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  title info:
    title: Refining expertise
    sub title: how responsible engineers subvert environmental justice challenges
  title info:
    title: How responsible engineers subvert environmental justice challenges
  name:
    name part: Ottinger, Gwen.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xi, 223 pages)
  abstract: Residents of a small Louisiana town were sure that the oil refinery next door was making them sick. As part of a campaign demanding relocation away from the refinery, they collected scientific data to prove it. Their campaign ended with a settlement agreement that addressed many of their grievances - but not concerns about their health. Yet, instead of continuing to collect data, residents began to let refinery scientists' assertions that their operations did not harm them stand without challenge. What makes a community move so suddenly from actively challenging to apparently accepting experts' authority? This book argues that the answer lies in the way that refinery scientists and engineers defined themselves as experts. Rather than claiming to be infallible, they began to portray themselves as responsible - committed to operating safely and to contributing to the well-being of the community. The volume shows that by grounding their claims to responsibility in influential ideas from the larger culture about what makes good citizens, nice communities, and moral companies, refinery scientists made it much harder for residents to challenge their expertise and thus re-established their authority over scientific questions related to the refinery's health and environmental effects. This book drives home the need for both activists and politically engaged scholars to reconfigure their own activities in response, in order to advance community health and robust scientific knowledge about it.
  table of contents: The battlefront -- Dangerous stories -- Noisome neighbors -- From deliberation to dialogue -- Responsible refiners -- Passive revolution and resistance.
  note: Gwen Ottinger.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-217) and index.
  note: English.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Petroleum refineries
    topic: Environmental aspects
    geographic: Louisiana
    geographic: New Sarpy
  subject:
    topic: Environmental responsibility
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Social responsibility of business
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Petroleum industry and trade
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Entreprises
    topic: Responsabilité sociale
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Responsabilité environnementale
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Anthropology
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Environmental responsibility
  subject:
    topic: Petroleum industry and trade
  subject:
    topic: Petroleum refineries
    topic: Environmental aspects
  subject:
    topic: Social responsibility of business
  subject:
    geographic: Louisiana
    geographic: New Sarpy
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: TD195.P4 O88 2013eb
  classification: 363.738/4
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    title info:
      title: Refining expertise
    name:
      name part: Ottinger, Gwen.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : New York University Press, [2012]
    identifier: (DLC) 2012036852
    identifier: (OCoLC)794040390
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    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 130219
    record change date: 20240419184814.4
    record identifier: in00004787378
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng