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ScientiStS, expertS, and civic engagement How do scientists, scholars, and other experts engage with the general public and with the communities affected by their work or residing in their sites of study? Where are the fine lines between public scholarship, civic engagement, and activism? Must academics “give back” once they collect data and publish results? In this volume, authors from a wide range of disciplines examine these relationships to assess how they can be fruitful or challenging. describing the methodological and ethical issues that experts must consider when carrying out public scholarship, this book includes a checklist for critical factors of success in engagement and an examination of the role of digital social media in science communication. Illustrated by a range of case studies addressing environmental issues (climate change, resource use, post-disaster policy) and education, it offers an investigation into the levels and ways in which scholars can engage, and how and whether academics and experts who engage in community work and public scholarship are acknowledged and rewarded for doing so by their institutions. Also bringing into the debate the perspective of citizens who have collaborated with academics, the book offers an exploration of the democratizing potential of participatory action research. Ashgate Studies in Environmental policy and practice Series Editor: Adrian McDonald, University of Leeds, UK Based on the Avebury Studies in Green Research series, this wide-ranging series still covers all aspects of research into environmental change and development. It will now focus primarily on environmental policy, management and implications (such as effects on agriculture, lifestyle, health etc.), and includes both innovative theoretical research and international practical case studies. Also in the series communities in transition: protected nature and Local People in Eastern and Central Europe Saska Petrova iSBn 978 1 4094 4850 1 Sustainability and Short-term policies Improving Governance in Spatial Policy Interventions Edited by Stefan Sjöblom, Kjell Andersson, Terry Marsden and Sarah Skerratt iSBn 978 1 4094 4677 4 Energy Access, Poverty, and Development The Governance of Small-Scale Renewable Energy in Developing Asia Benjamin K. Sovacool and Ira Martina Drupady iSBn 978 1 4094 4113 7 tropical Wetland management the South-american pantanal and the international experience Edited by Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris iSBn 978 1 4094 1878 8 rethinking climate change research clean technology, culture and communication Edited by Pernille Almlund, Per Homann Jespersen and Søren Riis iSBn 978 1 4094 2866 4 a new agenda for Sustainability Edited by Kurt Aagaard Nielsen, Bo Elling, Maria Figueroa and Erling Jelsøe iSBn 978 0 7546 7976 9 Scientists, experts, and Civic Engagement Walking a Fine Line AMy E. LESEn Tulane University, New Orleans, USA For my mother, Ruth Weiser Lesen, 1940–1986, my father, Edward J. Lesen, and my stepmother, Clarice B. Pollock, who taught me the importance of doing work that improves the lives of my fellow citizens © Amy E. Lesen 2015 All rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Amy E. Lesen has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editor of this work. published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Ashgate Publishing Company Wey court east 110 cherry Street Union road Suite 3–1 Farnham Burlington, vt 05401–3818 Surrey, gU9 7pt USa england www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for Scientists, experts, and civic engagement : walking a fine line / edited by Amy E. Lesen. pages cm. – (Ashgate studies in environmental policy and practice) includes bibliographical references and index. iSBn 978–1–4724–1524–0 (hardback : alk. paper) – iSBn 978–1–4724–1525–7 (ebook) – iSBn 978–1–4724–1526–4 (epub) 1. Community and college—United States. 2. Learning and scholarship—Social aspects—United States. 3. communication in learning and scholarship—Social aspects—United States. 4. education, Higher—Social aspects—United States. 5. Universities and colleges—United States—Public services. I. Lesen, Amy E. LC238.S45 2014 378.1’03—dc23 2014021466 iSBn 9781472415240 (hbk) iSBn 9781472415257 (ebk – epdF) iSBn 9781472415264 (ebk – epUB) V Printed in the United Kingdom by Henry Ling Limited, at the dorset press, dorchester, dt1 1Hd This page has been left blank intentionally Contents List of Tables ix Notes on Contributors xi Preface by Amy E. Lesen xv Acknowledgments xxiii Part I: CIvICally EngagEd aCadEmICIans: thEorIEs, ChallEngEs, and oPPortunItIEs 1 1 “When You Leave Town, I’ll Leave Town”: Insights from a Civically Engaged Researcher in Postdiluvian New Orleans 3 Richard Campanella 2 Beyond Pasteur’s Quadrant: Science and the Liberal Arts in a Democracy 13 Amy Koritz 3 Somewhere Between the Ideal and the Real, the Civic Engagement “Expert” Learns and Lets Go 27 Margaret Molly Olsen 4 Community Enrollment: Colleges and the Fault Lines Between Academic and Civic Engagement 43 Stephen Tremaine Part II: how wE EngagE: modEs of PartICIPatIon, from dIgItal soCIal mEdIa to radICal dEmoCraCy 55 5 Effective Engagement: Critical Factors of Success 57 Janice Cumberbatch 6 Participatory Action-Citizen Engagement: When Knowledge Comes from the Academy and the Community 83 Kristina J. Peterson viii Scientists, Experts, and Civic Engagement 7 “We Can’t Give Up”: A Conversation About Community Engagement 101 Albert P. Naquin, Amy E. Lesen, and Kristina J. Peterson 8 A New Paradigm For Science Communication? Social Media, Twitter, Science, and Public Engagement: A Literature Review 111 Amy E. Lesen Index 137 List of Tables 5.1 Survey respondents’ areas of work 59 5.2 Checklist for defining participation 61 5.3 Checklist for potential participants 65 5.4 Respondents’ view on the characteristics of potential participants 67 5.5 Checklist on the implementers 69 5.6 Respondents’ views on the characteristics of the implementers 70 5.7 Checklist on the funders 72 5.8 Checklist on the type of project 72 5.9 Checklist on the social context 75 5.10 Checklist on the resources 76 5.11 Value underlying successful participatory efforts 78
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