Refining expertise : how responsible engineers subvert environmental justice challenges / Gwen Ottinger.

By:

Ottinger, Gwen

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780814762394
0814762395
9780814762615
0814762611

Other title:

How responsible engineers subvert environmental justice challenges

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Refining expertise.DDC classification:

363.738/4 23

LOC classification:

TD195.P4 O88 2013eb

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Contents:

The battlefront -- Dangerous stories -- Noisome neighbors -- From deliberation to dialogue -- Responsible refiners -- Passive revolution and resistance.

Summary: ""An intriguing and impressive account of corporate social responsibility-and neoliberalism writ large-on the ground, in action, in chemical plant communities in Louisiana ... Ottinger effectively [illustrates] how, in complex, culturally saturated ways, corporate commitment to `responsible care' has created critical challenges for environmental activism and justice.""--Kim Fortun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Residents of a small Louisiana town were sure that the oil refinery next door was making them sick. As part of a campaign demanding relocation away from the refinery, they collected sc

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-217) and index.

The battlefront -- Dangerous stories -- Noisome neighbors -- From deliberation to dialogue -- Responsible refiners -- Passive revolution and resistance.

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""An intriguing and impressive account of corporate social responsibility-and neoliberalism writ large-on the ground, in action, in chemical plant communities in Louisiana ... Ottinger effectively [illustrates] how, in complex, culturally saturated ways, corporate commitment to `responsible care' has created critical challenges for environmental activism and justice.""--Kim Fortun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Residents of a small Louisiana town were sure that the oil refinery next door was making them sick. As part of a campaign demanding relocation away from the refinery, they collected sc

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