Toxic Truths - Environmental Justice and Citizen Science in a Post-Truth Age (Hardcover)

Debates over science, facts, and values are pivotal in the struggle for environmental justice. For decades, environmental justice activists have campaigned against the misuse of science, engaging in community-led citizen science that champions knowledge produced by and for ordinary people living with environmental risks and hazards. However, post-truth politics have threatened science itself. Toxic truths examines the relationship between environmental justice and citizen science, focusing on enduring issues and new challenges in a post-truth age. The volume features a range of community-based participatory environmental health and justice research projects that seek to establish different ways of sensing, witnessing, and interpreting environmental injustice. From struggles in American hog country and contaminated indigenous communities, to local environmental controversies in Spain and China, this volume examines political strategies for seeking environmental justice. With international, interdisciplinary contributions from distinguished authors, emerging scholars and community activists, Toxic truths is essential reading for those seeking to understand the cutting edge of citizen science and activism around the world. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2020
First published:	2020
Editors:	Thom Davies • Alice Mah
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-1-5261-3702-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Impact of science & technology on society Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Social impact of environmental issues > General Promotions
LSN:	1-5261-3702-X
Barcode:	9781526137029

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