ISBN:
9781315867762
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (427 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge international handbooks series
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Routledge international handbook of ignorance studies
DDC:
306.4/2
Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE
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Alfred Nordmann
;
Allison Stewart
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General
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Andrew Stirling
;
Ann Kerwin
;
Basille Zimmermann
;
Brian Balmer
;
Brian Rappert
;
Brian Wynne
;
Christian Kuhlicke
;
Claudia Aradau
;
Daniel Kleinman
;
David Hess
;
David Stark
;
Ekaterina Svetlova
;
Erinn Cunniff Gilson
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gendered science
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Helen Pushkarskaya
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Ignorance as Asset and Threat
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Ignorance in Economic Theory and Practice
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Ignorance in History
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Ignorance in Law and Security Studies
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Ignorance, Oppression and Collective Memory
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institutional memory
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Janet A. Kourany
;
Jerome Ravetz
;
Joanna Kempner
;
Joanne Gaudet
;
Joanne Roberts
;
Julie Laplante
;
Kevin Elliott
;
Liana Chua
;
Linsey McGoey
;
Lisa Holstein
;
Mary Douglas
;
Matthias Gross
;
Michael Smithson
;
Mike Michael
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medical ignorance
;
Nina Janich
;
Noortje Marres
;
Oliver Kessler
;
Peter Wehling
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Registering the Unknown: Ignorance as Methodology
;
Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance
;
Scott Frickel
;
Steve Rayner
;
S. Holly Stocking
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Valuing and Managing the Unknown in Science, Technology and Engineering
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Sociology
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Science -- Social aspects
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Knowledge, Sociology of
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Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Wissensproduktion
;
Unwissenheit
Abstract:
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, anthropology, feminist studies, and related fields in order to serve as a seminal g
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; 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
Description / Table of Contents:
8 The production of forbidden knowledge9 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
Description / Table of Contents:
16 Science: For better or worse, a source of ignorance as well as knowledge17 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
Description / Table of Contents:
PART IV Power and ignorance: Oppression, emancipation and shifting subjectivities23 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
Description / Table of Contents:
31 Governing by ignoring: The production and the function of the under-reporting of farm-workers' pesticide poisoning in French and Californian regulations32 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; 37 Organizational ignorance
Description / Table of Contents:
38 Managing with ignorance: The new ideal
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Description based upon print version of record
