Descrizione del progetto
Sotto i riflettori: interazioni tra gruppi di scienziati cittadini di natura spontanea e istituzioni ufficiali
La scienza dei cittadini guidata dai dati di natura spontanea può aiutare a far luce sui cambiamenti nella governance delle questioni globali. Il gruppo GRACE, finanziato dall’UE, studierà il modo in cui i cittadini scienziati di natura spontanea in Asia orientale, Europa occidentale e Africa centrale utilizzano nuovi dispositivi e tecnologie basati sui dati per resistere alle minacce ambientali, nonché il modo in cui le istituzioni ufficiali rispondono alle pratiche ambientali basate sui dati guidate dai cittadini. Accogliendo le preoccupazioni delle parti interessate, il progetto cercherà ulteriormente di affrontare le sfide e le insidie che emergeranno da questi processi, in modo da poter sviluppare approcci di governance dei dati ambientali reciprocamente sensibili.
Obiettivo
This research project uses data-led grassroots citizen science as a lens through which to consider actual and pending shifts in the governance of pressing global issues. Combining methods in Science and Technology Studies and Policy Analysis, it discerns how grassroots citizen scientists in three world regions (East Asia, Western Europe, Central Africa) mobilize new data devices and technologies to tackle environmental threats emanating from public concerns over environmental radiation, air pollution, and climate change. Recognizing that these complex, interdependent problems require a multi-stakeholder approach, it analyzes and compares how grassroots citizen data practices are received by local and global rules-based democratic and market institutions, including public authorities, research communities, businesses, mass media, and educational organizations. With concerned stakeholders, it addresses the tensions and pitfalls that emerge in these processes, as citizens create and value environmental data distinct from official institutional approaches. Its findings serve to incite collective learning about these tensions with the aim of facilitating mutually responsive environmental data governance. The project builds on the fellow’s research on citizen science in post-Fukushima Japan and his expertise in public engagement with new and emerging technologies. It will be carried out in close collaboration with Professor of Sociology Jennifer Gabrys (University of Cambridge), who is a leading expert in environmental sociology, digital technologies, and citizen participation.
Campo scientifico
- social sciencessociologygovernance
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringair pollution engineering
- social sciencessociologyanthropologyscience and technology studies
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil society
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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Meccanismo di finanziamento
MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinatore
CB2 1TN Cambridge
Regno Unito