Toxic truths

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 activ...

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description 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.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-389752025-03-24T05:39:37Z Toxic truths Davies, Thom Mah, Alice environmental justice citizen science toxic truths pollution contamination environmental injustice toxics expertise toxic geography post-truth activism thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNT Social impact of environmental issues thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNP Pollution and threats to the environment thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science and technology on society 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. 2021-02-10T15:00:33Z 2021-02-10T15:00:33Z 2020-10-20T09:23:56Z 2020 book OCN: 1228606841 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42642 9781526137029 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38975 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/42642/1/9781526137005_fullhl.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/42642/1/9781526137005_fullhl.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/42642/1/9781526137005_fullhl.pdf Manchester University Press bcb4ab08-c525-4e6c-88e5-a0cf0a175533 9781526137029 352 Manchester open access
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contamination
environmental injustice
toxics
expertise
toxic geography
post-truth
activism
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Toxic truths
title Toxic truths
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title_short Toxic truths
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citizen science
toxic truths
pollution
contamination
environmental injustice
toxics
expertise
toxic geography
post-truth
activism
thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNT Social impact of environmental issues
thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNP Pollution and threats to the environment
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology
thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science and technology on society
topic_facet environmental justice
citizen science
toxic truths
pollution
contamination
environmental injustice
toxics
expertise
toxic geography
post-truth
activism
thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNT Social impact of environmental issues
thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNP Pollution and threats to the environment
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology
thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science and technology on society
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