Index
Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA), 16, 18, 23; members, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33–34
abiding, 92, 99, 100, 101, 103, 104
absentmindedness, 99, 103, 104
action: collective, 282; direct, 231, 232; nonviolent, 231–33
activism, 38, 171, 190, 230, 233, 236, 238
Addison, Joseph, 213
aesthetics, xiv, xxii, xxiii, 169, 173, 174, 184, 193, 221; Latina/o, 168; minoritarian, 168, 170, 183
African Americans, 6, 154, 231, 233, 275
Age of Curiosity, xii
Age of Science, 209
Ainsworth, Mary, 83
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll), 219, 220, 221, 254; curiosity and, 209
alterity, 176, 177, 180, 182; Latina/o, 169
ambiguity, 80, 89, 94; learning and, 85; moral, 209; phenomenological, 209
American Geophysical Union, 9
Andrews, Pamela, 248
Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow), The (Derrida), 22, 230
anthropologists, 27; biologists and, 17–18; multispecies, 23
anthropology, xii, 27, 28, 31, 33, 34, 277; co-analysis/dialogue and, 29; curiosity and, 15, 18–21, 25, 29, 108–12; dialogic commitments of, 32; multispecies, 15, 33; natural history and, 17; natural sciences and, 15
anxiety, xix, 108, 111, 121, 122, 148, 153, 159, 160, 162; excess, 106; managing, 147, 158
Anzaldúa, Gloria, 203
Aquinas, Thomas, xiv
Archaeology of Knowledge, The (Foucault), 187n23
Aristotle, 53n38; curiosity and, xiii, 37–38; knowledge and, 49
ars apodemica, xix
artificial intelligence, xxiv, 142
ASDs. See autism spectrum disorder
Aspects of the Novel (Forster), 247
assessments, xiii, 63, 141; developmental, 138; retrospective, 235; standardized, 137
assignments: curiosity-based, 271; developing, 280–84; experiential, 283–84
Athenian Mercury, The, 218
attachment theory, 84
attention, xix, 97, 98, 142; more-than-human, 24–25
attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), 134–36
attentiveness, 97, 99, 102, 104; being attentive to, 92–96
attunement, 24, 28, 33, 94, 95, 184
Augustine, xiii–xiv, 91, 97, 102, 103; belief systems and, 93; curiosity and, 93; Heidegger and, 94; phenomenology of, 92
AURA. See Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene
autism spectrum disorder (ASD), 130, 131, 133
awareness, xxii, 122, 149, 292; critical, 270, 283; cultural, 189; demographic, 174; sensory, 137; societal, 235
Bacon, Francis, 271
Bagehot, Walter, 267n10
Bais, Sander, xviii
Bakhtin, Mikhail, 247
Bal, Mieke, 247
Baldwin, James, 279
Ball, Philip, xviii
Banks, Sir Joseph, 212
Barthes, Roland, 264
Bartleby, the Scrivener (Melville), 240
Basic Questions of Philosophy (Heidegger), 95
Bassett, Danielle S., xxii
Bateson, F. W., 215
Bateson, Gregory, xxviin23
Baudrillard, Jean, 247
Beast and the Sovereign, The (Derrida), 229
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 255
behavior, xiv, xvii, 22, 27, 32, 130, 143, 229; competitive, 119; controlling, 159; curiosity, 137, 142, 221; exploratory, 131, 136, 140, 141, 144; information-seeking, 57, 61; learned, 68; naturalistic, 142; proactive, 159; sexist/xenophobic, xii
Behn, Aphra, 217
Benjamin, Walter, 96, 100, 259
Berlyne, Daniel, xix, 130, 132, 138, 232, 233
Bernard of Clairvaux, xiv
Bettcher, Talia, 189
Big Lebowski, The (film), xxii, 92, 98, 102, 193
Binova, Daniel, 221
Black community, 239; segregation and, 240
Bleak House (Dickens), 250
Blue Razz, xi
body, 151–54; cis, 201; intersex, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42; normal/abnormal, 49; trans, 201
Body Worlds, 193
Bonawitz, Elizabeth, 85
boundaries, 152, 291; gender, 223; geographical, 150; physical/conceptual, xviii
Bowie, David, 198
Bowlby, John, 83
Boyle, Richard, 213
breastfeeding, trans women, 199, 200, 201
British Museum, 214
Brooks, Peter, 217
brown coal beds, 18, 26–27, 30, 31; enacting curiosities at, 23–25
Burney, Frances, 249
Butler, Judith, 173
Butler, Samuel, 212
Buzard, James, 221
Cadet, Peggy, 44, 45, 46, 50, 52n25
Can You Forgive Her? (Trollope), 221
capitalism, xvi, 113, 121, 125n12, 275; curiosity and, 292; gendered, 110; hermeneutics of, 185; mental unwellness and, 108; neoliberal, 110, 111; racialized, 110; transnational, 202
Carroll, Lewis, 209, 219, 220, 221, 240
cats, curiosity and, 147–48
Cavanaugh, Sheila, 238
Center for Curiosity, viii, 124n12
change, xviii–xxi, 158; abiotic/biotic, 7
Changing Sex (Hausman), 195
Charles II, 211
Chigurh, Anton, 101
CHILDES, 82
Chouinard, Michele, 78
Chow, Rey, 187n23
Christen, Pat, 13
Chronicle of Higher Education, The, 11
cissexuals, 195
civilization, 229, 250, 262, 263, 265, 267n13; consciousness and, 228; end of, 251
Civil Rights Movement, 238, 239, 240; curiosity and, 228, 231–33
classrooms, 269; contemporary conceptions of, 86; curiosity in, 167–68
cleansing, racist phantasies of, 154–57
Cloud, Dana, 111
coal mining, damage from, 16
co-analysis, 25, 29, 31, 33, 34
Coates, Ta-Nehisi, 270
Coen Brothers, 92, 98–99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104
collaboration, 17, 22–23, 161; curiosity and, 21; intradisciplinary, 16, 27
colonialism, xvi, 20, 33, 277; appropriation of, 192; settler, 275, 289n46
Coming Plague, The (Garrett), 255
commodity, 210; curiosity as, 114
communication, 130, 193; conscious, 278; nonfunctional, 142
community: biological, 7; Black, 239, 240; dialogues, 280; engagement, 284; environmental science, 11; individual and, 273; intersex, xxi; scientific, 5, 10; teacher–learner, 271, 274
complexity, 46, 62, 89, 122, 132, 137, 141, 150, 163, 183, 198, 233, 238; historical, xxiii
complexity theory, xv
concepts, 68, 97; disconnected, 61; majority of, 62; relationships between, 69
concern, 23; collapse of, 151–54; corrupting, 154–57; curiosity and, 23, 160–64; race and, 149–51
Confessions (Augustine), 92
Conflict, Arousal, and Curiosity (Berlyne), 232
connections, 61, 66; across difference, 197; global, 110; long-distance, 62; networks of, xvi; scientific, 10
Conrad, Joseph, 220
Cornell University, suicide at, 107
Cottegnies, Line, xx
creativity, xix, 31, 61, 66, 113; curiosity and, viii–xix; development of, 149–50
Cronin, Justin, 255
culture, 96, 108, 109, 120, 159, 168, 180, 192, 209, 291; binding, 113; campus, 237; curiosity, 113, 285; European, 169; mass, 189, 191, 201; nature and, 22; as product, 113; signifiers of, 171; trans, 202; visual, 170, 177
curiosi, xix
curiositas, xiii, xiv, xix, 16, 242n22; displays of, 210; enacting, 23–25; multispecies, 21, 25; multivalent, 191
curiosity: acts of, 69; analyses of, xv, xxiv–xxv, 92, 285; appetite for, 76–77; attention for, 93, 104, 285; bringing back, 262, 288n38; collapse of, 151–54, 162; collective, 240, 241; commodification of, 108, 112–21; common sense, 274; compromising, 11; corrupting, 154–57; critical, 271, 275, 277, 278–79, 280; criticism of, 92, 157–60; cultivating, 270, 271–72, 281, 282, 283; demonstrating, ix, 77, 270; dimension of, 96–97; encouraging, 86, 217; end of, 49–50; epistemic, 138, 139; expansive, 17, 19, 21; exploring, xiv–xv, xvii; expressing, 85, 87, 109, 116; individualized, 32; institutionalized, 240; intellectual, 273; manifestations of, 132, 140–41; measuring, 130; modeling, 88; modes of, 21, 28; morbid, 193; more-than-human, 18; natural, xiv, 91, 210, 270; objects of, 37, 39, 67, 69, 195, 277, 283; politics of, 202, 228–31, 240, 271–76; practice of, xv, xix, 33, 58, 59, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70; promise of, 38, 50; promoting, 232–33; public, xxiii, 189, 200, 232; radical, xiii, xxi, 114, 280, 286; resistant, 239, 240, 244n70; scientific, xxi–xxii, xxiii, 4, 5, 6, 11, 219; social, 231, 273; structuring, 274; student, 108, 121, 122; studying, xii, xiii, xv, xvi, xviii, xxvn1, 293; subjects of, xx, 38–41, 198; taming, xxi, 291, 293; theory of, 97, 130; therapeutic, 229–30; understanding of, 144, 248
Curiosity: An Ethnographic Approach (class), 107
Curiosity (Mars Rover), xi
curiosity about, xxi; curiosity with and, 20
Curiosity and Exploration Inventory I and II (Kashdan), 233
curiosity cabinets, 136, 210, 217, 221, 267n14
Curiosity Cola, xi
Curiosity.com, xi
Curiosity in Early Modern Europe (Kenny), xviii
“Curiosity in the Classroom” (training session), 269
curiosity studies, xii, 136, 292, 293; ecologically informed, xvii; establishing, xii; neurodiverse, 130–33, 138, 143
curiosus, 181
curiotization, 190, 191; form of, 196–97; process of, 194, 196, 199; tipping points and, 199–202; trans, 194–98, 201; world-traveling and, 198
Curious George, xi
“Curious Is Calling,” xi
“Curious Maid” poems, 213
Curious Subjects (Schor), xviii, 248
“curious under fire,” 160
Daily Mail, 199
Darling, Candy, 203
Dartle, Rosa, 219
Darwin, Charles, 75–76, 89, 219
Daston, Lorraine, 246, 247, 261
data, 6, 80, 81, 82; analysis, 10, 132, 142; collecting, 136, 239; ethnographic, 19; informative, 4; interview, 108; relational, 59
David Copperfield (Dickens), 219
Davis, Angela, 275
Dead Subjects (Viego), 171
de Bury, Richard, xiv
Deccan Chronicle, 199
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), 177
Defert, Daniel, 234
Defoe, Daniel, 217
de Man, Paul, 175–76
Democracy and Education (Dewey), 57
demography, 19, 168, 172, 174, 175; lens of, 170
depression, 106, 108, 121, 123n3
Derrida, Jacques, 186n5, 231, 238, 240; criticism of, 22; curiosity and, 228; sovereignty and, 230
de Silva e de Menezes, Jean, 153
desire, 110, 174; curiosity and, 20, 37, 49, 50
de Sousa Santos, Boaventura, xvi
development, xix, 133, 150, 193; age, 138; cognitive, 58; curiosity and, 88, 89, 130, 131, 151; emotional, 149; professional, 269
Devore, Tiger, 44, 50; curiosity of, 45–46; Money and, 45, 46, 48
Dewey, John, 57, 272, 286n8; curiosity and, xix, 273; problem-solving and, 286n12
Diallo, François, 256
Diamond, Milton, 52n19
Dickens, Charles, 217, 219, 221, 249, 250, 259
difference, 170; cultural, xx; curio of, 185; curiosity and, xi–xii; generalizations and, 168; intradisciplinary, 16–18; relation and, 173
Discipline and Punish (Foucault), 233
discourse: achievement, 111; educational, 283; political, 163; public, 275; social, 110
discovery, 147, 278; appetite for, 76–77; gratification in, 93
Discovery Channel, xi
discrimination, 231, 232, 236, 238
distraction, xv, 94, 98–104, 193; cinema and, 100–101; curiosity and, 92, 97, 99, 104; rethinking, 96–98
diversity, xvi, 130, 132, 163, 174, 175
DNA, 5, 26–27, 36n28, 135; analyzing, 26–27, 36n28
Dombey and Son (Dickens), 250
Drabinski, John, 182
Dr. Eleven, 264
“Dr. Eleven,” 255, 257, 258, 264, 266
Dr. Money and the Boy with No Penis (documentary), 41–42
“Dude Looks Like a Lady” (Aerosmith), 196
Durkheim, Emile, 109
Durrani, Mariam, 269
Dvorak, Antonin, 140
Dweck, Carol, 286n8
eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), 3
ecology, xii, xv, xxi, 4, 8, 17, 21, 23; complex, 24; curious, 34; epistemic, xviii; forest, 26; human/nonhuman, 277–78
economics, 107, 108, 121, 270, 291
ecosystem, 3, 6; conception of, 8; preservation of, 7
education, xii, xviii–xxi, 96, 106, 107, 250, 278, 291; aesthetic, 184, 185; curiosity and, vii, xi, xxii, xxiii, 92, 93, 95, 104, 122, 270, 271–74; daydreaming and, 92; higher, xxii, 110, 283; neoliberal, 115–21; philosophy of, 92, 104; purpose of, 279; reconstruction of, 96
educational theory, 59, 270, 272
Eisner, John, 27
Elegy Department Spring (Gabriel), 188
Elephant in the Moon, The (Butler), 212
engagement, 113, 184, 191; abrasive, 159; dialogical, 281; peer-to-peer, 284
Enlightenment, xix, 209, 218, 223
entanglements, 31, 33, 203; curiosity and, 181–85
entrepreneurship, 23, 113, 114
environment, xv, 9, 66, 85, 108, 142, 143; collaborative, 271, 281, 284; learning, 84, 271, 272
environmental damage, 8, 10, 11, 15, 16
environmental scientists, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11
Epcot. See Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow
epistemology, 16, 79, 170, 173, 176, 228, 241; Native American, 288n44
Epistle (Pope), 213
Epistle I: To Richard Temple, Viscount of Cobham (Pope), 215
Epistles to Several Persons (Pope), 214
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (Pope), 215
Erhardt, Anke, 46, 47–48, 53n38
Essay Concerning Human Understanding, An (Locke), 214
ethics, 9, 37, 40, 42, 169, 171, 173, 176, 228; connection to, 6; curiosity and, 168, 170, 172, 180, 241; ecological, 7, 8; politics and, 174, 183, 185n1; professional, 7; violations, 49
ethnic cleansing, 153
ethnicity, 148, 152, 177, 180, 278
Evening Standard, 199
“Evil Deceivers and Make-Believers” (Bettcher), 189
experience, 57, 61, 89, 141; class, 117, 269; educational, 67, 70; lived, 195, 196; sociopolitical, 156; student, 112; trans, 201
Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (Epcot), 193, 198
exploration: basal sensory, 138; interest/motivation in, 85; methods/forms of, 283; potential for, 149; risks/rewards of, 83–89; security and, 84; spontaneous, 141
Fanon, Franz, 233
Fargo (film), 100
Feder, Ellen, xxi
Feeling in Theory (Terada), 175–76
Feinberg, Leslie, 203–4
feminism, xvii, 187n27, 203, 248, 274
fieldwork, 7, 15, 24, 25–29, 30, 32; anthropological, 23, 31; conducting, 16–17; curiosity and, 17, 19
fingere, 247
forests, 262; clear-cutting, 9; industrial, 24
Foucault, Michel, 124n12, 176, 187n23, 231, 233, 236, 238; curiosity and, 228, 229, 230, 240; GIP and, 235; intolerance-inquiry and, 234; knowledge and, 110
“Four Ways to Cultivate a Culture of Curiosity” (Harvard Business Review), 112–13
Fowler, Harry, xix
frameworks, 6, 282; abolitionist, 275; conceptual, 61; educational, 272; knowledge, xii, xv–xviii; modernist, 272; theoretical, 44
Frankenstein (Shelley), 218
Frankenstein, Victor, 209, 218
free association, 63, 101, 102
Free to Pee group, 238
Freire, Paulo, xx, 125n22, 269, 274; curiosity and, xix; on process of learning, 287n34; transformative learning and, 276
Fuchs, Jacob, 225n14
Fuckology (Morland, Downing, and Sullivan), 46, 47–48
Fungible Truth, 10–11
fungus, 25, 26, 27, 28–29, 31, 32; photo of, 26
Gabriel, Kay, 188
Galileo, 261
Gan, Elaine, 25
Gärdenfors, Peter, 68
Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie, xx, 177
Garrett, Laurie, 255
gaze, 142, 177, 181; colonial, 184; curious, 250; medical, 39; violent, 180
gender, 19, 46, 47, 121, 152, 278, 285; assigned, 39; binary, 238; conformity, 194; inconsistencies of, 195; nonconformity, 194; norms, 189
genderqueer people, 176, 237, 240
genetics, 5, 59, 129, 130, 135
GIP. See Prisons Information Group
Givens, Jarvis R., 275
Giving an Account of Oneself (Butler), 173
Glanville, Joseph, 212
Glissant, Édouard, 168, 172, 182, 183
globalization, xix, 154, 157, 185
goals, 116, 117, 119, 135, 292
Godwin, William, 218
Goldstein, Zil, 199
Gottlieb, Jacqueline, xix
Graeber, David, 109
Gramsci, Antonio, 274
Gray, Dorian, 183
Green, Jamison, 195
Gregory the Great, xiv
growth, 63; modeling, 59; network, 69; physical, 83; psychological, 83; technological, 4
Gulliver’s Travels (Swift), 212, 223
Hamilton College, 106–7, 119; curiosity and, 114; mental health at, 123; sickness at, 120–21; student experiences at, 112
Hamilton College Career Center, 116
Hamilton News, 118
Haraway, Donna, 18, 23, 28, 33, 203; curiosity and, 21–22; on Derrida, 22
Hard Times (Dickens), 250
Hart, Roger, 85
Harvard Business Review, 112–13, 115
Hearne, Thomas, 213
Heart of Darkness (Conrad), 220
Hegel, G. W. F., 202
Heidegger, Martin, 91, 95, 103; Augustine and, 94; curiosity and, 97; phenomenology of, 92
Heisenberg, Werner, 129
Heller, Gary, 258
Hemingway, Ernest, 183
hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelgis tsugae), 3, 7
Henderson, Bruce, 86
hermaphroditism, 42–43
Hervey, Lord, 215
Hillel the Elder, Rabbi, 10
Hills, Thomas T., 65–66
history, xii, xv, 182, 202, 279; colonial, 20; cultural, 223; literary, 223; multispecies, 31; specularization of, 201; trans, 196–97
History of Madness (Foucault), 229
History of Sexuality (Foucault), 229
hope, xviii, 123, 227, 271, 280, 286, 288n44
Hot Zone, The (Preston), 255
humanity, xxiii, 163, 196; curiosity and, 95; uprootedness of, 94
Hume, David, xiv
humiliation, 152, 156, 158, 160
Hurston, Zora Neale, vii
ideas, xvii; democracy of, xvi; probing, 80–83; questions and, 81
identity, 133, 148, 153, 204; self and, 155; sexual, 52n19; social, xii, 271; telos of, 186n5; transgender, 190
ideology, xiii, 271, 283; homophobic, 280; sexist, 280
imagination, 237, 288n44; curiosity and, viii–xix; ethical, 241; poetic vision of, 183; political, 239; private/public, 153; racist, 157
“I’m Curious” (Spears), xi
imperialism, xix, 111; border, 275
information, 10, 78, 88, 99, 118, 176, 217; anthropological, xix; assimilation of, 143; biological, 27; collecting, 78, 80, 81, 214, 234; data of, 176; features of, 132; geographical, xix; pursuit, 81–82; seeking, 8, 58–59, 79
innovation, viii; curiosity and, vii, 113
inquiry, 83, 131–32, 251; appetite for, 88; curiosity and, 284–85; intolerance, 234; language of, 77–78; masculinized, 220; neoliberal system of, 118; process of, 282; provoking, 209; schematic of, 239; sustained, 76
Insatiable Curiosity (Nowotny), 291
insubordination, curiosity and, 228, 238–39, 240, 241
intellectual capacity, growth of, 12
intellectual disability (ID), 133
interests, xix, 84, 85, 135; emergence of, 89; personal, 144; sustained, 86, 191
interrogation: cross-disciplinary, xii; gender-based, 238
intersex, 40, 44, 45; medical management of, 39; medicalization of, 38
intersex people, xxi, 44, 45, 49
Intersex Society of North America, 47
intervention, 37, 49; aesthetic, 168; double, 292; hormonal/surgical, 40
investigation, 40, 149; curiosity and, 37, 229; gratification in, 93; physical, 77
Irving, Dan, 190
Isaacs, Nathan, 78
Isidore of Seville, xiv
Jackson, John L., Jr., 284
Jenner, Caitlyn, 189
Johns Hopkins University, 44, 49; Money and, 41, 42, 43, 45, 48
Johnson, Kristina, xxii
Jones, Tom, 248
Jorgensen, Christine, 201
Journal of Ethnobiology, 16
Journal of the Plague Year, A (Defoe), 218
judgments, curiosity-informed, 45, 292
“just curious,” xi, 91, 92, 96, 98, 104
Kang, Min Jeong, xviii
Kansas Republican Party, transgender identity and, 190
Keval, Narendra, xx, xxii–xxiii
Kidd, Celeste, xix
Kimmerer, Robin Wall, xxiv
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 230, 231, 232
King Lear (Shakespeare), 253, 257
Kinks, 196
Kipling, Rudyard, 219
Klein, Melanie, 37
Kleinman, Arthur, 123n3
knowing, xxi; aesthetic sphere of, 182; familiarity of, 147
knowledge, xv, xxi, 28, 57, 62, 78, 88, 93, 147, 176, 215, 276, 280; acquiring, 39, 58–59, 68, 92, 109, 115, 149, 182, 183; alternative, 175; anthropological, 32; colonial, 183; concrete, 78; core, 5; curiosity and, xiv, xviii, 68, 138, 229; decolonial, 175; demographic, 169; desire for, 37, 49, 50; discrete, 168; innovative, 113; lack of, 278; mastery and, 174; nature of, 61–62; network of, xxii, 61–63, 64, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70; plurality of, xvi; postcolonial, 175; production of, xv, xvi, xviii, 5, 111, 168, 288n36; schemas of, 228; scientific, xiv, xix, 32; sociological, 170; structures of, 279; technologization of, xxiv; value
and, 110, 111–12, 121; wholeness and, 171
Kockelman, Paul, 109
Kreitler, Schulamith, 134, 135
Ku Klux Klan, 231
Kuhn, Thomas, 279
landscapes, 23; dynamics of, 28; economic, 107; global, 288n38; industrial, 31; more-than-human, 25; political, 228, 239
language, 61–62, 83, 134; abilities, 133; abstract, 142; curiosity and, 77, 78–79; degradation of, 156; first-person, 132; identity-first, 132–33; lack of, 137; receptive, 136
Latina/os, 167, 169, 173, 174, 175; category of, 170; wholeness/agentiality and, 171
Latina/o studies, 168–69, 185n1
latinidad, xxii, 167, 173, 174, 175, 185; curiosity and, 168–70; engagement with, 184; ethical relation to, 168–69; ethical work of, 185n1; sign of, 171–72; transparency and, 170–71
learning, xxi, xxii, 67, 80, 86, 87, 149, 291; capacity, 70; character development and, 37; curiosity and, xxii, 37, 116, 278; machine, 140, 142; promoting, 184; statistical, 68; theories of, 59; transformative, 276
learning disabilities, 134–36
learning platform, photo of, 135
Leask, Nigel, 169
Lee, Erica Violet, xxiv
León, Christina, xxiii
Leroi, Armand Marie, 53n38
Levinas, Emmanuel, 175, 176, 182
literature, xii, 168, 169, 174, 209
Little Mermaid, The, 194
Llewelyn, Clara Jean, 101
Locke, John, xiv, 214, 224n10, 271
“Lola” (Kinks), 196
London Labour and the London Poor (Mayhew), 249
Lowenstein, George, xix
Lubchenco, Jane, 11
MacWhinney, Brian, 82
Mandel, Emily St. John, 246, 252–53, 255, 258–59, 263, 266; curiosity and, 248; work of, 250–51
Man Who Would Be King, The (Kipling), 219
marginalized groups, xxiii, 21, 133, 167, 230, 238, 241
Marvin, Amy, xxiii
Mayhew, Henry, 249, 250, 259, 267n11
McDougall, Joyce, 149
McLuhan, Marshall, 289n52
meaning-making/meaning-building, xxi
media, 23, 148, 189, 199, 200, 227; curiotization and, 191; trans and, 202
Melville, Herman, 240
memory optics, 201–2
Mendieta, Ana, 177; work of, 178–79, 180, 181
mental health, xxii, 21, 63, 66–67, 106, 121, 123; anthropology of, 108–12; capitalism and, 108; cultural values and, 107
Metaphysics (Aristotle), 37
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare), 246, 264–65
Miller’s Crossing (film), 100, 102
Milton, John, 248
mindfulness training, xxiv, 66
Mis-Education of the Negro, The (Woodson), 275
models, 59; educational, 275; generative, 58; growth, 64, 65, 69; mathematical, 69; mental, 77; preferential attachment, 64
Moll Flanders (Defoe), 217
Money, John, 41, 50, 53n38; criticism of, 42, 48; Devore and, 45, 46, 48; dissertation of, 43; Erhardt and, 48; intersex bodies and, 42; investigating, 44–49; legacy of, 44, 48, 49; reassignment and, 46; standard of care and, 38; theories of, 42, 43
“Monk” (TV show), 99
monopragmosune, xiii
Montague, Lady Mary Wortley, 215
Moral Epistles (Pope), 214
morality, 9, 163, 213, 214, 228
Morning Chronicle, The, 267n11
Morris, William, 267n12
Moss, Llewelyn, 101
motivations, xix, 41, 43, 45, 57, 85, 109, 136, 137, 139, 152, 217, 219, 285
Mulvey, Laura, xx
“Museum of Civilization,” 260
Mushroom at the End of the World, The (Tsing), 262
Mysteries of Udolpho, The (Radcliffe), 218
myth, xx, 93, 149, 150, 162, 212, 232, 275, 281
Nair, Mira, 151
narratives, 38, 101, 151, 152, 154, 155, 248; failure, 119; false, 164; intersex, 39; racist, 150
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, 11
naturalia, 214
natural sciences, 9, 15, 17, 28, 53n38, 280
nature: culture and, 22; questioning, 129; valuation of, 7
necropolitics, 176
Negro History week, 275
neoliberalism: curiosity and, xxi, xxii, 107–8, 113; hermeneutics of, 185
Neoplatonism, xiv
networks, 227; brain, 61; building, 59, 63–66, 67; concept, 59, 65; co-occurrence, 63; defining, 59–61; geometry of, 68; graph of, 60; growth of, 59, 63–66, 67; knowledge, xxii, 63, 64, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70; language, 59; mathematical, 69; multiscale, 61; prison resistance, 233–36; representation of, 60; scientific, 12; semantic, 59, 62, 63, 66, 69; social, 61; structure of, 62, 65; transport, 65; world building, 262
neurodevelopment, 58
neurodiversity, 138, 139, 143, 285
News from Nowhere (Morris), 267n12
Newton, Isaac, 211
New York Post, 199
New York University, suicide at, 107
Nicholson, Marjorie Hope, 214
Nietzsche, Friedrich, xx, 231, 238, 240; curiosity and, 228, 229, 230
No Country for Old Men (film), 101, 102
nodes, 60, 63, 64; connections to, 64–65; network, 59, 60, 62
nonhuman species, 17, 24, 32, 34
North, Paul, 92, 97, 99, 101, 104
Nowotny, Helga, xxi
objectification, 174, 195, 196, 198
O’Brien, Michelle, 202–3
oddities, 80, 120, 209, 217, 222, 247; medical, 192–93
Odysseus, xx
oikos, xv
Old Curiosity Shop, The (Dickens), 217, 221
“On Cartography and Dissection” (Rose), 102
On Longing (Stewart), 247
opacity, 177, 182; aesthetic, 170, 181; attunement to, 184; curiosity and, 168–70, 174; ethics of, 172, 173; relationality and, 172; term, 171–73
openness, xi, 27, 39, 61, 273, 277
Operation Peter Pan, 180
organisms, 16, 24, 130, 291; classifying, 28; collecting, 7; genetic modification of, 6; nonhuman, 7, 28
Origin of Species, The (Darwin), 219
Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave (Behn), 217
Other, 109, 149, 171, 174, 177; nonhuman, 34; racial/ethnic, 147, 154; real, 147
paleoclimatology, 9
Paradise Lost (Milton), 248
Park, Katherine, 247
Parrish, Judith Totman, 10
Participatory Research framework, 282
Passage, The (Cronin), 255, 267n13
Patria Potestad law, 180
Paxillus involutus, 25, 27, 29, 31, 32, 33; photo of, 26
pedagogy, 167, 168, 183, 184, 279, 284; abolitionist, 270, 272, 274–75, 276, 281; critical, 270–71, 272, 274, 276, 277, 281; curious, 269, 270–71, 276, 277, 278, 280, 285; experiential, 270, 281; feminist, 270, 272, 273, 276, 281
Pedagogy of Freedom (Freire), 269
“People Are Talking,” 45
People in Search of Safe and Accessible Restrooms (PISSAR), 230, 236–41; patrols, 237–38
perceptions, xix, 57, 61, 62, 134, 152, 197, 198, 214
periergia, xiii
phallogocentric fantasies, curiosity and, 230
phantasies, 153, 163; primal scene, 150; racist, 148, 150, 154–57, 164
Philobiblon (de Bury), xiv
philosophy, xii, 91, 92, 211, 228, 271; curiosity and, xxvin6, 95, 96; educational, 95, 104; experimental, 214
physiology, 132, 139, 140, 273
Piaget, Jean, 130
Pindar, Peter, 212
PISSAR. See People in Search of Safe and Accessible Restrooms
“Playfulness, ‘World’-Travelling, and Loving Perception” (Lugones), 197
Poetics of Relation (Glissant), 172, 182
political life, triangulation/strangulation of, 160–64
political protest, efficacy of, 233
politics, xix, 18, 107, 123n3, 156, 169, 172, 176, 189, 231, 239, 240, 270, 291; American, 148; curiosity and, 182; deformation of, 163; demands of, 171; ethics and, 174, 183, 185n1; identity, 153; programmatic, 172
Pope, Alexander, 213, 214, 215, 216, 220, 224n10, 225n14
popular culture, curiosity and, xi
power, 240, 280; curiosity and, 229; effects of, 228; hegemonic, 274; institutions of, 277; systems of, 121, 279
praxis, xii, xiii, 271; affective, 274, 280; antiracist, 273; curiosity-based, 284, 285; educational, 272, 276; pedagogical, 281
Preston, Richard, 255
Prevant, Leon, 264
Prisons Information Group (GIP), 230, 233–36, 238, 239
production: aesthetic, 169; cultural, 110, 169, 175, 191, 194, 196; knowledge, xv, xvi, xviii, 168, 288n36
professionalization, 5, 122, 124n12
Prometheus, xx
protocols, xxii, 7, 38, 42, 47, 49, 151, 241, 281, 282
psychoanalysis, xii, 43, 147, 149
psychoendocrinology, 46, 47, 48
psychology, xii, 57, 58, 107, 156, 271; academic, 48; developmental, 83; traditional, 109
Psychology of Nonviolence, The (Pelton), 232
psychopathology, 43
psychosexual orientation, 42, 43
Queer/Crip coalition, 236–46
queer scholars, 285
queer theory, 111
questions, xii, 30, 96, 129; critical, 281; culture of, 278; curiosity and, xix, 89, 173–74, 269; ethical, 6; fundamental, 150; nature of, 80, 81; pedagogy of, 272; politicized, 235; quality of, 88; related, 79; right, 281; sociopolitical, xvii; why, 78
Quintana, Jesus, 100
race, 121, 177, 180, 240, 278, 285; concern and, 149–51; curiosity and, 149–51
Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 140
racial difference, typologies of, 272
racial profiling, 169
racism, xxiii, 148–49, 151, 155, 156, 158, 159–60, 162, 163, 189, 239; scientific, 271; sexism and, 180
Radcliffe, Ann, 218
“Radiant Opacity,” 168
Ranganath, Charan, xviii
Rape of the Lock, The (Pope), 216, 220
Recruiter.com, 115
reflexivity, xxii, 271, 277, 288n36
Reimer, Brenda (Joan/David), 41, 46
Reimer, David, 52n19, 53n38; suicide of, 41–42, 46
Reisman, Tamar, 199
relations: class-inclusion, 62; difference and, 173; ethics of, 172, 173; more-than-human, 27, 30, 32; radical, 173; semantic, 62; symbiotic, 277–78
relationships, xviii–xxi, 67–68, 141, 149; building, 10; measuring, 69; nuanced, 143; productive, 150
Reluctant Fundamentalist, The (film), 151
representation, 173; crisis of, 20; ideational, 150; network, 62; politics of, 169
research, 4, 29, 32; biological, 17; empirical, 69; environmental, 6, 7; ethnographic, 20; financial investment in, 5; interdisciplinary, vii, xvii, xxvn5; methods, 6, 282–83; more-than-human, 24–25; protocols, xxii; scientific, xxi, 5, 7, 12; sex, 47
resistance: curiosity and, xx, xxi, 228, 230, 239–40, 241; political, 233, 239, 241, 275; prison, 234; restroom, 238; subversive, 293
restoration, racist phantasies of, 154–57
rhetoric, 111, 114, 162, 174, 216, 281; political, 156; sexist/xenophobic, xii
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 217
Rolling Stone, 41
Rose, Edith, 239
Rose, Elena, 192
Rosenberg, Charles, xv
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, xiv
Royal Society for the Advancement of Learning, 211, 212, 214
rubber boots method, 16, 17, 34n7
Rule of Law, Misrule of Man (Scarry), 263
“Ruling Passions” (Pope), 215
safety: curiosity and, 83; emotional, 152–53, 157
Sanskrit poems, curiosity in, xxxn68
Scarry, Elaine, 263
Schepher-Hughes, Nancy, 124n4
scholarship, xiii, xx, 21; curiosity and, viii; more-than-human, 18; multispecies, 22–23; trans, 202
Schulz, Laura E., 85
science, xviii–xxi, 16, 38, 57, 137; climate, 10; curiosity and, xi, xxi–xxii, xxiii, 4, 5, 6, 11, 219; democratization of, 5; environmental, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12; ethical conduct in, 9, 12; feminist, xxiv; learning about, 87; modern, 8; network, xv