Sabrina McCormick

Mobilizing Science: Movements, Participation, and the Remaking of Knowledge

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What forces are needed for social change in a knowledge society?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Temple University Press
• New
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 389g
• ISBN-13: 9781439900093
• ISBN-10: 1439900094
• Artikelnr.: 25941600

Autorenporträt

Sabrina McCormick is Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Policy & Sociology, Michigan State University. She is the author of No Family History: Finding the Environmental Links to Breast Cancer.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 
1. Democratizing Science Movements: Conditions for Success and Failure 
2. The Environmental Breast Cancer Movement and the Scientific Basis for
Contestation 
3. Dam Impacts and Anti-dam Protest 
4. Government Institutions and Corporate Interests: Instigating Movement
Challenge 
5. Democratizing Science 
6. Democratizing Science as a Mechanismof Co-optation 
7. Long- Term Struggles and Uncertain Futures 
8. A Case for Making Science Accountable 
Contributors 
Appendix 
References 
Index