Curiosity studies : a new ecology of knowledge / Perry Zurn and Arjun Shankar, editors ; foreword by Pamela Grossman and John L. Jackson Jr. ; afterword by Helga Nowotny.
"Curiosity Studies marshals scholars from more than a dozen fields not only to define curiosity but also to grapple with its ethics as well as its role in technological advancement and global citizenship."--
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Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2020]
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Physical Description: | xxx, 318 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction: What is curiosity studies? / Perry Zurn and Arjun Shankar
- Exploring the costs of curiosity : an environmental scientist's dilemma / Seeta Sistla
- Curious ecologies of knowledge : more-than-human anthropology / Heather Anne Swanson
- Curiosity, ethics, and the medical management of intersex anatomies / Ellen K. Feder
- A network science of the practice of curiosity / Danielle S. Bassett
- Why should this be so? The waxing and waning of children's curiosity / Susan Engel
- The Dude abides, or, why curiosity is important for education today / Tyson Lewis
- "The campus is sick" : capitalist curiosity and student mental health / Arjun Shankar
- Autism, neurodiversity, and curiosity / Kristina T. Johnson
- Obstacles to curiosity and concern : exploring the racist imagination / Narendra Keval
- Curious entanglements : opacity and ethical relation in Latina/o aesthetics / Christina León
- Transsexuality, the curio, and the transgender tipping point / Amy Marvin
- Peeping and transgression : curiosity and collecting in English literature / Barbara M. Benedict
- Curiosity and political resistance / Perry Zurn
- Curiosity at the end of the world : women, fiction, electricity / Hilary M. Schor
- Conclusion: On teaching curiosity / Arjun Shankar and Perry Zurn
- Afterword / Helga Nowotny.