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Technoscience and Environmental Justice: Expert Cultures in a Grassroots Movement

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Edited by Gwen Ottinger and Benjamin Cohen
2011
Published by: The MIT Press
Series: Urban and Industrial Environments
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Case studies exploring how experts’ encounters with environmental justice are changing technical and scientific practice.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Contents

pp. v-vi

Acknowledgments

pp. vii-viii

Introduction

pp. 1-18

Part I Forging Environmentally Just Expertise

1 Who Are the Experts of Environmental Health Justice?

pp. 21-40

2 From Science-Based Legal Advocacy to Community Organizing

pp. 41-62

3 Toxic Transformations

pp. 63-92

4 Experts, Ethics, and Environmental Justice

pp. 93-118

5 Middle-out Social Change

pp. 119-146

Part II Extending Just Transformations of Expert Practice

6 Invisible People, Invisible Risks

pp. 149-178

7 Risk Assessment and Native Americans at the Cultural Crossroads

pp. 179-200

8 Uneven Transformations and Environmental Justice

pp. 201-228

9 Rupturing Engineering Education

pp. 229-248

Afterword

pp. 249-262

References

pp. 263-288

About the Authors

pp. 289-292

Index

pp. 293-298

Series List

pp. 300-302
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