001 AGN Agnotology: the making & unmaking of ignorance

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001 AGN Agnotology

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Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance by Robert Proctor (Editor); Londa Schiebinger (Editor) Preface p. vii 1   Agnotology: A Missing Term to Describe the Cultural Production of Ignorance (and Its Study)   Robert N. Proctor p. 1 Part I Secrecy, Selection, and Suppression 2   Removing Knowledge: The Logic of Modern Censorship   Peter Galison p. 37 3   Challenging Knowledge: How Climate Science Became a Victim of the Cold War   Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway p. 55 4   Manufactured Uncertainty: Contested Science and the Protection of the Public's Health and Environment   David Michaels p. 90 5   Coming to Understand: Orgasm and the Epistemology of Ignorance   Nancy Tuana p. 108 Part II Lost Knowledge, Lost Worlds 6   West Indian Abortifacients and the Making of Ignorance   Londa Schiebinger p. 149 7   Suppression of Indigenous Fossil Knowledge: From Claverack, New York, 1705 to Agate Springs, Nebraska, 2005   Adrienne Mayor p. 163 8   Mapping Ignorance in Archaeology: The Advantages of Historical Hindsight   Alison Wylie p. 183 Part III Theorizing Ignorance 9   Social Theories of Ignorance   Michael J. Smithson p. 209 10   White Ignorance   Charles W. Mills p. 230 11   Risk Management versus the Precautionary Principle: Agnotology as a Strategy in the Debate over Genetically Engineered Organisms   David Magnus p. 250 12   Smoking Out Objectivity: Journalistic Gears in the Agnotology Machine   Jon Christensen p. 266 List of Contributors p. 283 Index p. 289   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.   Robert N. Proctor is Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University and the author of The Nazi War on Cancer (1999) and Cancer Wars: How Politics Shapes What We Know and Don't Know (1995). Londa Schiebinger is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science and the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. Her recent books include Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World (2004) and Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering (forthcoming from Stanford).