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Toxic truths
Environmental justice and citizen science in a post-truth age
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Edited by:
Thom Davies
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2020
About this book
Post-truth politics have threatened science itself. Drawing on case studies from around the world, Toxic Truths examines enduring issues and new challenges for tackling environmental injustice in a post-truth age.
Topics
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Front matter
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Contents
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List of figures
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List of tables
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List of contributors
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Acknowledgments
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List of abbreviations
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Introduction
1 - Part I: Environmental justice and participatory citizen science
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Introduction to Part I
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1 Toxic trespass
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2 Making effective participatory environmental health science through collaborative data analysis
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3 Crude justice
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4 Environmental injustice in North Carolina’s hog industry
99 - Part II: Sensing and witnessing injustice
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Introduction to Part II
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5 The auger
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6 Witnessing e-wastethrough participatory photography in Ghana
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7 Making sense of visual pollution
158 - Part III: Political strategies for seeking environmental justice
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Introduction to Part III
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8 Legitimating confrontational discourses by local environmental groups
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9 Environmental justice in industrially contaminated sites
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10 Soft confrontation
220 - Part IV: Expanding citizen science
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Introduction to Part IV
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11 Whose citizenship in “citizen science”?
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12 Modes of engagement
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13 Science, citizens, and air pollution
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14 Beyond the data treadmill
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Index
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
July 14, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9781526137005
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook ISBN:
9781526137005
Keywords for this book
Environmental justice; Citizen science; Post-truth; Pollution; Community-based participatory research; Environmental health; Toxicity; Expertise; Environment; Activism
Audience(s) for this book
College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
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BY-NC-ND 4.0
