Science With a Team of Thousands: The British Trust for Ornithology

Greenwood, Jeremy J. D.

doi:10.1057/9780230523043_11

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“…Citizen science has two quite diff erent meanings. For natural scientists, citizen science describes the practice of enlisting large numbers of unpaid volunteers (typically white and well-educated) to collect data, most oft en for large-scale ecological or astronomical studies (Cohn 2008;Dickinson et al 2010;Ellis and Waterton 2004;Greenwood 2005). By contrast, STS scholars use citizen science to denote practices of activist or counterscience centered in low-income communities, oft en of color, such as popular epidemiology, participatory mapping, and the knowledge production practices of the environmental justice movement more broadly (B. Allen 2003;Brown and Mikkelsen 1990;Corburn 2005;Craig et al 2002;Elwood 2008a;Ottinger 2010).…”

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Neoliberalism and the Production of Environmental Knowledge

Lave¹

2012

Environment and Society

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In order for nature/society scholars to understand the dynamics of environmental appropriation, commercialization, and privatization, we must attend to the production of the environmental science that enables them. Case studies from anthropology, geography, history of science, science and technology studies, and sociology demonstrate that the neoliberal forces whose application we study and contest are also changing the production of environmental knowledge claims both inside and outside the university. Neoliberalism's core epistemological claim about the market's superiority as information processor has made restructuring the university a surprisingly central project. Further, because knowledge has become a key site of capital accumulation, the transformative reach of neoliberal science regimes extends outside the university into the various forms of extramural science, such as citizen science, crowdsourcing, indigenous knowledge, and local knowledge. Neoliberal science regimes' impacts on these forms of extramural science are strikingly similar, and quite diff erent from the most common consequences within academia.

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