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Science and Citizens: Globalization and the Challenge of Engagement

Science and Citizens: Globalization and the Challenge of Engagement

Leach, Melissa
Scoones, Ian
Wynne, Brian

Paperback

Series: Claiming Citizenship

General Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1842775510
ISBN13: 9781842775516
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jan 1 2005
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

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 variety of pressing issues is explored, such as medical genetics, agricultural biotechnology, occupational health and HIV/AIDS. Drawing upon rich case studies from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe, Science and Citizens asks:

- Do new perspectives on science, expertise and citizenship emerge from comparing cases across different issues and settings?

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