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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Nunes, João Arriscado
• Matias, Marisa

Titel

Controvérsia científica e conflitos ambientais em Portugal: O caso da co‑incineração de resíduos industriais perigosos

Ist Teil von

• Revista crítica de ciencias sociais, 2003-05, Vol.65 (65), p.129-150

Ort / Verlag

Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra

Erscheinungsjahr

2003

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Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The scientific controversy around the treatment and disposal of dangerous industrial waste in Portugal is an exemplary case of the problematic relations between science and society and between technology and democracy. In this article, the authors provide a “thick description” of the conflict around co-incineration in Souselas and an analysis of the modes of definition of the agonistic spaces in which the participants in this conflict confront one another. They also seek to analyze the emergence, on both sides, of collective actors whose identity was a result of the confrontation itself and the alignments that it gave rise to. They point to the characteristics of a process which, because of its intensity, the range of actors involved, and the repertory of forms of political intervention and collective action, appears as an especially interesting manifestation of the modes of articulation of scientific controversy and political conflict in the area of the environment.