Science in Movements: Knowledge Control and Social Contestation in China's Hydro

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This book analyses and compares the origins, evolutionary patterns and consequences of different science and technology controversies in China, including hydropower resistance, disputes surrounding genetically modified organisms, and the nuclear power debate.

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This book analyses and compares the origins, evolutionary patterns and consequences of different science and technology controversies in China, including hydropower resistance, disputes surrounding genetically modified organisms and the nuclear power debate.The examination combines social movement theories, communication studies, and science and technology studies. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the book provides an insight into the interwoven relationship between social and political controls and knowledge monopoly, and looks into a central issue neglected by previous science communication studies: why have different controversies shown divergent patterns despite similar social and political contexts? It is revealed that the media environment, political opportunity structures, knowledge-control regimes and activists' strategies have jointly triggered, nurtured and sustained these controversies and led to the development of different patterns. Based on these observations, the author also discusses the significance of science communication studies in promoting China's social transformation and further explores the feasible approach to a more generic framework to understand science controversies across the world.The book will be of value to the academics of science communication, science and technology studies, political science studies and sociology, as well as general readers interested in China's science controversies and social movements.The Open Access version of this book, available at , has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author Biography

Hepeng Jia is a professor of communication at Soochow University, Suzhou, China. He has worked as a leading science journalist for 20 years and is also a pioneering researcher in the field of science journalism and communication in China.

Table of Contents

1. Science Controversies Encounter Political Opportunities 2. Research Method and Data 3. Science Controversies in Transitional China 4. Hydropower, Fragmentation and Knowledge-Making 5. GMO Controversy: How Orthodox Science Lost Control 6. The Nuclear Power Debate in a Narrow Political Opportunity Structure 7. Why are Science Controversies So Different? 8. Synergy of Different Theoretical Traditions in a Comparative Lens 9. Conclusion

Details ISBN0367765292 Author Hepeng Jia Pages 236 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Year 2023 ISBN-10 0367765292 ISBN-13 9780367765293 Publication Date 2023-01-09 UK Release Date 2023-01-09 Format Paperback Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations 21 Tables, black and white; 20 Line drawings, black and white; 20 Illustrations, black and white AU Release Date 2023-01-09 NZ Release Date 2023-01-09 Series Chinese Perspectives on Journalism and Communication Subtitle Knowledge Control and Social Contestation in China's Hydropower, GMO and Nuclear Controversies Alternative 9780367749095 DEWEY 306.4509510905 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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