Science and Citizens: Globalization and the Challenge of EngagementMelissa Leach, Ian Scoones, Brian Wynne 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: |
Contents
Commentary | 41 |
5 | 66 |
SHIV VISVANATHAN | 83 |
Commentary | 97 |
AIDS science and citizenship after apartheid | 113 |
science advice for biotechnology regulation | 142 |
contesting | 155 |
GM foods and the democratic imagination | 183 |
a technographic | 199 |
Commentary | 215 |
Geographic information systems for participation | 232 |
a citizens | 249 |
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