Science and Citizens
Globalization and the Challenge of Engagement| By: | Melissa Leach |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury UK |
| Print ISBN: | 9781842775509 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781848137769 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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 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?
· What difference does globalisation make?
· What does this tell us about approaches to risk, regulation and public participation?
· How might the notion of 'cognitive justice' help to further debate and practice?