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100 1 _aJia, Hepeng,
245 1 0 _aScience in movements :
_bknowledge control and social contestation in China's hydropower, GMO and nuclear controversies /
_cHepeng Jia.
264 1 _aLondon ;
_aNew York :
_bRoutledge/Taylor & Francis Group,
_c2022.
300 _axiv, 236 pages ;
_bill;
490 0 _aChinese perspectives on journalism and communication,
500 _aRevision of author's dissertation (doctoral)--Cornell University, 2019, titled When science controversies encounter political opportunities : comparing GMO, hydropower and nuclear power contentions in contemporary China.
505 0 _aScience controversies encounter political opportunities -- Research method and data -- Science controversies in transitional China -- Hydropower, fragmentation, and knowledge making -- GMO controversy : how orthodox science lost control -- Nuclear power debate in a narrow political opportunity structure -- Why are science controversies so different -- Synergy of different theoretical traditions in a comparative lens.
520 _a"This book analyses and compares the origins, evolutionary patterns and consequences of different science and technology controversies in China, including hydropower resistance, disputes surrounding genetically modified organisms, and the nuclear power debate. The examination combines social movement theories, communication studies and science and technology studies. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the book provides an insight into the interwoven relationship between social and political controls and knowledge monopoly and looks into a central issue neglected by previous science communication studies: why have different controversies shown divergent patterns despite similar social and political contexts? It is revealed that the media environment, political opportunity structures, knowledge-control regimes, and activists' strategies have jointly triggered, nurtured, and sustained these controversies and led to the development of different patterns. Based on these observations, the author also discusses the significance of science communication studies in promoting China's social transformation and further explores the feasible approach to a more generic framework to understand science controversies across the world. The book will be of value to the academics of science communication, science and technology studies, political science studies and sociology, as well as general readers interested in China's science controversies and social movements"--
650 0 _aCommunication in science
650 0 _aScience and state
650 0 _aScience
650 0 _aSocial movements
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