Toxic truths Environmental justice and citizen science in a post-truth age

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Debates over science, facts, and values are pivotal in the struggle for environmental justice. For decades, environmental justice activists have campaigned against the misuse of science, engaging...

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Otros Autores: Davies, Thom, editor (editor), Mah, Alice, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press [2020]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • List of contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Environmental justice and participatory citizen science
  • Introduction to Part I
  • 1 Toxic trespass
  • 2 Making effective participatory environmental health science through collaborative data analysis
  • 3 Crude justice
  • 4 Environmental injustice in North Carolina's hog industry
  • Part II: Sensing and witnessing injustice
  • Introduction to Part II
  • 5 The auger
  • 6 Witnessing e-wastethrough participatory photography in Ghana
  • 7 Making sense of visual pollution
  • Part III: Political strategies for seeking environmental justice
  • Introduction to Part III
  • 8 Legitimating confrontational discourses by local environmental groups
  • 9 Environmental justice in industrially contaminated sites
  • 10 Soft confrontation
  • Part IV: Expanding citizen science
  • Introduction to Part IV
  • 11 Whose citizenship in "citizen science"?
  • 12 Modes of engagement
  • 13 Science, citizens, and air pollution
  • 14 Beyond the data treadmill
  • Index