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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814659703321

Autore

McCormick Sabrina

Titolo

Mobilizing science : movements, participation, and the remaking of knowledge / / Sabrina McCormick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-11558-8

9786612115585

1-4399-0011-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Disciplina

303.48/3

Soggetti

Science and state - Citizen participation

Technology and state - Citizen participation

Science - Decision making - Citizen participation

Technology - Decision making - Citizen participation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Democratizing science movements: conditions for success and failure -- The environmental breast cancer movement and the scientific basis for contestation -- Dam impacts and anti-dam protest -- Government institutions and corporate interests: instigating movement challenge -- Democratizing science -- Democratizing science as a mechanism of co-optation -- Long-term struggles and uncertain futures -- A case for making science accountable.

Sommario/riassunto

Mobilizing Science theoretically and empirically explores the rise of a new kind of social movement-one that attempts to empower citizens through the use of expert scientific research. Sabrina McCormick advances theories of social movements, development, and science and technology studies by examining how these fields intersect in cases around the globe. McCormick grounds her argument in two very different case studies: the anti-dam movement in Brazil and the environmental breast cancer prevention movement in the U.S.  These, and many other cases, show that