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    Mobilizing Science
    Movements, Participation, and the Remaking of Knowledge

    Sabrina McCormick (Author)

    9781439900093

    Hardback, published 15 May 2009

    218 pages
    21 x 14 x 1.8 cm, 0.666 kg

     “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 

    What forces are needed for social change in a knowledge society?

    Introduction 
    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
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