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1044439
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b798809
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Science and citizens : : globalization and the challenge of engagement /\ Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones, and Brian Wynne, editors ; [foreword by John Gaventa].
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Zed Books,, 2005.
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| Series Statement
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Claiming citizenship : rights, participation and accountability ;; v. 2
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1 online resource (viii, 295 pages).
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| ISBN
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1842775510
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: 1848131690
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: 9781842775516
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: 9781848131699
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1842775502
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1842775510
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9781842775509
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9781842775516
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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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 varie.
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Biology-- Social aspects.
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Biotechnology-- Social aspects.
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Globalization.
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Science-- Social aspects.
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World citizenship.
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Biologie-- Aspect social.
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Biotechnologie-- Aspect social.
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Citoyenneté mondiale.
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Mondialisation.
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Sciences-- Aspect social.
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Biology-- Social aspects.
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Biotechnologie
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Biotechnology-- Social aspects.
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Globalisierung
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Globalization.
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SCIENCE-- Philosophy Social Aspects.
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Science-- Social aspects.
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Soziale Funktion
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Weltbürgertum
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World citizenship.
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Biotechnologie.
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Burger en overheid.
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Gezondheidszorg.
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Internationalisatie.
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Sociale ontwikkeling.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.4/5
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| LC Classification
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QH333.S35 2005eb
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89.06bcl
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| Added Entry
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Leach, Melissa.
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Scoones, Ian.
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Wynne, Brian,1947-
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| Parallel Title
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Globalization & the challenge of engagement
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: Globalization and the challenge of engagement
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