Fischer Citizens, Experts, and the Environment

The Politics of Local Knowledge
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8028-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 351 Seiten

Claims that the problematic communication gap between experts and ordinary citizens is best remedied by a renewal of local citizen participation in deliberative structures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fischer, Frank

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Part I. Citizens and Experts in the Risk Society 1

1. Democratic Prospects in an Age of Expertise: Confronting the Technocratic Challenge 5

2. Professional Knowledge and Citizen Participation: Rethinking Expertise 29

3. Environmental Crisis and the Technocratic Challenge: Expertise in the Risk Society 47

4. The Return of the Particular: Scientific Inquiry and Local Knowledge in Postpositivist Perspective 68

Part II. Environmental Politics in the Public Sphere: Technical versus Cultural Rationality 87

5. Science and Politics in Environmental Regulation: The Politicization of Expertise 89

6. Confronting Experts in the Public Sphere: The Environmental Movement as Cultural Politics 109

7. Not in My Backyard: Risk Assessment and the Politics of Cultural Rationality 124

Part III. Local Knowledge and Participatory Inquiry: Methodological Practices for Political Empowerment 143

8. Citizens as Local Experts: Popular Epidemiology and Participatory Resource Mapping 147

9. Community Inquiry and Local Knowledge: The Political and Methodological Foundations of Participatory Research 170

10. Ordinary Local Knowledge: From Potato Farming to Environmental Protection 193

Part IV. Discursive Institutions and Policy Epistemics 219

11. Discursive Institutions for Environmental Policy Making: Participatory Inquiry as Civic Discovery 221

12. The Environments of Argument: Deliberative Practices and Policy Epistemics 242

Appendixes 263

Notes 279

References 299

Index 329

Über Autor(innen)

Frank Fischer is Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University in Newark and member of the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy in New Brunswick. He is the author of Evaluating Public Policy and Technocracy and the Politics of Expertise, among other books, and has coedited a number more, including The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis and Planning, also published by Duke University Press, and Living with Nature: Environmental Politics and Cultural Discourse.