Toxic truths : environmental justice and citizen science in a post-truth age /

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Imprint:	Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2020. © 2020
Description:	xiv, 335 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Environmental justice. Environmental policy -- Citizen participation. Environmental justice. Environmental policy -- Citizen participation.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12459675

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Other authors / contributors:	Davies, Thom, editor. Mah, Alice, editor.
ISBN:	152613702X 9781526137029 9781526137012 9781526137005
Summary:	This book examines the relationship between environmental justice and citizen science, focusing on enduring issues and new challenges in a post-truth age. Debates over science, facts, and values have always been pivotal within environmental justice struggles. For decades, environmental justice activists have campaigned against the misuses of science, while at the same time engaging in community-led citizen science. However, post-truth politics has threatened science itself. This book makes the case for the importance of science, knowledge, and data that are produced by and for ordinary people living with environmental risks and hazards. The international, interdisciplinary contributions range from grassroots environmental justice struggles in American hog country and contaminated indigenous communities, to local environmental controversies in Spain and China, to questions about "knowledge justice," citizenship, participation, and data in citizen science surrounding toxicity. The book features inspiring studies of community-based participatory environmental health and justice research; different ways of sensing, witnessing, and interpreting environmental injustice; political strategies for seeking environmental justice; and ways of expanding the concepts and forms of engagement of citizen science around the world. While the book will be of critical interest to specialists in social and environmental sciences, it will also be accessible to graduate and postgraduate audiences. More broadly, the book will appeal to members of the public interested in social justice issues, as well as community members who are thinking about participating in citizen science and activism. Toxic Truths includes distinguished contributing authors in the field of environmental justice, alongside cutting-edge research from emerging scholars and community activists. -- publisher's website.
Other form:	ebook version : 9781526137012

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Tackling environmental injustice in a post-truth age / Thom Davies and Alice Mah
Part I: Environmental justice and participatory citizen science
Introduction to Part I / Alice Mah
Toxic trespass / Phil Brown, Vanessa De La Rosa and Alissa Cordner
Making effective participatory environmental health science through collaborative data analysis / Barbara L. Allen
Crude justice / Bhavna Shamasunder, Jessica Blickley, Marissa Chan, Ashley Collier-Oxandale, James L. Sadd, Sandy Navarro, Nicole J. Wong and Michael Hannigan
Environmental injustice in North Carolina's hog industry / Sarah Rhodes, KD Brown, Larry Cooper, Naeema Muhammad and Devon Hall
Part II: Sensing and witnessing injustice
Introduction to Part II / Thom Davies
The auger / Amelia Fiske
Witnessing e-waste through participatory photography in Ghana / Peter C. Little
Making sense of visual pollution / Marina Da Silva
Part III: Political strategies for seeking environmental justice
Introduction to Part III / Alice Mah
Legitimating confrontational discourses by local environmental groups / Miguel A. López-Navarro
Environmental justice in industrially contaminated sites / Roberto Pasetto and Ivano Iavarone
Soft confrontation / Xinhong Wang and Yuanni Wang
Part IV: Expanding citizen science
Introduction to Part IV / Thom Davies
Whose citizenship in "citizen science"? / : Elizabeth Hoover
Modes of engagement / João Porto de Albuquerque and André Albino de Almeida
Science, citizens, and air pollution / Anneleen Kenis
Beyond the data treadmill / Nicholas Shapiro, Nasser Zakariya and Jody A. Roberts.

Toxic truths : environmental justice and citizen science in a post-truth age /

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