We Are the Monitors Now’

Experiential Knowledge, Transcorporeality and Environmental Justice

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12282900
AutoresDayna Nadine Scott (0000-0003-3992-8642, York University, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume25
Fascículo3
Páginas261-287
Data de publicação2015-12-17
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial & Legal Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0964-6639 • E-ISSN: 1461-7390
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0964663915601166
OpenAlexW2339993195
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16
Referências citadas36

Residents of pollution hotspots often take on projects in ‘citizen science’, or popularepidemiology, in an effort to marshal the data that can prove their experience of the pollution to the relevant authorities. Sometimes these tactics, such as pollution logs or bucket brigades, take advantage of residents’ spatially ordered and finely honed experiential and sensory knowledge of the places they inhabit. But putting that knowledge into conversation with law requires them to mobilize a new, ‘foreign’ set of tools, primarily oriented to the observation, measurement and sampling of pollution according to conventional scientific standards. Here, I employ qualitative empirical methods in two case studies of communities ‘downwind’ of Canada’s contested tar sands region to demonstrate that the knowledge that is crucial to these citizen science strategies is not only local, situated and experiential in origin but also collectively generated and held. I draw on the notion of transcorporeality, emanating from feminist theory of the body, to demonstrate that the knowledge offered to law through these efforts often represents a fluid merger of experiential and conventional ways of knowing, posing a productive challenge to the strictly positive notions of science and evidence dominant in legal proceedings

Citizen science · Conversation · Epistemology · Experiential knowledge · Experiential learning · Political science · Public relations · Set (abstract data type · Situated · Sociology · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics