Ottinger, Gwen
Refining Expertise
- ISBN 13:
- 9780814762387
- author:
- Ottinger, Gwen
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- NYU Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2013
- Pages:
- 240
- Dimensions:
- 22.61 x 14.99 x 2.03 centimetres
- Genre:
- Social Sciences, Anthropology
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Refining Expertise: How Responsible Engineers Subvert Environmental Justice Challenges
Gwen Ottinger examines how industrial facilities approach dealing with concerned communities, revealing how their methods undermine environmental justice activism and democratization of science.
The author shows that by grounding their claims to responsibility in influential ideas from the larger culture, refinery scientists made it harder for residents to challenge their expertise, effectively re-establishing their authority over scientific questions related to the refinery's health and environmental effects.
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