ISBN:
1842775502
,
1842775510
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 295 p)
,
25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Claiming citizenship : rights, participation, and accountability
Parallel Title:
Print version Science and Citizens : Globalization and the Challenge of Engagement
DDC:
306.4/5
Keywords:
World citizenship
;
Science Social aspects
;
Globalization
;
Biology Social aspects
;
Biotechnology Social aspects
Abstract:
Rapid advances and new technologies in the life sciences - such as biotechnologies in health, agricultural and environmental arenas - pose a range of pressing challenges to questions of citizenship. This volume brings together for the first time authors from diverse experiences and analytical traditions, encouraging a conversation between science and technology and development studies around issues of science, citizenship and globalisation. It reflects on the nature of expertise; the framing of knowledge; processes of public engagement; and issues of rights, justice and democracy. A wide varie
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Foreword by John Gaventa ; ONE - Science and citizenship; 1 - Introduction: science, citizenship and globalization ; 2 - Science and citizenship in a global context ; TWO - Beyond risk: defining the terrain; 3 - The post-normal science of safety ; 4 - Are scientists irrational? Risk assessment in practical reason; 5 - Risk as globalizing 'democratic' discourse? Framing subjects and citizens ; 6 - Knowledge, justice and democracy ; THREE - Citizens engaging with science; 7 - Myriad stories: constructing expertise and citizenship in discussions of the new genetics
Description / Table of Contents:
8 - AIDS, science and citizenship after apartheid 9 - Demystifying occupational and environmental health: experiences from India; 10 - Absentee expertise: science advice for biotechnology regulation in developing countries ; 11 - Interrogating China's biotechnology revolution: contesting dominant science policy cultures; 12 - Environmental perception and political mobilization in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo; 13 - 'Let them eat cake': GM foods and the democratic imagination; 14 - Plant biotechnology and the rights of the poor: a technographic approach
Description / Table of Contents:
FOUR - Participation and the politics of engagement15 - Opening up or closing down? Analysis, participation and power; 16 - Geographic information systems for participation ; 17 - Democratizing science in the UK: the case of radioactive waste management ; 18 - Genetic engineering in Aotearoa, New Zealand: a case of opening up or closing down debate?; 19 - Exploring food and farming futures in Zimbabwe: a citizens' jury and scenario workshop; List of contributors ; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-286) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
