Book
Refining expertise: how responsible engineers subvert environmental justice challenges
2013
Abstract
""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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Details
- Title
- Refining expertise
- Creators
- Gwen Ottinger - University of Washington Bothell
- Publisher
- New York University Press; New York
- Edition
- 1
- Number of pages
- 1 online resource (236 p.)
- Resource Type
- Book
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Politics
- Other Identifier
- 9780814762394; 0814762395; 9780814762615; 0814762611; 9780814762370; 0814762379; 9780814762394; 0814762395; 9780814762615; 0814762611; 991021863487204721