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1 online resource (viii, 295 pages). |
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| Series |
Claiming citizenship : rights, participation and accountability ; v. 2 |
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Claiming citizenship ; v. 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
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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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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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Local Note |
EBSCOhost Science Reference Center |
| Subject |
Biology -- Social aspects.
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Science -- Social aspects.
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Biotechnology -- Social aspects.
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Globalization.
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World citizenship.
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SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
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Biology -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00832470
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Biotechnology -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00832780
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Globalization. (OCoLC)fst00943532
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Science -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01108360
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World citizenship. (OCoLC)fst01181336
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Biotechnologie.
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Soziale Funktion.
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Weltbürgertum.
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Globalisierung.
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Burger en overheid.
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Gezondheidszorg.
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Sociale ontwikkeling.
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Biotechnologie.
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Internationalisatie.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Leach, Melissa.
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Scoones, Ian.
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Wynne, Brian, 1947-
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| Added Title |
Globalization and the challenge of engagement |
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Globalization & the challenge of engagement |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Science and citizens. London ; New York : Zed Books, 2005 1842775502 9781842775509 (DLC) 2004057236 (OCoLC)56482126 |
| ISBN |
9781848131699 (electronic book) |
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1848131690 (electronic book) |
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1842775502 (cased) |
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1842775510 (limp) |
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9781842775509 (cased) |
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9781842775516 (limp) |
| Standard No. |
9781842775516 |
| ISBN |
1842775510 |
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9781842775516 |
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