Science and Citizens Globalization and the Challenge of Engagement,9781842775516

Science and Citizens Globalization and the Challenge of Engagement

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ISBN13: 9781842775516
ISBN10: 1842775510
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-05-06
Publisher(s): Zed Books
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Summary

This volume brings together authors from diverse experiences and analytical traditions, encouraging a conversation between science and technology and development studies around issues of science, citizenship and globalization. The book reflects on the nature of expertise; the framing of knowledge; processes of public engagement; and issues of rights, justice and democracy. Different case studies cover issues ranging from medical genetics, agricultural biotechnology, occupational health and HIV/AIDS in settings including rural Sierra Leone, urban Britain, China, South Africa, India and Brazil.

Author Biography

Melissa Leach is a Professorial Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex.

Ian Scoones is a Professorial Fellow with the Environment Group.

Brian Wynne is Professor of Science Studies at the Institute for Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy, Furness College, Lancaster University

Table of Contents

Foreword by John Gaventa vii
one Science and citizenship
1 Introduction: science, citizenship and globalization
3(12)
MELISSA LEACH, IAN SCOONES AND BRIAN WYNNE
2 Science and citizenship in a global context
15(26)
MELISSA LEACH AND IAN SCOONES
two Beyond risk: defining the terrain
Commentary
41(56)
MELISSA LEACH, IAN SCOONES AND BRIAN WYNNE
3 The post-normal science of safety
43(11)
JERRY RAVETZ
4 Are scientists irrational? Risk assessment in practical reason
54(12)
FRANK FISCHER
5 Risk as globalizing 'democratic' discourse? Framing subjects and citizens
66(17)
BRIAN WYNNE
6 Knowledge, justice and democracy
83(14)
SHIV VISVANATHAN
three Citizens engaging with science
Commentary
97(45)
MELISSA LEACH, IAN SCOONES AND BRIAN WYNNE
7 Myriad stories: constructing expertise and citizenship in discussions of the new genetics
101(12)
RICHARD TUTTON, ANNE KERR AND SARAH CUNNINGHAM-BURLEY
8 AIDS, science and citizenship after apartheid
113(17)
STEVEN ROBINS
9 Demystifying occupational and environmental health: experiences from India
130(12)
MURLIDHAR V.
10 Absentee expertise: science advice for biotechnology regulation in developing countries
142(13)
KEES JANSEN AND ESTHER ROQUAS
11 Interrogating China's biotechnology revolution: contesting dominant science policy cultures in the risk society
155(12)
JAMES KEELEY
12 Environmental perception and political mobilization in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo: a comparative analysis
167(16)
ANGELA ALONSO AND VALERIANO COSTA
13 'Let them eat cake': GM foods and the democratic imagination
183(16)
SHEILA JASANOFF
14 Plant biotechnology and the rights of the poor: a technographic approach
199(16)
PAUL RICHARDS
four Participation and the politics of engagement
Commentary
215(3)
MELISSA LEACH, IAN SCOONES AND BRIAN WYNNE
15 Opening up or closing down? Analysis, participation and power in the social appraisal of technology
218(14)
ANDY STIRLING
16 Geographic information systems for participation
232(5)
JOHN FORRESTER AND STEVE CINDERBY
17 Democratizing science in the UK: the case of radioactive waste management
237(7)
JASON CHILVERS
18 Genetic engineering in Aotearoa, New Zealand: a case of opening up or closing down debate?
244(5)
AUDLEY GENUS AND TEE ROGERS-HAYDEN
19 Exploring food and farming futures in Zimbabwe: a citizens' jury and scenario workshop experiment
249(7)
ELIJAH RUSIKE
List of contributors 256(6)
Bibliography 262(25)
Index 287

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