Strongly Participatory Science and Knowledge Justice in an Environmentally Contested Region

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dc.contributor.authorAllen, Barbara L.en
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-24T17:01:37Zen
dc.date.available2018-07-24T17:01:37Zen
dc.date.issued2018en
dc.description.abstractThis article draws insights from a case study examining unanswered health questions of residents in two polluted towns in an industrial region in southern France. A participatory health study, as conducted by the author, is presented as a way to address undone science by providing the residents with relevant data supporting their illness claims. Local residents were included in the health survey process, from the formulation of the questions to the final data analysis. Through this strongly participatory science (SPS) process, the townspeople offered many creative ideas in the final report for how the data could be used to assist in improving their health and environment and policy work is already in evidence, resulting from the study. Drawing from the literature on participatory science and expertise as well as from the initial outcomes of the local health study, I propose that SPS produces a form of knowledge justice. Understanding knowledge and its making as part of a social justice agenda aligns well with environmental justice frames. Through SPS, local residents have a hermeneutical resource to make sense of their embodied lives and augment their claims with strong data supporting actions for improving their health and environment.en
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Science Foundationen
dc.description.sponsorshipNSF: 1148586en
dc.description.sponsorshipInstitut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées (IMéRA)en
dc.description.sponsorshipAgence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail (ANSES)en
dc.description.sponsorshipFrench agency for food, environment and occupational health & safetyen
dc.description.sponsorshipPNREST Anses, Cancer ITMO AVIESAN, 2014/1/023en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/0162243918758380en
dc.identifier.orcidAllen, Barbara L. [0000-0001-8200-2066]en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/84308en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSageen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/en
dc.subjectexpertiseen
dc.subjectjusticeen
dc.subjectinequalityen
dc.subjectprotesten
dc.subjectengagementen
dc.subjectinterventionen
dc.subjectenvironmental justiceen
dc.subjectcitizen scienceen
dc.titleStrongly Participatory Science and Knowledge Justice in an Environmentally Contested Regionen
dc.title.serialScience, Technology, & Human Valuesen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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