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Cassidy, R & M, Leach
In J Gaventa & R Tandon (eds) Globalizing Citizens: New Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion. London: Zed
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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 & A, Cornwall
Citizenship DRC Synthesis Paper
Recent debates about citizen involvement in health have given new political currency to the promise of the Alma Ata D...
Recent debates about citizen involvement in health have given new political currency to the promise of the Alma Ata Declaration of 1978, and its emphasis on the role people can play in the design and delivery of primary health care services. This article reflects on some of the emphases and silences in these debates. It draws on a series of case studies of citizen engagement from Bangladesh, Brazil, South Africa and the UK, bringing together work on institutionalised participation and mobilization. To understand how public and citizen involvement shapes health services, this article suggests, closer attention needs to be paid to issues of representation, framing and the politics of identity and knowledge. By exploring the synergies between mobilization and invited participation, the article explores what insights might be gained into the ways people negotiate health citizenship and influence the institutions and decisions that affect such a fundamental dimension of their lives.
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Cassidy, R & M, Leach
IDS Working Paper 325
Making sense of an HIV-positive diagnosis is often a struggle. Across Africa this is mediated by a new globalism in p...
Making sense of an HIV-positive diagnosis is often a struggle. Across Africa this is mediated by a new globalism in public health; the last decade has seen an array of new international initiatives and funding mechanisms. These dimensions of governance exemplify, in the health sector, an intensified move away from forms of authority based on the pre-eminence of nation states in global arenas, towards an array of new arrangements including global public-private-philanthropic partnerships. This Gambian case study unpicks the picture of an emergent ‘therapeutic citizenship’ (Nguyen 2005) in this context – of condom demonstrations and public disclosures – looking to the strands of authority and governance linked to an epistemic structure initiated by the Global Fund, but that works through a complex web of other organisations and agencies. This suggests that in Gambia in the period up to the end of 2006, the focus of this paper, a localglobal axis which constructed HIV related problems, solutions and related notions of identity and political affiliation had come into being. For people living with HIV in the Gambia, making claims based on their status in this field has been problematic, and their ability to shape proactively what goes on and assert their felt needs often rather limited.
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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
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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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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
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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
IDS Working Paper 247
This paper examines the controversy over measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine in Britain through the lenses of so...
This paper examines the controversy over measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine in Britain through the lenses of social movement theory and social studies of science. Since the early 1990s, networks of parents have raised, and mobilised around, concerns that MMR has triggered a particular disease in their children linked to autism and bowel problems, and have been supported in this by certain scientists. In the high-profile and highly-public debate which has ensued, they have challenged established perspectives and institutions in both biomedical science, and public health policy. While much policy and public debate has dismissed their concerns as based on emotion, misinformation or “junk science”, this paper locates them
as part of a citizen science grounded in parental experience. It tracks how the framing and strategies of parental mobilisation around MMR have developed, in relation to a growing counter-mobilisation from scientists, policy-makers, health professionals and journalists questioning their claims. It argues that the controversy involves differently-framed sciences (clinical vs epidemiological) linked to different political commitments (parents’ personal concerns and rights as citizen-consumers vs notions of public health).
Each side has nevertheless used similar strategies in deploying science, in exposing the political economy of the other’s science, and in working through the media. Both these differences of framing, and similarities of strategy, are important to comprehending why the debate has become so heated and polarised, and why it has failed to reach closure.
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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
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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
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 & I, Scoones
IDS Working Paper 205
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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.
