TY - BOOK ID - 4856963 TI - Agnotology : the making and unmaking of ignorance AU - Proctor, Robert AU - Schiebinger, Londa L. PY - 2008 SN - 9780804756525 9780804759014 080475652X 0804759014 PB - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Ignorance (Theory of knowledge) KW - Secrecy KW - Ignorance KW - Secret KW - Social aspects KW - Aspect social KW - Ignorance. KW - Secret. KW - Secrecy. KW - Social aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4856963 AB - 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. ER -