This book brings together many of the top scholars at the intersection of science and technology studies and environmental justice studies to explore how scientists and engineers engage with environmental justice issues and activists, often in the face of significant institutional constraints. Through detailed case studies, the scholars break new ground by showing how both the topics studied and methods used to understand difficult environmental justice issues have undergone significant innovation.
David Hess, Professor of Sociology, Vanderbilt University
This collection brings empirical insight and fresh analytical perspective to issues of science, engineering, and environmental justice. In presenting scientific identities and practices as dynamic rather than static, it takes us beyond science-citizen dualities and opens up transformative possibilities for both science and environmental change.
Alan Irwin, Copenhagen Business School; author of Citizen Science
The questions raised by the authors about environmental justice and the transformation of science and engineering related to environmental decision making are important and have been largely neglected in the literature until very recently. The rigorous and scholarly discussion of how risk science can be transformed by values associated with the environmental justice movement is quite impressive.
Elaine Vaughan, Research Professor and Professor Emerita of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California, Irvine
Technoscience and Environmental Justice provides a valuable resource for thinking about how to alter scientific and engineering practice … and to better serve our democratic aspirations.
Organization and Environment
…collection shows how confronting structural inequities through community-based projects can achieve transformative political change.
Choice
Technoscience and Environmental Justice helps demonstrate that our scientific practices are always changing and can be brought into useful alignment with citizens and society while still contributing to the development of a more robust scientific understanding of the world.
Chemical Heritage Magazine
