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

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

by Sabrina McCormick
ISBN-10:
1439900094
ISBN-13:
9781439900093
Pub. Date:
05/15/2009
Publisher:
Temple University Press
ISBN-10:
1439900094
ISBN-13:
9781439900093
Pub. Date:
05/15/2009
Publisher:
Temple University Press
Mobilizing Science: Movements, Participation, and the Remaking of Knowledge

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

by Sabrina McCormick
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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781439900093
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 05/15/2009
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 218
Product dimensions: 5.80(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

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