Who Speaks for Nature? – On the Politics of Science Ephraim Hardback

Who Speaks for Nature?On the Politics of Science\nAuthor(s): Laura Ephraim\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9780812249811, 978-0812249811\nSynopsis\nWhen natural scientists speak up in public about the material phenomena they have observed, measured, and analyzed in the lab or the field, they embody a distinctive version of political authority. Where does science derive its remarkably resilient, though often contested, capacity to give voice to nature? What efforts on the part of scientists and nonscientists alike determine who is regarded as a legitimate witness to material reality and whose speech is discounted as idle chatter, mere opinion, or noise?\n In Who Speaks for Nature?, Laura Ephraim reveals the roots of scientific authority in what she calls \""world-building politics\"": the collection of practices through which scientists and citizens collaborate with and struggle against ea.