, technology and medicine -- 15 Undone science and social movements: A review and typology -- 16 Science: For better or worse, a source of ignorance as well as knowledge -- 17 Selective ignorance in environmental research -- 18 Lost in space: Geographies of ignorance in science and technology studies -- 19 Ignorance and industry: Agrichemicals and honey bee deaths -- 20 Doubt, ignorance and trust: On the unwarranted fears raised by the doubt-mongers -- 21 Decision-making under the condition of uncertainty and non-knowledge: The deliberative turn in genetic counselling -- 22 Fighting a losing battle? The right not to know and the dynamics of biomedical knowledge production -- PART IV Power and ignorance: Oppression, emancipation and shifting subjectivities -- 23 Global white ignorance -- 24 Intersubjective vulnerability, ignorance, and sexual violence -- 25 Vulnerability, ignorance and the experience of radical surprises -- 26 Anthropological perspectives on ritual and religious ignorance -- 27 Criminal ignorance -- 28 Targeting ignorance to change behavior -- 29 Rational ignorance -- 30 Democracy and practices of ignorance -- PART V Ignorance in economic theory, risk management and security studies 31 Governing by ignoring: The production and the function of the under-reporting of farm-workers" pesticide poisoning in French and Californian regulations -- 32 To know or not to know? A note on ignorance as a rhetorical resource in geoengineering debates -- 33 Unfolding the map: Making knowledge and ignorance mobilization dynamics visible in science evaluation and policymaking -- 34 Ignorance is strength? Intelligence, security and national secrets -- 35 Ignorance and the sociology of economics -- 36 Decision-theoretic approaches to non-knowledge in economics.