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The Contentious Politics of Expertise: Experts, Activism and Grassroots Environmentalism book cover

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The Contentious Politics of Expertise Experts, Activism and Grassroots Environmentalism

By Riccardo Emilio Chesta Copyright 2021
242 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Based on mixed-methods research and ethnographic fieldwork at various sites in Italy, this book examines the relationship between expertise and activism in grassroots environmentalism. Presenting interviews with citizens, activists and experts, it considers activism surrounding infrastructure in urban areas, in connection with water management, transport, tour- ism and waste disposal. Through... Read more

Introduction: speaking truth to society? The contentious politics of expertise

1. Grassroots expertise and local environmental mobilizations

2. The Venetian lagoon between prophecies and interests: expertise and civil society mobilizations against the MOSE project

3. Experts and activists in the "Florentine Node": citizens expertise in the conflict over the Tunnel–TAV in Florence

4. Experts, citizens and activists in the "No Cruise ships" movement in Venice

5. Expertise and activism in the "Stalingrad of incinerators": the mobilization against the waste incinerator in Florence

6. Conclusions: the contentious politics by other means – grassroots environmentalism and the politics of expertise

Methodological appendix: notes on contentious fieldwork

Appendix: intensive fieldwork and source list

Biography

Riccardo Emilio Chesta is Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Italy.

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