LEADER 04412nam 22006375 450 001 9910819787103321 005 20230126210152.0 010 $a0-8147-6239-5 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814762394 035 $a(CKB)2670000000331233 035 $a(EBL)1126718 035 $a(OCoLC)828793133 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000834017 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11519926 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000834017 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10979837 035 $a(PQKB)11623766 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001323548 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1126718 035 $a(OCoLC)828028184 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26023 035 $a(DE-B1597)548047 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814762394 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000331233 100 $a20200608h20132013 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|un|u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRefining Expertise $eHow Responsible Engineers Subvert Environmental Justice Challenges /$fGwen Ottinger 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cNew York University Press,$d[2013] 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (236 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8147-6238-7 311 0 $a0-8147-6237-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 205-217) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tList of Abbreviations --$t1. The Battlefront --$t2. Dangerous Stories --$t3. Noisome Neighbors --$t4. From Deliberation to Dialogue --$t5. Responsible Refiners --$t6. Passive Revolution and Resistance --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aWinner 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 companies, refinery scientists made it much harder for residents to challenge their expertise and thus re-established their authority over scientific questions related to the refinery's health and environmental effects. Gwen Ottinger here shows how industrial facilities' current approaches to dealing with concerned communities?approaches which leave much room for negotiation while shielding industry's environmental and health claims from critique?effectively undermine not only individual grassroots campaigns but also environmental justice activism and far-reaching efforts to democratize science. This work drives home the need for both activists and politically engaged scholars to reconfigure their own activities in response, in order to advance community health and robust scientific knowledge about it. 606 $aPetroleum industry and trade$zUnited States 606 $aSocial responsibility of business$zUnited States 606 $aEnvironmental responsibility$zUnited States 606 $aPetroleum refineries$xEnvironmental aspects$zLouisiana$zNew Sarpy 615 0$aPetroleum industry and trade 615 0$aSocial responsibility of business 615 0$aEnvironmental responsibility 615 0$aPetroleum refineries$xEnvironmental aspects 676 $a363.7384 700 $aOttinger$b Gwen$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01664821 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819787103321 996 $aRefining Expertise$94023077 997 $aUNINA