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Session Submission Type: Invited Session
In contemporary society political conflict increasingly centers on claims of scientific fact or uncertainty and these “knowledge politics” often have visible, broad and contradictory consequences for social inequality and social change more generally. This thematic session will consider the ways in which politicizations of scientific knowledge inside and outside the academy specifically shape efforts by social movements to confront and reduce social inequality. Invited panelists will consider power relations within and across the science/society divide as they influence the organization of social protest and resistance and alter distributions of social advantage and disadvantage in five socially consequential domains: environmental justice, gender and sexualities, biology and race, genetics and disease, and alternative energy regimes. To date, scholars have paid insufficient attention to theorizing and studying the relationship between science, movements, and social inequality. Presentations on this panel will move those interconnections into the foreground.