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Science and citizens : globalization and the challenge of engagement

Title: Science and citizens : globalization and the challenge of engagement / Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones and Brian Wynne, editors.
Publication: London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

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viii, 295 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Claiming citizenship: rights, participation and accountability ; v. 2

Uniform Title

Claiming citizenship ; v. 2.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-286) and index.

Contents

Introduction: science, citizenship and globalization / Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones and Brian Wynne -- Science and citizenship in a global context / Melissa Leach and Ian Scoones -- The post-normal science of safety / Jerry Ravetz -- Are scientists irrational? Risk assessment in practical reason / Frank Fischer -- Risk as globalizing 'democratic' discourse? Framing subjects and citizens / Brian Wynne -- Knowledge, justice and democracy / Shiv Visvanathan -- Myriad stories: constructing expertise and citizenship in discussions of the new genetics / Richard Tutton, Anne Kerr and Sarah Cunningham-Burley -- AIDS, science and citizenship after apartheid / Steven Robins -- Demystifying occupational and environmental health: experiences from India / Murlidhar V. -- Absentee expertise: science advice for biotechnology regulations in developing countries / Kees Jansen and Esther Roquas -- Interrogating China's biotechnology revolution: contesting dominant science policy cultures in the risk society / James Keeley -- Environmental perception and political mobilization in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo: a comparative analysis / Anglea Alonso and Valeriano Costa -- 'Let them eat cake': GM foods and the democratic imagination / Sheila Jasanoff -- Plant biotechnology and the rights of the poor: a technographic approach / Paul Richards -- Opening up or closing down? analysis, participation and power in the social appraisal of technology / Andy Stirling -- Geographic information systems for participation / John Forrester and Steve Cinderby -- Democratizing science in the UK: the case of radioactive waste management / Jason Chilvers -- Genetic engineering in Aotearoa, New Zealand: a case of opening up or closing down debate? / Audley Genus and Tee Rogers-Hayden -- Exploring food and farming futures in Zimbabwe: a citizens' jury and scenario workshop experiment / Elijah Rusike.

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JFD 05-4370

ISBN

1842775502 (hbk.)
1842775510 (pbk.)

LCCN

2004057236

OCLC

56482126

Title

Science and citizens : globalization and the challenge of engagement / Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones and Brian Wynne, editors.

Imprint

London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Series

Claiming citizenship: rights, participation and accountability ; v. 2

Claiming citizenship ; v. 2.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-286) and index.

Added Author

Leach, Melissa.

Scoones, Ian.

Wynne, Brian, 1947-

Research Call Number

JFD 05-4370

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