Toxic truths

Environmental justice and citizen science in a post-truth age

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Thom Davies
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This book examines the relationship between environmental justice and citizen science, focusing on enduring issues and new challenges in a post-truth age. Debates over science, facts, and values have always been pivotal within environmental justice struggles. For decades, environmental justice activists have campaigned against the misuses of science, while at the same time engaging in community-led citizen science. However, post-truth politics has threatened science itself. This book makes the case for the importance of science, knowledge, and data that are produced by and for ordinary people living with environmental risks and hazards. The international, interdisciplinary contributions range from grassroots environmental justice struggles in American hog country and contaminated indigenous communities, to local environmental controversies in Spain and China, to questions about “knowledge justice,” citizenship, participation, and data in citizen science surrounding toxicity. The book features inspiring studies of community-based participatory environmental health and justice research; different ways of sensing, witnessing, and interpreting environmental injustice; political strategies for seeking environmental justice; and ways of expanding the concepts and forms of engagement of citizen science around the world. While the book will be of critical interest to specialists in social and environmental sciences, it will also be accessible to graduate and postgraduate audiences. More broadly, the book will appeal to members of the public interested in social justice issues, as well as community members who are thinking about participating in citizen science and activism. Toxic Truths includes distinguished contributing authors in the field of environmental justice, alongside cutting-edge research from emerging scholars and community activists.

Introduction
Introduction
Part I: Environmental justice and participatory citizen science
Chapter 1: Toxic trespass
Chapter 1: Toxic trespass
Chapter 3: Crude justice
Chapter 3: Crude justice
Chapter 4: Environmental injustice in North Carolina’s hog industry
Chapter 4: Environmental injustice in North Carolina’s hog industry
Part II: Sensing and witnessing injustice
Chapter 5: The auger
Chapter 5: The auger
Chapter 7: Making sense of visual pollution
Chapter 7: Making sense of visual pollution
Part III: Political strategies for seeking environmental justice
Chapter 8: Legitimating confrontational discourses by local environmental groups
Chapter 8: Legitimating confrontational discourses by local environmental groups
Chapter 9: Environmental justice in industrially contaminated sites
Chapter 9: Environmental justice in industrially contaminated sites
Chapter 10: Soft confrontation
Chapter 10: Soft confrontation
Part IV: Expanding citizen science
Chapter 11: Whose citizenship in “citizen science”?
Chapter 11: Whose citizenship in “citizen science”?
Chapter 12: Modes of engagement
Chapter 12: Modes of engagement
Chapter 13: Science, citizens, and air pollution
Chapter 13: Science, citizens, and air pollution
Chapter 14: Beyond the data treadmill
Chapter 14: Beyond the data treadmill
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