Citizens, experts, and the environment : the politics of local knowledge
Claims that the problematic communication gap between experts and ordinary citizens is best remedied by a renewal of local citizen participation in deliberative structures. This study will interest political scientists, public policy practitioners, sociologists, scientists, environmentalists, activists, urban planners, and public administrators.
xiv, 336 pages ; 24 cm
9780822326281, 9780822326229, 0822326280, 0822326221
43662149
Preface ixPart I. Citizens and Experts in the Risk Society 11. Democratic Prospects in an Age of Expertise: Confronting the Technocratic Challenge 52. Professional Knowledge and Citizen Participation: Rethinking Expertise 293. Environmental Crisis and the Technocratic Challenge: Expertise in the Risk Society 474. The Return of the Particular: Scientific Inquiry and Local Knowledge in Postpositivist Perspective 68Part II. Environmental Politics in the Public Sphere: Technical versus Cultural Rationality 875. Science and Politics in Environmental Regulation: The Politicization of Expertise 896. Confronting Experts in the Public Sphere: The Environmental Movement as Cultural Politics 1097. Not in My Backyard: Risk Assessment and the Politics of Cultural Rationality 124Part III. Local Knowledge and Participatory Inquiry: Methodological Practices for Political Empowerment 1438. Citizens as Local Experts: Popular Epidemiology and Participatory Resource Mapping 1479. Community Inquiry and Local Knowledge: The Political and Methodological Foundations of Participatory Research 17010. Ordinary Local Knowledge: From Potato Farming to Environmental Protection 193Part IV. Discursive Institutions and Policy Epistemics 21911. Discursive Institutions for Environmental Policy Making: Participatory Inquiry as Civic Discovery 22112. The Environments of Argument: Deliberative Practices and Policy Epistemics 242Appendixes 263Notes 279References 299Index 329