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.
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 religion; domestic law and jurisprudence; sexuality and gender studies; memory studies; international relations; psychology; decision-theory; and colonial history.
The study of ignorance has attracted growing attention across the natural and social sciences where a wide range of scholars explore the social life and political issues involved in the distribution and strategic use of not knowing. This handbook reflects the interdisciplinary field of ignorance studies by drawing contributions from economics, sociology, history, philosophy, cultural studies, anthropology, feminist studies, and related fields to serve as a path-breaking guide to the political, legal and social uses of ignorance in social and political life.
This book will be indispensable for anyone seeking to understand the important role played by ignorance in contemporary society, culture and politics.
Chapter 21 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution- Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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 womens 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
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).
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