Science and Citizens: Globalization and the Challenge of Engagement (review)

作者：Thora Margareta Bertilsson · 发表于：The Canadian Journal of Sociology · 年份：2006 · DOI：10.1353/cjs.2006.0048 · 被引用次数：250 · 研究领域：Economic, financial, and policy analysis、Academic Research and Education Studies

Reviewed by: Science and Citizens, Globalization and the Challenge of Engagement Thora Margareta Bertilsson Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones and Brian Wynne (eds.), Science and Citizens, Globalization and the Challenge of Engagement, London/New York: Zed Books, 2005, 295 pp. The book under review is volume 5 in a larger series entitled Claiming citizenship: rights, participation and accountability. The underlying theme of this series is to increase the attention on issues of rights and citizenship seen in different settings. The globalisation process entails, amongst other things, an expansion of science claims at the same time as 'publics' are formed around the world questioning and opposing science as a new discursive form of colonialism. The special contribution of this volume is to bring together two hitherto separate strands of inquiry: STS studies and Developmental Studies (DS). In the last decade, STS studies have paid increasing attention to the relation between science and its publics. Questioning the derived 'deficit model' and its fixed asymmetry between experts (knower) and lay people (ignorant), science studies have brought forth new forms of more engaged relations. Alan Irwin coined the term 'Citizen Science' in his attempts to have science communication flowing both ways: lay people in dialogues with experts, eventually resulting in a reversal of fixed roles. Established science has lost much of its traditional authority, not the least in Great Britain due to various...