Refining Expertise : : How Responsible Engineers Subvert Environmental Justice Challenges / / Gwen Ottinger.
Winner of the 2015 Rachel Carson Prize presented by the Society for Social Studies of ScienceResidents 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...
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Ottinger, Gwen, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Refining Expertise : How Responsible Engineers Subvert Environmental Justice Challenges / Gwen Ottinger. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2013] ©2013 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. The Battlefront -- 2. Dangerous Stories -- 3. Noisome Neighbors -- 4. From Deliberation to Dialogue -- 5. Responsible Refiners -- 6. Passive Revolution and Resistance -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Winner of the 2015 Rachel Carson Prize presented by the Society for Social Studies of ScienceResidents 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 fromcritique—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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Environmental responsibility United States. Petroleum industry and trade United States Louisiana New Sarpy United States Electronic books. Petroleum industry and trade United States. Petroleum refineries Environmental aspects Louisiana New Sarpy. Social responsibility of business United States. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110706444 print 9780814762370 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814762370.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814762394 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814762394/original |
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