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Science and citizens :

(Number (ISBN

1842775510

(Number (ISBN

1848131690

(Number (ISBN

9781842775516

(Number (ISBN

9781848131699

Erroneous ISBN

1842775502

Erroneous ISBN

1842775510

Erroneous ISBN

9781842775509

Erroneous ISBN

9781842775516

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b798809

Title Proper

Science and citizens :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

globalization and the challenge of engagement /

First Statement of Responsibility

Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones, and Brian Wynne, editors ; [foreword by John Gaventa].

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Zed Books,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2005.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (viii, 295 pages).

Series Title

Claiming citizenship : rights, participation and accountability ;

Volume Designation

v. 2

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Introduction: science, citizenship and globalization / Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones and Brian Wynne -- Science and citizenship in a global context / Melissa Leach and Ian Scoones -- The post-normal science of safety / Jerry Ravetz -- Are scientists irrational? Risk assessment in practical reason / Frank Fischer -- Risk as globalizing 'democratic' discourse? Framing subjects and citizens / Brian Wynne -- Knowledge, justice and democracy / Shiv Visvanathan -- Myriad stories: constructing expertise and citizenship in discussions of the new genetics / Richard Tutton, Anne Kerr and Sarah Cunningham-Burley -- AIDS, science and citizenship after apartheid / Steven Robins -- Demystifying occupational and environmental health: experiences from India / Murlidhar V. -- Absentee expertise: science advice for biotechnology regulations in developing countries / Kees Jansen and Esther Roquas -- Interrogating China's biotechnology revolution: contesting dominant science policy cultures in the risk society / James Keeley -- Environmental perception and political mobilization in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo: a comparative analysis / Anglea Alonso and Valeriano Costa -- 'Let them eat cake': GM foods and the democratic imagination / Sheila Jasanoff -- Plant biotechnology and the rights of the poor: a technographic approach / Paul Richards -- Opening up or closing down? analysis, participation and power in the social appraisal of technology / Andy Stirling -- Geographic information systems for participation / John Forrester and Steve Cinderby -- Democratizing science in the UK: the case of radioactive waste management / Jason Chilvers -- Genetic engineering in Aotearoa, New Zealand: a case of opening up or closing down debate? / Audley Genus and Tee Rogers-Hayden -- Exploring food and farming futures in Zimbabwe: a citizens' jury and scenario workshop experiment / Elijah Rusike.

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Text of Note

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.

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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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00133352

Title

Science and citizens.

International Standard Book Number

9781842775509

Parallel Title

Globalization & the challenge of engagement

Parallel Title

Globalization and the challenge of engagement

Biology-- Social aspects.

Biotechnology-- Social aspects.

Globalization.

Science-- Social aspects.

World citizenship.

Biologie-- Aspect social.

Biotechnologie-- Aspect social.

Citoyenneté mondiale.

Mondialisation.

Sciences-- Aspect social.

Biology-- Social aspects.

Biotechnologie

Biotechnologie.

Biotechnology-- Social aspects.

Burger en overheid.

Gezondheidszorg.

Globalisierung

Globalization.

Internationalisatie.

SCIENCE-- Philosophy & Social Aspects.

Science-- Social aspects.

Sociale ontwikkeling.

Soziale Funktion

Weltbürgertum

World citizenship.

JFFS

PD

SCI-- 075000

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Edition

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Book number

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Leach, Melissa.

Scoones, Ian.

Wynne, Brian,1947-

Date of Transaction

20201207112006.0

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[Book]

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