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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?

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


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781842775509
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Sub Title: Globalization and the Challenge of Engagement
  • ISBN-10: 1842775502
  • Publisher Date: 20 Jan 2005
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N


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