Contents

Foreword

Pam Grossman and John L. Jackson Jr.

Introduction: What Is Curiosity Studies?

Perry Zurn and Arjun Shankar

Part I. Interrogating the Scientific Enterprise

1. Exploring the Costs of Curiosity: An Environmental Scientist’s Dilemma

Seeta Sistla

2. Curious Ecologies of Knowledge: More-Than-Human Anthropology

Heather Anne Swanson

3. Curiosity, Ethics, and the Medical Management of Intersex Anatomies

Ellen K. Feder

Part II. Relearning How We Learn

4. A Network Science of the Practice of Curiosity

Danielle S. Bassett

5. Why Should This Be So? The Waxing and Waning of Children’s Curiosity

Susan Engel

6. The Dude Abides, or Why Curiosity Is Important for Education Today

Tyson E. Lewis

7. “The Campus Is Sick”: Capitalist Curiosity and Student Mental Health

Arjun Shankar

Part III. Reimagining How We Relate

8. Autism, Neurodiversity, and Curiosity

Kristina T. Johnson

9. Obstacles to Curiosity and Concern: Exploring the Racist Imagination

Narendra Keval

10. Curious Entanglements: Opacity and Ethical Relation in Latina/o Aesthetics

Christina León

11. Transsexuality, the Curio, and the Transgender Tipping Point

Amy Marvin

Part IV. Deconstructing the Status Quo

12. Peeping and Transgression: Curiosity and Collecting in English Literature

Barbara M. Benedict

13 Curiosity and Political Resistance

Perry Zurn

14. 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

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Index