Description
Book SynopsisExplores the rise of a fresh kind of social movement - one that attempts to empower citizens through the use of expert scientific research. This title advances theories of social movements, development, and science and technology studies by examining how these fields intersect in cases around the globe.
Trade Review “
Mobilizing Science offers a sharp and focused analysis of the complicated relationship between scientists and lay-people in grassroots movements aimed at influencing policies on issues that have a strong technical component. McCormick grounds her arguments in two detailed cases that are extremely different in their overall contexts. Yet she is able to identify similar mechanisms at work, which have useful distinctions that are helpful in thinking about these types of movements more generally.”—William Gamson, Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Media Research and Action Project at Boston College
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Democratizing Science Movements: Conditions for Success and Failure
2. The Environmental Breast Cancer Movement and the Scientific Basis for Contestation
3. Dam Impacts and Anti-dam Protest
4. Government Institutions and Corporate Interests: Instigating Movement Challenge
5. Democratizing Science
6. Democratizing Science as a Mechanismof Co-optation
7. Long- Term Struggles and Uncertain Futures
8. A Case for Making Science Accountable
Contributors
Appendix
References
Index
