Science And Citizens: Globalization And The Challenge Of Engagement (claiming Citizenship: Rights, Participation And Accountability)

Claiming citizenship: rights, participation and accountability series editor: john gaventa Around the world, a growing crisis of legitimacy characterizes the relationship between citizens and the institutions that affect their lives. In both North and South, citizens speak of mounting disillusionment with government, based on concerns about corruption, lack of responsiveness to the needs of the poor and the absence of a sense of connection with elected representatives and bureaucrats. Conventional forms of expertise and representation are being questioned. The rights and responsibilities of corporations and other global actors are being challenged, as global inequalities persist and deepen. In response, this series argues, increased attention must be paid to re-examining contemporary understandings of rights and citizenship in different contexts, and their implications for related issues of participation and accountability. Challenging liberal understandings in which citizenship is understood as a set of rights and responsibilities bestowed by the state, the series looks at how citizenship is claimed and rights are realized through the agency and actions of people themselves. Growing out of the work of an international network of researchers and practitioners from both South and North, the volumes in this series explore a variety of themes, including locally rooted struggles for more inclusive forms of citizenship, the links between citizenship, science and globalization, the politics and dynamics of participation in new democratic arenas, and the relationships between claiming rights and ensuring accountability. Drawing from concrete case studies which focus on how people understand their citizenship and claim their rights, the volumes contribute new, empirically grounded perspectives to current debates related to deepening democracy, realizing rights-based development, and making institutions more responsive to the needs and voices of poor people. Series titles Volume I: Inclusive Citizenship: Meanings and Expressions, edited by Naila Kabeer Volume 2: Science and Citizens: Globalization and the Challenge of Engagement, edited by Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones and Brian Wynne Volume 3: Spaces for Change? The Politics of Citizen Participation in New Democratic Arenas, edited by Andrea Cornwall and Vera Schatten Coelho Volume 4: Rights and Resources: The Politics of Accountability, edited by Peter Newell and Joanna Wheeler Volume 5: Claiming Citizenship: Rethinking Democratic Participation, by John Gaventa melissa leach, ian scoones and brian wynne | editors Science and citizens Globalization and the challenge of engagement Z Zed Books london | new york Science and citizens: globalization and the challenge of engagement was first published by Zed Books Ltd, 7 Cynthia Street, London n1 9jf, uk and Room 400, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, ny 10010, usa in 2005. www.zedbooks.co.uk Editorial copyright © Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones and Brian Wynne, 2005 Individual chapters © individual contributors, 2005 The rights of the editor and contributors to be identified as the authors of this work have been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988. Cover desi