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Refining Expertise - How Responsible Engineers Subvert Environmental Justice Challenges (Paperback, New)
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Refining Expertise - How Responsible Engineers Subvert Environmental Justice Challenges (Paperback, New)
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Winner of the 2015 Rachel Carson Prize presented by the Society for
Social Studies of Science Residents of a small Louisiana town were
sure that the oil refinery next door was making them sick. As part
of a campaign demanding relocation away from the refinery, they
collected scientific data to prove it. Their campaign ended with a
settlement agreement that addressed many of their grievances-but
not concerns about their health. Yet, instead of continuing to
collect data, residents began to let refinery scientists'
assertions that their operations did not harm them stand without
challenge. What makes a community move so suddenly from actively
challenging to apparently accepting experts' authority? Refining
Expertise argues that the answer lies in the way that refinery
scientists and engineers defined themselves as experts. Rather than
claiming to be infallible, they began to portray themselves as
responsible-committed to operating safely and to contributing to
the well-being of the community. The volume shows that by grounding
their claims to responsibility in influential ideas from the larger
culture about what makes good citizens, nice communities, and moral
companies, refinery scientists made it much harder for residents to
challenge their expertise and thus re-established their authority
over scientific questions related to the refinery's health and
environmental effects. Gwen Ottinger here shows how industrial
facilities' current approaches to dealing with concerned
communities-approaches which leave much room for negotiation while
shielding industry's environmental and health claims from
critique-effectively undermine not only individual grassroots
campaigns but also environmental justice activism and far-reaching
efforts to democratize science. This work drives home the need for
both activists and politically engaged scholars to reconfigure
their own activities in response, in order to advance community
health and robust scientific knowledge about it.
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