{"product_id":"ignorance-unmasked-essays-in-the-new-science-of-agnotology-9781503643956","title":"Ignorance Unmasked: Essays in the New Science of Agnotology","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWe live in an age of ignorance. This book offers a guide to how we got here-and how we might escape.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From obfuscations of climate science to the myriad deceptions inhering in language, \u003ci\u003eIgnorance Unmasked\u003c\/i\u003e explores how agnotology-the study of ignorance-can help us better grasp: Why don't we know what we don't know? What are the obstacles to knowledge, and how might those be overcome?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Ignorance has countless agents and authors; it gets deliberately manufactured and widely disseminated. In a provocative set of essays, this book engages climate change and public health, algorithmic amplification of misinformation, deep fakes and data obsolescence, the origins of free market fundamentalism and gun industry deceptions, along with the ignorance produced by military trauma, sugar and meat agnotology, environmental malfeasance, and the forgetting of the Nakba. It helps us better understand how and why knowledge gets erased, and how rectifying such ignorance can enlarge human liberties and planetary health. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contributors: Nadia Abu El-Haj, Daniel Akselrad, Erik M. Conway, John Donohue, Hany Farid, Benjamin Franta, Peter Galison, Jennifer Jacquet, Caroline A. Jones, Robert Lustig, Naomi Oreskes, Robert N. Proctor, Rosemary Sayigh, Londa Schiebinger, and Nanna Bonde Thylstrup\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert N. Proctor\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History at Stanford University. His books include \u003ci\u003eRacial Hygiene\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), \u003ci\u003ePackaged Pleasures\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), and \u003ci\u003eGolden Holocaust\u003c\/i\u003e (2011). \u003cb\u003eLonda Schiebinger\u003c\/b\u003e is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science at Stanford University. Her books include \u003ci\u003eGendered Innovations 2\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), \u003ci\u003eSecret Cures of Slaves\u003c\/i\u003e (Stanford, 2017), and \u003ci\u003ePlants and Empire\u003c\/i\u003e (2004). Together, Proctor and Schiebinger are editors of \u003ci\u003eAgnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance\u003c\/i\u003e (Stanford, 2008).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51623560642834,"sku":"9781503643956","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d3850cf0-e01e-4f99-bfcb-490c17bc535d.jpg?v=1759227940","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ignorance-unmasked-essays-in-the-new-science-of-agnotology-9781503643956","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}