Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POC3095: Environmental Knowledge Controversies

This module descriptor refers to the 2024/5 academic year.

Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Basic reading:

Collins, F. and R. Evans (2007) Rethinking Expertise, University of Chicago Press.

David, M. (2005) Science in Society, Palgrave Macmillan.

Fischer, F. (2000) Citizens, Experts and the Environment: The Politics of Local Knowledge, Duke University Press. Hannigan, J. (1995) Environmental Sociology: A Social Constructionist Perspective, Routledge

Jasonoff, S. Ad Kim, S (eds) (2015) Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power, University of Chicago.

Lash, S., B. Szerszynski and B. Wynne (eds) Risk, Environment and Modernity: Towards a New Ecology, London: Sage. Pettenger, M. (ed) (2013) The Social Construction of Climate Change, Routledge

Schacker, M. (2008) A Spring Without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply, The Lyons Press.