Those Who Get Hurt Aren't Always Being Heard

Scientist-Resident Interactions over Community Water

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5338028
AutoresWolff-Michael Roth (0000-0001-9344-496X, University of Victoria), Janet Riecken (University of Victoria), Lilian Pozzer-Ardenghi (University of Victoria), Lilian Pozzer‐Ardenghi (University of Victoria), Robin Mcmillan (University of Victoria), Brenda Storr (University of Victoria), Donna Tait (University of Victoria), Gail Bradshaw (University of Victoria), Trudy Pauluth Penner (University of Victoria)
Año2004
Volumen29
Número2
Páginas153-183
Fecha de publicación2004-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaScience Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0162243903261949
OpenAlexW2127506370
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas26

This study is about the interaction of scientific expertise and local knowledge in the context of a contested issue: the quality and quantity of safe drinking water available to some residents in one Canadian community. The authors articulate the boundary work in which scientific and technological expertise and discourse are played out against local knowledge and water needs to prevent the construction of a water main extension that would provide a group of residents with the same water that others in the community already access. The authors draw on an extensive database constructed during a three-year ethnographic study of one community; the data base includes the transcript of a public meeting, newspaper clippings, interviews, and communications between residents and town council. The authors show not only that scientists and residents differ in their assessment of water quality and quantity but also that there is a penchant for undercutting residents in their attempts to make themselves heard in the political process

Boundary-work · Ethnography · Geography · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law