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Scoones, I
In J Gaventa & R Tandon (eds) Globalising Citizen Engagement. London: Zed.
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Scoones, I
Journal of Peasant studies, 36(3): 547-71.
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Scoones, I
Journal of Agrarian Change, 8(2-3): 315-44.
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Scoones, I
IDS Working Paper 313
The IAASTD ñ the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development ñ which r...
The IAASTD ñ the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development ñ which ran between 2003 and 2008, involving over 400 scientists worldwide, was an ambitious attempt to encourage local and global debate on the future of agricultural science and technology. Responding to critiques of top-down, northern-dominated expert assessments of the past, the IAASTD aimed to be more inclusive and participatory in both design and process. But how far did it meet these objectives? Did it genuinely allow alternative voices to be heard? Did it create a new mode of engagement in global arenas? And what were the power relations involved, creating what processes of inclusion and exclusion? These questions are probed in an examination of the IAASTD process over five years, involving a combination of interviews with key participants and review of available documents. The paper focuses in particular on two areas of controversy ñ the use of quantitative scenario modelling and the role of genetically-modified crops in developing country agriculture. These highlight some of the knowledge contests involved in the assessment and, in turn, illuminate four questions at the heart of contemporary democratic theory and practice: how do processes of knowledge framing occur; how do different practices and methodologies get deployed in cross-cultural, global processes; how is ërepresentationí constructed and legitimised; and how, as a result, do collective understandings of global issues emerge? The paper concludes that, in assessments of this sort, the politics of knowledge needs to be made more explicit, and negotiations around politics and values, framings and perspectives needs to be put centre-stage in assessment design.
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Leach, M & I, Scoones
IDS Working Paper 276
This paper reflects comparatively on a series of case studies of citizen mobilisation in both north and south, arguin...
This paper reflects comparatively on a series of case studies of citizen mobilisation in both north and south, arguing that the politics of knowldge are now central. The cases focus on issues ranging from genetically -modified crops, vaccines, HIV and AIDS and occupational health, to struggles around water, housing, labour rights and the environment. The paper offers a synthesis of some major theoretical perspectives, lines of argument and issues emerging from case studies responses to these querstions.
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Leach, M, Scoones, I & K, Cockburn
IDS Policy Briefing, Issue 30
A policy briefing based upon recent research by the Citizenship DRC looks at citizen participation in science and tec...
A policy briefing based upon recent research by the Citizenship DRC looks at citizen participation in science and technology debates. It examines current policy contexts, different perspectives on knowledge and expertise and looks at three case studies.
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Leach, M & I, Scoones
London: Demos
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Leach, M, Scoones, I & B, Wynne
In M Leach, I Scoones & B Wynne (eds) Science and Citizens: Globalization and the challenge of Engagement. London: Zed
Due to copyright restrictions, we can only share the first three pages of this chapter online. The book can be ordere...
Due to copyright restrictions, we can only share the first three pages of this chapter online. The book can be ordered from Zed Books at www.zedbooks.co.uk/citizenship or purchased at the IDS bookstore.
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Leach, M & I, Scoones
In M Leach, I Scoones & B Wynne (eds) Science and Citizens: Globalization and the Challenge of Engagement. London: Zed.
Due to copyright restrictions, we can only share the first three pages of this chapter online. The book can be ordere...
Due to copyright restrictions, we can only share the first three pages of this chapter online. The book can be ordered from Zed Books at www.zedbooks.co.uk/citizenship or purchased at the IDS bookstore.
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Leach, M, Scoones, I & B, Wynne
In M Leach, I Scoones & B Wynne (eds) Science and Citizens: Globalization and the Challenge of Engagement. London: Zed
Due to copyright restrictions, we can only share the first three pages of this chapter online. The book can be ordere...
Due to copyright restrictions, we can only share the first three pages of this chapter online. The book can be ordered from Zed Books at www.zedbooks.co.uk/citizenship or purchased at the IDS bookstore.
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Leach, M, Scoones, I & B, Wynne
In M Leach, I Scoones & B Wynne (eds) Science and Citizens: Globalization and the challenge of Engagement. London: Zed
Due to copyright restrictions, we can only share the first three pages of this chapter online. The book can be ordere...
Due to copyright restrictions, we can only share the first three pages of this chapter online. The book can be ordered from Zed Books at www.zedbooks.co.uk/citizenship or purchased at the IDS bookstore.
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Leach, M, Scoones, I & B, Wynne
In M Leach, I Scoones & B Wynne (eds) Science and Citizens: Globalization and the challenge of Engagement. London: Zed
Due to copyright restrictions, we can only share the first three pages of this chapter online. The book can be ordere...
Due to copyright restrictions, we can only share the first three pages of this chapter online. The book can be ordered from Zed Books at www.zedbooks.co.uk/citizenship or purchased at the IDS bookstore.
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Leach, M, Scoones, I & B, Wynne
In M Leach, I Scoones & B Wynne (eds) Science and Citizens: Globalization and the Challenge of Engagement. London: Zed
Due to copyright restrictions, we can only share the first three pages of this chapter online. The book can be ordere...
Due to copyright restrictions, we can only share the first three pages of this chapter online. The book can be ordered from Zed Books at www.zedbooks.co.uk/citizenship or purchased at the IDS bookstore.
This section presents a series of cases that draw on and extend the themes raised in the last section. They illustrate interactions between publics and science in a variety of settings, raising questions about forms of knowledge, epistemology and expertise. These cases show public engagements with science to be bound up with material struggles for health and livelihoods, and social solidarities that emerge to address these, whether among patient groups in the UK, labour unions in India or HIV/AIDS activists in South Africa. The cases consider how contemporary configurations of the state, civil society, the private sector and international organizations, as well as emergent coalitions and alliances that cross-cut these categories and distinctions, shape the possibilities of different types of citizen engagement.
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Scoones, I
IDS Working Paper 256
Debates about science and technology are central to the future of development. No recent controversy has highlighted ...
Debates about science and technology are central to the future of development. No recent controversy has highlighted this as much as the debates about genetically-modified (GM) crops. Looking at the experiences of anti-GM activism in India, South Africa and Brazil, this paper explores how knowledge and politics are intertwined in mobilisation processes. These interactions are fundamentally shaped by different local and national contexts of history, politics and economics, but also influenced by global connections. Through a documentation of the unfolding of the anti-GM campaigns in the three sites over the past decade, the paper shows how strategic alliances have been formed – across actors and across debates – which have allowed concerns about GM crops to be inserted into public policy debates. The strategies and tactics used by anti-GM activist networks are explored across seven ‘spaces’ for citizen engagement: formal, invited spaces; informal networking and lobbying; party political and electoral processes; the legal process and the courts; research, practice and demonstration sites; protest and direct action; and the media. The case studies highlight the constraints and limitations of activist mobilisation, and how alternative knowledge framings and perspectives on science, technology and policy are often silenced. The paper concludes with a discussion of the ways forward, focusing on the need to bring consideration of wider politics and values into deliberations about future science and technology options, with a move beyond standard mechanisms and processes for deliberation and negotiation about science and technology policy.
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Leach, M & I, Scoones
IDS Working Paper 205
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Leach, M & I, Scoones
IDS Policy Briefing, Issue 30
Science and technology are key to tackling poverty and promoting better well-being in the modern world, as the Millen...
Science and technology are key to tackling poverty and promoting better well-being in the modern world, as the Millennium Development Goals and the Commission for Africa’s findings underline. But how can scientific and technological advances – often played out on a global or corporate stage – translate into innovations that will meet poor people’s needs and concerns at a local level? How do rapid scientific advances and new technologies engage with issues of participation and accountability? And in what ways do these rapid changes challenge notions of citizenship and identity? Based on work undertaken by the Science and Citizens programme of the Citizenship, Participation and Accountability Development Research Centre, this IDS Policy Briefing argues that public engagement in scientific debates and policy processes is necessary to address how research agendas are framed and the social purposes they serve, and to ensure that poorer people and communities will benefit from them.
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Leach, M, Scoones, I & L, Thompson
IDS Bulletin 33(2)
Shifting relationships between science and society, and responses to science-related risk and uncertainty, are centra...
Shifting relationships between science and society, and responses to science-related risk and uncertainty, are central to practices of citizenship and their expression and to questions around the subject of participation. This article reports on the preliminary phase and inception workshop of a Development Research Centre (DRC) project to explore the dynamics of citizenship, science and risk across a range of issues and settings. It reflects on the potential for cross-learning between analytical traditions that have focused respectively on northern and southern settings, and on questions of participation in scientific and technological processes, and the notions of citizenship that they imply. It then considers how the internationalisation of science and governance are shaping both the generation and regulation of technology and risks, and patterns of engagement between citizens and experts. It outlines a notion of knowledge rights in scientific decision-making which could in turn help create and consolidate other forms of citizenship rights.
