globalization and the challenge of engagement
Edición de la obra Science and citizens
| Autor | Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones |
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| Editorial | Zed Books, Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan |
| Fecha de publicación | 2005 |
| Lugar | London, New York, New York |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 295 |
| ISBN-10 | 1842775502, 1842775510 |
| OCLC | 56482126, 1241540129 |
| LCCN | 2004057236 |
| Serie | Claiming citizenship: rights, participation and accountability -- v. 2 · Claiming citizenship -- v. 2 |
| Número de Cutter | L434s |
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Rapid advances and new technologies in the life sciences - such as biotechnologies in health, agricultural and environmental arenas - pose a range of pressing challenges to questions of citizenship. This volume brings together for the first time authors from diverse experiences and analytical traditions, encouraging a conversation between science and technology and development studies around issues of science, citizenship and globalisation. It reflects on the nature of expertise; the framing of knowledge; processes of public engagement; and issues of rights, justice and democracy. A wide varie.