Toxic truths : Environmental justice and citizen science in a post-truth age / / ed. by Thom Davies, Alice Mah

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910424953803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2020; Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 electronic resource
• Disciplina: 363.7
• Soggetti: Social impact of environmental issues; Pollution & threats to the environment; Sociology & anthropology; Impact of science & technology on society
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Environmental justice and participatory citizen science -- Introduction to Part I -- 1 Toxic trespass -- 2 Making effective participatory environmental health science through collaborative data analysis -- 3 Crude justice -- 4 Environmental injustice in North Carolina's hog industry -- Part II: Sensing and witnessing injustice -- Introduction to Part II -- 5 The auger -- 6 Witnessing e-wastethrough participatory photography in Ghana -- 7 Making sense of visual pollution -- Part III: Political strategies for seeking environmental justice -- Introduction to Part III -- 8 Legitimating confrontational discourses by local environmental groups -- 9 Environmental justice in industrially contaminated sites -- 10 Soft confrontation -- Part IV: Expanding citizen science -- Introduction to Part IV -- 11 Whose citizenship in "citizen science"? -- 12 Modes of engagement -- 13 Science, citizens, and air pollution -- 14 Beyond the data treadmill -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative ; Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Debates over science, facts, and values are pivotal in the struggle for environmental justice. For decades, environmental justice activists have campaigned against the misuse of science, engaging in community-led citizen science that champions knowledge produced by and for ordinary people living with environmental risks and hazards. However, post-truth politics have threatened science itself. Toxic truths examines the relationship between environmental justice and citizen science, focusing on enduring issues and new challenges in a post-truth age.The volume features a range of community-based participatory environmental health and justice research projects that seek to establish different ways of sensing, witnessing, and interpreting environmental injustice. From struggles in American hog country and contaminated indigenous communities, to local environmental controversies in Spain and China, this volume examines political strategies for seeking environmental justice. With international, interdisciplinary contributions from distinguished authors, emerging scholars and community activists, Toxic truths is essential reading for those seeking to understand the cutting edge of citizen science and activism around the world.