Mobilizing science [[electronic resource] ] : movements, participation, and the remaking of knowledge / / Sabrina McCormick

• Autore: McCormick Sabrina
• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (219 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.48/3
• Soggetto topico: Science and state - Citizen participation; Technology and state - Citizen participation; Science - Decision making - Citizen participation; Technology - Decision making - Citizen participation
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Mobilizing science
• ISBN: 1-282-11558-8; 9786612115585; 1-4399-0011-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777954903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II