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Science, Society and Power
James FairheadMelissa Leach
其他書名
Environmental Knowledge and Policy in West Africa and the Caribbean
出版Cambridge University Press, 2003-10-16
主題Nature / Environmental Conservation & ProtectionPolitical Science / GlobalizationPolitical Science / Public Policy / Environmental PolicyPolitical Science / World / AfricanPolitical Science / World / Caribbean & Latin AmericanScience / Environmental ScienceScience / Philosophy & Social AspectsSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialSocial Science / Anthropology / PhysicalSocial Science / Human GeographySocial Science / Sociology / GeneralTechnology & Engineering / Environmental / General
ISBN05215356629780521535663
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ZcWCo5WD3csC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In this book, James Fairhead and Melissa Leach bring science to the heart of debates about globalisation, exploring transformations in global science and contrasting effects in Guinea, one of the world's poorest countries, and Trinidad, a more prosperous, industrialised and urbanised island. The book focuses on environment, forestry and conservation sciences that are central to these countries and involve resources that many depend upon for their livelihoods. It examines the relationships between policies, bureaucracies and particular types of scientific enquiry and explores how ordinary people, the media and educational practices engage with this. In particular it shows how science becomes part of struggles over power, resources and legitimacy. The authors take a unique ethnographic perspective, linking approaches in anthropology, development and science studies. They address critically prominent debates in each, and explore opportunities for new forms of participation, public engagement and transformation in the social relations of science.