Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Gross, Matthias; Mcgoey, Linsey

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Once treated as the absence of knowledge, ignorance has now become a highly influential and rapidly growing topic in its own right. This new edition of the seminal text in the field is fully revised and includes new and expanded chapters on a wide range of topics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000582116
• Artikelnr.: 64210748

Autorenporträt

Matthias Gross is professor at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Jena and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, UFZ in Leipzig, Germany, where he is also head of the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology. Among his recent books are the Oxford Handbook of Energy and Society (2018, ed. with Debra Davidson) and Green European (2017, ed. with Audrone Telesiene). Linsey McGoey is professor of sociology and Director of the Centre for Research in Economic Sociology and Innovation (CRESI) at the University of Essex, UK. She works on epistemology, ignorance, political economy and economic justice. Her books include No Such Thing as a Free Gift (2015) and The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Revolutionary epistemology: the promise and peril of ignorance studies
Part I: Remaking the philosophy of ignorance
2. Ignorance and investigation
3. Apophatic Ignorance and its Applications
4. Global white ignorance
5. On the relation between ignorance and epistemic injustice: an ignorance-first analysis
6. The Pragmatics of Ignorance
7. Popper
ignorance
and the emptiness of fallibilism
8. Literary ignorance
Part II: The Production of Ignorance as a Resource: Productively Coping with Knowledge Gaps
9. Forbidden Knowledge in a Post-Truth Era
10. Ignorance and the Epistemic Choreography of Social Research
11. Sharing the Resources of Ignorance
12. Ignorance of Model Uncertainty and its Effects on Ethics and Society Using the Example of Geosciences
13. Expect the Unexpected: Experimental Music
or the Ignorance of Sound Design
14. Ignorance and the Brain: Are There Distinct Kinds of Unknowns?
15. Linguistics and ignorance
Part III: Valuing and Managing the Unknown in Science
Technology
and Medicine
16. Undone science and social movements: A review and typology
17. Science: For better or worse
a source of ignorance as well as knowledge
18. Lost in Space: Place
Space
and Scale in the Production of Ignorance
19. Ignorance and Industry: Agrichemicals and Honey Bee Deaths
20. Tackling the Corona Pandemic: Managing Nonknowledge in Political Decision-Making
21. The Pandemic as we know it: Ignorance and Non-knowledge in COVID-19 Policy
22. The right not to know and the dynamics of biomedical knowledge production: fighting a losing battle?
Part IV: Power
oppression and hierarchies of ignorance
23. Intersectional ignorance in women's sport
24. Sexual Injustice and Willful Ignorance
25. Anthropological perspectives on ritual and religious ignorance
26. On the Burial of the Palestinian Nakba
27. Democracy and Practices of Ignorance
Part V: Behavioral ignorance and political economy: towards a new dynamism
28. Targeting Ignorance to Change Behavior
29. Rational ignorance
30. Knowledge Resistance
31. Criminal ignorance
environmental harms and processes of denial
32. Ignorance is strength? Intelligence
security
and national secrets
33. Decision-theoretic approaches to non-knowledge in economics
34. Organizational ignorance Afterword
35. Ignorance Studies: State of the Art