Overview

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 variety of pressing issues is explored, such as medical genetics, agricultural biotechnology, occupational health and HIV/AIDS. Drawing upon rich case studies from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe, Science and Citizens asks: · Do new perspectives on science, expertise and citizenship emerge from comparing cases across different issues and settings? · What difference does globalisation make? · What does this tell us about approaches to risk, regulation and public participation? · How might the notion of ‘cognitive justice‘ help to further debate and practice?

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Author:   Melissa Leach ,  Ian Scoones ,  Brian Wynne
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Zed Books Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 13.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.381kg
ISBN:  

9781842775516

ISBN 10:   1842775510
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   20 January 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword - John Gaventa Part I: Science and Citizenship 1. Introduction: Science, citizenship and globalization - Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones and Brian Wynne 2. Science and citizenship in a global context - Melissa Leach and Ian Scoones Part II: Beyond risk: defining the terrain Commentary - Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones and Brian Wynne 3. The post-normal science of safety - Jerry Ravetz 4. Are scientists irrational? Risk assessment in practical reason - Frank Fischer 5. Risk as globalizing 'democratic' discourse? Framing subjects and citizens - Brian Wynne 6. Knowledge, justice and democracy -Shiv Visvanathan Part III: Citizens engaging with science Commentary - Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones, Brian Wynne 7. Myriad stories: Constructing expertise and citizenship in discussions of the new genetics - Richard Tutton, Anne Kerr and Sarah Cunningham-Burley 8. AIDS, science and citizenship after apartheid - Steven Robins 9. Demystifying occupational and environmental health: Experiences from India- Murlidhar V. 10. Absentee expertise: Science advice for biotechnology regulation in developing countries - Kees Jansen and Esther Roquas 11. Interrogating China's biotechnology revolution: Contesting dominant science policy cultures in the risk society - James Keeley 12. Environmental perception and political mobilization in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo: A comparative analysis - Angela Alonso and Valeriano Costa 13. 'Let Them Eat Cake': GM Foods and the Democratic Imagination - Sheila Jasanoff 14. Plant biotechnology and the rights of the poor: A technographic approach - Paul Richards Part IV: Participation and the politics of engagement Commentary - Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones, Brian Wynne 15. Opening up or closing down? Analysis, participation and power in the social appraisal of technology - Andy Stirling 16. Geographic information systems for participation - John Forrester and Steve Cinderby 17. Democratizing science in the UK: The case of radioactive waste management - Jason Chilvers 18. Genetic engineering in Aotearoa New Zealand: A case of opening up or closing down debate? - Audley Genus and Tee Rogers-Hayden 19. Exploring food and farming futures in Zimbabwe: A citizens' jury and scenario workshop experiment - Elijah Rusik

Reviews

With many citizens' networks around the world responding in forceful and creative ways to modern scientific interventions in their worlds and their environments, this is a very timely and well-focussed collection of articles and insights. The global scope of the case-studies, and of its theoretical and normative perspectives is particularly novel and a uniquely valuable contribution to some of the world's most pressing issues - Ulrich Beck, Professor of Sociology, University of Munich This volume is a unique blend of two, hitherto separate, streams of work - science and technology studies and development studies. It highlights the contrasting idealizations of citizens and citizenship underlying both mainstream science policy and critical perspectives. It raises fundamental questions about the central role that has been assigned to managing risk in the theory and practice of contemporary government. The southern perspective provides a timely warning that, far from being a panacea, escalating demands for public participation have paradoxical potential to disempower.' - Steve Rayner, James Martin Professor of Science and Civilization, University of Oxford 'The overall admirable aim of the book, consisting of provocative and well-written essays, is to bring together modern work in science studies and disciplines devoted to investigating global and national development. If ever a work was devoted to constructing an obscure expert-driven subject inaccessible to the citizen, this is it.' - Christopher Lawrence, The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL 'Makes a major contribution to debates about the relationship between science and society - debates that are immediately relevant to a food sector recovering from BSE, Foot and Mouth Disease and the controversy over GM crops.' Bulletin of the Food Ethics Council, Spring 2006 '[Highlighting] the politics in science and how science has in the past been used by the establishment to consolidate its power...the book is an example of what a genuine ideological and intellectual commitment to the philosophy of participation can produce.' - Development and Change

Author Information

Professor Melissa Leach is a social anthropologist and Professorial Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. Ian Scoones is a Professorial Fellow with the Environment Group, of which he has been team leader in the past. He came to IDS in 1995 from the International Institute of Environment and Development in London. Professor Brian Wynne is Professor of Science Studies at the Institute for Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy, Furness College, Lancaster University

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