Technoscience and Environmental Justice: Expert Cultures in a Grassroots Movement
Technoscience and Environmental Justice: Expert Cultures in a Grassroots Movement
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技术科学与环境正义：草根运动中的专家文化
DOI：
10.7551/mitpress/9780262015790.001.0001
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2011
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B. R. Cohen
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作者：
G. Ottinger;B. R. Cohen
在近三十年的时间里，环境正义运动改变了环境行动主义的政治，影响了环境政策。在这个过程中，它已经将环境活动家和监管机构的注意力转向污染，有毒物质和人类健康问题，因为它们影响普通人，特别是有色人种。这本书认为，环境正义运动也开始改变科学和工程。这些章节介绍了技术专家与环境正义活动家和问题的接触的案例研究，探讨了这些互动的变革潜力。技术科学和环境正义首先研究与环境正义组织合作的技术专家的科学实践和身份，无论是通过成为活动家自己还是通过与社区分享科学信息。然后，它探讨科学家和工程师的活动，在这样的主流科学机构，监管机构和大学，环境正义的关注已经（部分）制度化，作为对环境正义行动主义的回应。所有的章节都在努力解决专家们面临的转型困难，但研究也显示了环境正义行动主义如何为改变技术实践创造机会，在某些情况下，甚至实现了重大转型。
Over the course of nearly thirty years, the environmental justice movement has changed the politics of environmental activism and influenced environmental policy. In the process, it has turned the attention of environmental activists and regulatory agencies to issues of pollution, toxics, and human health as they affect ordinary people, especially people of color. This book argues that the environmental justice movement has also begun to transform science and engineering. The chapters present case studies of technical experts' encounters with environmental justice activists and issues, exploring the transformative potential of these interactions. Technoscience and Environmental Justice first examines the scientific practices and identities of technical experts who work with environmental justice organizations, whether by becoming activists themselves or by sharing scientific information with communities. It then explore scientists' and engineers' activities in such mainstream scientific institutions as regulatory agencies and universities, where environmental justice concerns have been (partially) institutionalized as a response to environmental justice activism. All of the chapters grapple with the difficulty of transformation that experts face, but the studies also show how environmental justice activism has created opportunities for changing technical practices and, in a few cases, has even accomplished significant transformations.