Thinking Through Badgers: Researching the controversy over bovine tuberculosis and the culling of badgers
Thinking Through Badgers: Researching the controversy over bovine tuberculosis and the culling of badgers
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獾的思考：研究有关牛结核病和獾扑杀的争议
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发表时间：
2016
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Stephan Price
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“牛结核病正在严重损害英国的乳制品和牛肉产业。许多农民认为扑杀獾必须是解决方案的一部分，但在2013年，创纪录的30万人在唐宁街签署请愿书，要求政府停止计划在萨默塞特和格洛斯特郡宰杀獾，这引发了媒体争议，并标志着一场社会冲突的开始，这场冲突在英格兰各地的摄影棚、街道、田野和乡村礼堂上演。为期四年的试验扑杀始于那一年，旨在证明扑杀是应对这种疾病的一种可行方式，但政策制定者、农业、动物保护和动物福利支持者的经历和价值观大相径庭，这意味着几十年来关于獾疾病和扑杀的影响的科学研究并没有帮助解决争端。
这本书报道了由英国研究委员会资助的原创社会科学，承担了理解相关反差观点的挑战。这本书仔细听取了不同的主人公的意见，选择了科学被解释为支持不同结论的方式，并考虑了社会科学思维如何做出贡献。这本书对受新唯物主义影响的日益重要的文学--社会科学对科学战争的回应--展开了批判性的视角，并探索了围绕反对扑杀的社会运动正在出现的程度。在平易近人的散文中，这种通达所有领域的描述描述了通过混乱的研究过程发展理解的斗争，以及科学分析和哲学思考的困难。因此，它为社会科学领域的研究从业者和教师提供了宝贵的资源，也为生物科学家、自然资源保护者和农民提供了一种思考有关牲畜和野生动物疾病管理问题的途径。
"Bovine tuberculosis is seriously damaging the UK dairy and beef industry. Many farmers believe culling badgers must be part of the solution, but in 2013 a record 300,000 people signed a Downing Street petition asking the government to stop planned culls of badgers in Somerset and Gloucestershire, fuelling media controversy and signalling the beginning of a social conflict that was acted out in studios, streets, fields and village halls across England. The four-year trial culls, which began that year, aimed to establish that culling was a viable way of tackling the disease, but the widely divergent experiences and values of policy-makers, farming, conservation and animal welfare supporters means that decades of science on the disease in badgers and the effects of culling has not helped resolve the dispute.
Reporting on original, UK research council-funded social science, this book takes on the challenge of understanding the contrasting views involved. Listening carefully to what the different protagonists have to say, the book unpicks the way science is interpreted to sustain differing conclusions, and considers how social science thinking could contribute. The book develops a critical perspective on the increasingly important literature influenced by new materialism, the social science response to the Science Wars, and explores the extent to which a social movement around opposition to the culls is emerging. In approachable prose, this access-all-areas account describes the struggle to develop understanding through the messy process of research and the difficulties of scientific analysis and philosophical thought. As such, it provides a valuable resource for both research practitioners and teachers within the social sciences, as well as an accessible way for biological scientists, conservationists and farmers to reflect on the issues around the management of disease in livestock and wildlife."
农村冲突中从矛盾到对比：利用 Q 方法揭示以不同方式处理结核病的外交空间
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10.1177/0308518x17726782
发表时间：
2017
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Economy and Space
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