Science and citizens
Subtitle: globalization and the challenge of engagement
By: Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones and Brian Wynne, editors
Contributors: Leach, Melissa; Scoones, Ian; Wynne, Brian, 1947-
Series: Claiming citizenship: rights, participation and accountability -- v. 2; Claiming citizenship -- v. 2
Publisher: Zed Books; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Biology -- Social aspects; Science -- Social aspects; Biotechnology -- Social aspects; Globalization; World citizenship
Description: Rapid advances and new technologies in the life sciences - such as biotechnologies in health, agricultural and environmental arenas - pose a range of pressing challenges to questions of citizenship. This volume brings together for the first time authors from diverse experiences and analytical traditions, encouraging a conversation between science and technology and development studies around issues of science, citizenship and globalisation. It reflects on the nature of expertise; the framing of knowledge; processes of public engagement; and issues of rights, justice and democracy. A wide varie.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-286) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: science, citizenship and globalization / Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones and Brian Wynne; title: Science and citizenship in a global context / Melissa Leach and Ian Scoones; title: The post-normal science of safety / Jerry Ravetz; title: Are scientists irrational? Risk assessment in practical reason / Frank Fischer; title: Risk as globalizing 'democratic' discourse? Framing subjects and citizens / Brian Wynne; title: Knowledge, justice and democracy / Shiv Visvanathan; title: Myriad stories: constructing expertise and citizenship in discussions of the new genetics / Richard Tutton, Anne Kerr and Sarah Cunningham-Burley; title: AIDS, science and citizenship after apartheid / Steven Robins; title: Demystifying occupational and environmental health: experiences from India / Murlidhar V.; title: Absentee expertise: science advice for biotechnology regulations in developing countries / Kees Jansen and Esther Roquas; title: Interrogating China's biotechnology revolution: contesting dominant science policy cultures in the risk society / James Keeley; title: Environmental perception and political mobilization in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo: a comparative analysis / Anglea Alonso and Valeriano Costa; title: 'Let them eat cake': GM foods and the democratic imagination / Sheila Jasanoff; title: Plant biotechnology and the rights of the poor: a technographic approach / Paul Richards; title: Opening up or closing down? analysis, participation and power in the social appraisal of technology / Andy Stirling; title: Geographic information systems for participation / John Forrester and Steve Cinderby; title: Democratizing science in the UK: the case of radioactive waste management / Jason Chilvers; title: Genetic engineering in Aotearoa, New Zealand: a case of opening up or closing down debate? / Audley Genus and Tee Rogers-Hayden; title: Exploring food and farming futures in Zimbabwe: a citizens' jury and scenario workshop experiment / Elijah Rusike