Beyond risk: Emplacement and the production of environmental evidence

dc.contributor.author	Reno, Joshua
dc.date.accessioned	2012-09-17T21:02:29Z
dc.date.available	2012-09-17T21:02:29Z
dc.date.issued	2011-08
dc.identifier.citation	Reno, Joshua. 2011. Beyond risk: Emplacement and the production of environmental evidence. American Ethnologist 38(3): 516–530	en_US
dc.identifier.other	DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2011.01320.x
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1951/57479
dc.description.abstract	I offer a counterpoint to the prevailing risk literature that focuses not on (mis)perceptions of danger but on the production and circulation of different forms of evidence and the environmental claims they promote. Rather than reproduce the epistemic dichotomies associated with risk discourse, I discuss attempts by waste-industry technicians, government inspectors, lawyers, area residents, and activists to generate persuasive accounts of a large, U.S. landfill and its porous boundaries. I argue that the differential influence of their various claims is best understood by examining what it means to know and care for a place.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	The research for this article was made possi- ble through the generous support of the Center for the Ethnogra- phy of Everyday Life (CEEL) and the Sloan Foundation. The writ- ing of this article would not have been possible were it not for the additional support of the Waste of the World Programme and the Economic and Social Research Council (RES 000–23-0007).	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	American Ethnologist	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Reno;4
dc.subject	risk	en_US
dc.subject	evidence	en_US
dc.subject	place	en_US
dc.subject	science and technology	en_US
dc.subject	epistemology	en_US
dc.subject	waste	en_US
dc.title	Beyond risk: Emplacement and the production of environmental evidence	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US