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UNINA9910819787103321 |
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Autore |
Ottinger Gwen |
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Titolo |
Refining expertise : how responsible engineers subvert environmental justice challenges / / Gwen Ottinger |
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New York, : New York University Press, 2013 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (236 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Petroleum refineries - Environmental aspects - Louisiana - New Sarpy |
Environmental responsibility - United States |
Social responsibility of business - United States |
Petroleum industry and trade - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The battlefront -- Dangerous stories -- Noisome neighbors -- From deliberation to dialogue -- Responsible refiners -- Passive revolution and resistance. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Winner of the 2015 Rachel Carson Prize presented by the Society for Social Studies of Science Residents of a small Louisiana town were sure that the oil refinery next door was making them sick. As part of a campaign demanding relocation away from the refinery, they collected scientific data to prove it. Their campaign ended with a settlement agreement that addressed many of their grievances—but not concerns about their health. Yet, instead of continuing to collect data, residents began to let refinery scientists' assertions that their operations did not harm them stand without challenge. What makes a community move so suddenly from actively challenging to apparently accepting experts' authority? Refining Expertise argues that the answer lies in the way that refinery scientists and engineers defined themselves as experts. Rather than claiming to be infallible, they began to portray themselves as responsible—committed to operating safely and to contributing to the well-being of the community. The volume shows that by grounding their claims to responsibility in influential ideas from the larger culture about what makes good citizens, nice communities, and moral |
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