{"product_id":"ignorance-unmasked","title":"Ignorance Unmasked","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert N. Proctor, Londa Schiebinger (editors)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback, 302 pages\u003cbr\u003e9781503643956\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEssays in the New Science of Agnotology\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe live in an age of ignorance. This book offers a guide to how we got here—and how we might escape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom obfuscations of climate science to the myriad deceptions inhering in language, Ignorance Unmasked 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\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIgnorance 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\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors: 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\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e1. Agnotology, Thirty Years in the Making\u003cbr\u003e2. How the Most Important Fact of Global Warming Has Been Obscured\u003cbr\u003e3. Preventing Unwanted Births Can Help Mitigate Climate Change—While Enlarging Human Liberties\u003cbr\u003e4. Al-Fueled Ignorance, Confusion, and Profit\u003cbr\u003e5. On Data Loss and Disappearance in Digital Societies\u003cbr\u003e6. Law against Knowledge: Anti-Epistemology\u003cbr\u003e7. Why We Wrongly Imagine Adam Smith as a Free Market Fundamentalist\u003cbr\u003e8. Gun-Lobby Agnotology: Degrading the Truth about Firearms\u003cbr\u003e9. Gluttony and Sloth? Personal Responsibility versus the True Cause of Obesity\u003cbr\u003e10. How Big Meat Has Created and Legitimized Ignorance\u003cbr\u003e11. On the Burial of the Palestinian Nakba\u003cbr\u003e12. Euphemism in the Architecture and Language of Treblinka\u003cbr\u003e13. Hiram Powers, Black Agnotology, and Segregated Art History\u003cbr\u003e14. \"Civilian\" Ignorance, American Militarism, and the Post-9\/11 Wars\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41027231449123,"sku":"9781503643956","price":49.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2514\/8624\/files\/DSC_6594.jpg?v=1762253419","url":"https:\/\/wardahbooks.live\/products\/ignorance-unmasked","provider":"Wardah Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}