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Science and Citizens
Globalization and the Challenge of Engagement
Science and Citizens
Globalization and the Challenge of Engagement
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 variety of pressing issues is explored, such as medical genetics, agricultural biotechnology, occupational health and HIV/AIDS. Drawing upon rich case studies from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe, Science and Citizens asks:
· Do new perspectives on science, expertise and citizenship emerge from comparing cases across different issues and settings?
· What difference does globalisation make?
· What does this tell us about approaches to risk, regulation and public participation?
· How might the notion of 'cognitive justice' help to further debate and practice?
Table of Contents
Part I: Science and Citizenship
1. Introduction: Science, citizenship and globalization - Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones and Brian Wynne
2. Science and citizenship in a global context - Melissa Leach and Ian Scoones
Part II: Beyond risk: defining the terrain
Commentary - Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones and Brian Wynne
3. The post-normal science of safety - Jerry Ravetz
4. Are scientists irrational? Risk assessment in practical reason - Frank Fischer
5. Risk as globalizing 'democratic' discourse? Framing subjects and citizens - Brian Wynne
6. Knowledge, justice and democracy -Shiv Visvanathan
Part III: Citizens engaging with science
Commentary - Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones, Brian Wynne
7. Myriad stories: Constructing expertise and citizenship in discussions of the new genetics - Richard Tutton, Anne Kerr and Sarah Cunningham-Burley
8. AIDS, science and citizenship after apartheid - Steven Robins
9. Demystifying occupational and environmental health: Experiences from India- Murlidhar V.
10. Absentee expertise: Science advice for biotechnology regulation in developing countries - Kees Jansen and Esther Roquas
11. Interrogating China's biotechnology revolution: Contesting dominant science policy cultures in the risk society - James Keeley
12. Environmental perception and political mobilization in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo: A comparative analysis - Angela Alonso and Valeriano Costa
13. 'Let Them Eat Cake': GM Foods and the Democratic Imagination - Sheila Jasanoff
14. Plant biotechnology and the rights of the poor: A technographic approach - Paul Richards
Part IV: Participation and the politics of engagement
Commentary - Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones, Brian Wynne
15. Opening up or closing down? Analysis, participation and power in the social appraisal of technology - Andy Stirling
16. Geographic information systems for participation - John Forrester and Steve Cinderby
17. Democratizing science in the UK: The case of radioactive waste management - Jason Chilvers
18. Genetic engineering in Aotearoa New Zealand: A case of opening up or closing down debate? - Audley Genus and Tee Rogers-Hayden
19. Exploring food and farming futures in Zimbabwe: A citizens' jury and scenario workshop experiment - Elijah Rusik
Product details
| Published | 29 Feb 2008 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 304 |
| ISBN | 9781848131699 |
| Imprint | Zed Books |
| Series | Claiming Citizenship |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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