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Refining Expertise - How Responsible Engineers Sub
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- Refining Expertise - How Responsible Engineers Sub
- ISBN
- 9780814762387
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Refining Expertise: How Responsible Engineers Subvert Environmental Justice Challenges
- Item Height
- 229 mm
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Subject
- Engineering & Technology, Anthropology
- Item Weight
- 363 g
- Item Width
- 152 mm
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Winner of the 2015 Rachel Carson Prize presented by the Society for Social Studies of Science Residents of a small Louisiana town were sure that the oil refinery next door was making them sick. As part of a campaign demanding relocation away from the refinery, they collected scientific data to prove it. Their campaign ended with a settlement agreement that addressed many of their grievances-but not concerns about their health. Yet, instead of continuing to collect data, residents began to let refinery scientists' assertions that their operations did not harm them stand without challenge. What makes a community move so suddenly from actively challenging to apparently accepting experts' authority? Refining Expertise argues that the answer lies in the way that refinery scientists and engineers defined themselves as experts. Rather than claiming to be infallible, they began to portray themselves as responsible-committed to operating safely and to contributing to the well-being of the community. The volume shows that by grounding their claims to responsibility in influential ideas from the larger culture about what makes good citizens, nice communities, and moral companies, refinery scientists made it much harder for residents to challenge their expertise and thus re-established their authority over scientific questions related to the refinery's health and environmental effects. Gwen Ottinger here shows how industrial facilities' current approaches to dealing with concerned communities-approaches which leave much room for negotiation while shielding industry's environmental and health claims from critique-effectively undermine not only individual grassroots campaigns but also environmental justice activism and far-reaching efforts to democratize science. This work drives home the need for both activists and politically engaged scholars to reconfigure their own activities in response, in order to advance community health and robust scientific knowledge about it.
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Publisher
New York University Press
ISBN-13
9780814762387
eBay Product ID (ePID)
139748214
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Refining Expertise: How Responsible Engineers Subvert Environmental Justice Challenges
Publication Year
2013
Subject
Engineering & Technology, Anthropology
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
229 mm
Item Weight
363 g
Item Width
152 mm
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United States
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