The Contentious Politics of Expertise: Experts, Activism and Grassroots Environmentalism

ISBN-13: 9780367470968 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 230 str.

Riccardo Emilio Chesta

Opis

Bridging the sociology of expertise and contentious politics, this book draws on mixed-methods research and ethnographic fieldwork at various sites in Italy to examine the relationship between expertise and activism in grassroots environmentalism, analysing the ways in which various actors participate in using expertise.

Spis treści

Introduction: speaking truth to society? The contentious politics of expertise 1. Grassroots expertise and local environmental mobilizations 2. The Venetian lagoon between prophecies and interests: expertise and civil society mobilizations against the MOSE project 3. Experts and activists in the "Florentine Node": citizens expertise in the conflict over the Tunnel–TAV in Florence 4. Experts, citizens and activists in the "No Cruise ships" movement in Venice 5. Expertise and activism in the "Stalingrad of incinerators": the mobilization against the waste incinerator in Florence 6. Conclusions: the contentious politics by other means – grassroots environmentalism and the politics of expertise Methodological appendix: notes on contentious fieldwork Appendix: intensive fieldwork and source list

O autorze

Riccardo Emilio Chesta is Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Italy.