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A New Ecology of Knowledge: Index

A New Ecology of Knowledge

Index

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

accommodation, 150, 151, 238

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

agriculture, 19, 24, 30

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

Anthropocene, 15, 16, 25

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

Auerbach, Nina, 219, 220

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

Barabási-Albert model, 64, 65

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

Beltrán, Cristina, 170, 171

Benedict, Barbara, xx, xxiii

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

biodiversity, 7, 8

biology, 17–18, 43, 47, 57

biomedicine, xii, 6, 202

biopolitics, 176, 177, 230

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

Bouncing Raisins, 86, 87

boundaries, 152, 291; gender, 223; geographical, 150; physical/conceptual, xviii

Bowie, David, 198

Bowlby, John, 83

Boyle, Richard, 213

Boyle, Robert, 211, 212

breastfeeding, trans women, 199, 200, 201

Brexit, 148, 155, 156

British Museum, 214

Brooks, Peter, 217

brown coal beds, 18, 26–27, 30, 31; enacting curiosities at, 23–25

Bubandt, Nils, 17, 34n7

Bullough, Vern, 46, 47

bureaucracy, 5, 122, 227

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

carbon footprint, 4, 8, 10

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

cinema, 100, 101, 103, 104

cissexuals, 195

civilization, 229, 250, 262, 263, 265, 267n13; consciousness and, 228; end of, 251

civil rights, 231, 232

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

Colapinto, John, 41, 42

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

corruption, 154–57, 161, 218

Cottegnies, Line, xx

Crapanzano, Vincent, 20, 23

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

cura, 181, 210, 247

curio, 181, 191–94, 198

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

Descartes, René, xiv, 37, 38

desegregation, 236, 239

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

disabled people, 154, 240

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

Disney, Walt, 193, 194

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

Du Bois, W. E. B., 233, 274

“Dude Looks Like a Lady” (Aerosmith), 196

Durkheim, Emile, 109

Durrani, Mariam, 269

Dvorak, Antonin, 140

Dweck, Carol, 286n8

dystopias, 254, 267n12

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

empiricism, 212, 214, 218

endocrinology, 44, 52n25, 203

engagement, 113, 184, 191; abrasive, 159; dialogical, 281; peer-to-peer, 284

Engel, Susan, xix, xxii

Enlightenment, xix, 209, 218, 223

Enloe, Cynthia, xx, 273

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

European Union, 31, 148, 156

Eve, xx, 209, 248

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

fatalism, 115, 125n22

Feder, Ellen, xxi

feedback, 43, 86, 88, 141

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

Forster, E. M., 247, 265

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

Freud, Sigmund, 149, 213, 247

Fried, Dana, 200–201, 210

Frye, Marilyn, 197, 198

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

Future World, 193, 194, 198

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

Grande, Sandy, xxiv, 280

Gray, Dorian, 183

Green, Jamison, 195

Gregory the Great, xiv

group-think, 5, 9

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

Hampson, Joan, 41, 43

Hampson, John, 41, 43

Haraway, Donna, 18, 23, 28, 33, 203; curiosity and, 21–22; on Derrida, 22

Hard Times (Dickens), 250

Harney, Stefano, 122, 124n12

Harris, Paul, 79, 80

Hart, Roger, 85

Harvard Business Review, 112–13, 115

Hausman, Bernice, 101, 195

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

heterogeneity, xviii, 18, 62

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

Hobbes, Thomas, xiv, 271

Holmes, Sherlock, 99, 209

homosexuality, 43, 44

hope, xviii, 123, 227, 271, 280, 286, 288n44

HopeLab, 113, 114

hormones, 42–43, 52n19, 203

Hot Zone, The (Preston), 255

Hughes, Martin, 78, 80

humanities, 21–22, 280

humanity, xxiii, 163, 196; curiosity and, 95; uprootedness of, 94

Hume, David, xiv

humiliation, 152, 156, 158, 160

Hurston, Zora Neale, vii

hypospadias, 44, 45, 52n27

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

James, William, xix, 130

Jenner, Caitlyn, 189

John/Joan case, 41, 46, 49

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

Kashdan, Todd, xix, 233

Kenny, Neil, xviii, xx

Keval, Narendra, xx, xxii–xxiii

Khan, Chengez, 151, 153

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

knowledge-emotion, 108, 109

knowledge-making, 23, 28, 30

Kockelman, Paul, 109

Kreitler, Hans, 134, 135

Kreitler, Schulamith, 134, 135

Kroeber, Alfred, 19, 20

Kroeber, Karl, 19, 20

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

Lewis, Tyson E., xxii, 169

literature, xii, 168, 169, 174, 209

Little Mermaid, The, 194

Llewelyn, Clara Jean, 101

Locke, John, xiv, 214, 224n10, 271

logos, xv, 176

“Lola” (Kinks), 196

London Labour and the London Poor (Mayhew), 249

Lowenstein, George, xix

Lubchenco, Jane, 11

Lugones, María, 191, 197, 198

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

masculinism, 33, 120

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

mining, 23–24, 25, 26, 27

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

modernity, xiv, 150, 185

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

Moten, Fred, 122, 124n12

motivations, xix, 41, 43, 45, 57, 85, 109, 136, 137, 139, 152, 217, 219, 285

Muldaur, Jenni, 197, 198

Mulvey, Laura, xx

“Museum of Civilization,” 260

Mushroom at the End of the World, The (Tsing), 262

music, 140, 141

Mütter Museum, 192, 193

Mysteries of Udolpho, The (Radcliffe), 218

myth, xx, 93, 149, 150, 162, 212, 232, 275, 281

Nabokov, Vladimir, 223, 228

Nair, Mira, 151

Namaste, Viviane, 189, 195

narratives, 38, 101, 151, 152, 154, 155, 248; failure, 119; false, 164; intersex, 39; racist, 150

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, 11

natural history, 17, 24

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

neuroscience, xii, 57, 58, 59

News from Nowhere (Morris), 267n12

Newton, Isaac, 211

New York Post, 199

New York Times, 123, 200, 256

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

Obama, Barack, xi, xvii

objectification, 174, 195, 196, 198

objects, 68, 85, 210, 267n11

O’Brien, Michelle, 202–3

oddities, 80, 120, 209, 217, 222, 247; medical, 192–93

Odysseus, xx

Oedipus, 149, 209

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

Pandora, xx, 209

Paradise Lost (Milton), 248

Park, Katherine, 247

parrhesiates, 229, 240

Parrish, Judith Totman, 10

Participatory Research framework, 282

Passage, The (Cronin), 255, 267n13

Patria Potestad law, 180

patriarchy, xvi, 273, 275

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

Pelton, Leroy H., 232, 233

“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

Plato, xiii, 242n22

“Playfulness, ‘World’-Travelling, and Loving Perception” (Lugones), 197

poetics, 172, 183

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

polypragmosyne, xiii, 242n22

Pope, Alexander, 213, 214, 215, 216, 220, 224n10, 225n14

popular culture, curiosity and, xi

poverty, 154–55, 156

power, 240, 280; curiosity and, 229; effects of, 228; hegemonic, 274; institutions of, 277; systems of, 121, 279

powerlessness, 152, 156, 161

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

prison studies, 233–36, 240

production: aesthetic, 169; cultural, 110, 169, 175, 191, 194, 196; knowledge, xv, xvi, xviii, 168, 288n36

professionalization, 5, 122, 124n12

Prometheus, xx

Prosopopoeia, 175, 186n17

protocols, xxii, 7, 38, 42, 47, 49, 151, 241, 281, 282

psyche, 151–54, 209

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

realism, 254, 258, 264

reassignment, 41, 46

Recruiter.com, 115

Redick, Alison, 42, 43

Reed, Lou, 196, 197, 198, 203

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

Renaissance, 209, 214

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

Schor, Hilary, xviii, xxiii

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, 61, 69–70<