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Climate Technology, Gender, and Justice

The Standpoint of the Vulnerable

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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The overarching argument in this book contends that, while mitigation strategies like solar and wind energy go much further to meet feminist objectives and virtues, geoengineering is not consistent with the values of justice as articulated in Longino's feminist approach to science.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-01-18
Mått155 x 235 x 10 mm
Vikt260 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSpringerBriefs in Sociology
Antal sidor155
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030011468

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Dr. Tina Sikka is currently a Lecturer in Media and Culture at Newcastle University, UK. Dr. Sikka received her MA in Mass Communication from Carleton University in 2004 and her PhD. in Communication and Culture from York University in 2008. In 2012, she completed a 2-year SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University. In this position, Dr. Sikka worked on an interdisciplinary project applying feminist, critical STS, social justice and risk communication approaches to the study of climate change and climate engineering technologies. She has published extensively on the importance of democratizing technological design as it relates to sustainable energy and climate mitigating technologies in such noted journals as Technology in Society, Communication Review and Critical Discourse Studies. Dr. Sikka has also published extensively on the subjects of Continental social and political philosophy, political discourse analysis, network neutrality and is currently working on several projects that examine science and politics of food.

Introduction.- Chapter One: Geoengineering, Wind Solar Energy, Traditional Environmental Approaches To Gender.- Chapter Two: Feminist Standpoint Theory And Feminist Contextual Empiricism.- Chapter Three: Empirical Adequacy.- Chapter Four: Novelty.- Chapter Five:Ontological Heterogeneity.- Chapter Six: Complexity or Mutuality of Interaction.- Chapter Seven: Applicability to Human Needs.- Conclusion.