Biological citizenship: the science and politics of Chernobyl-exposed populations.

Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy Modern Citizenship or Policy Dead End? Evaluating the Need for Public Participation in Science Policy Making, and Why Public Meetings May Not Be the Answer

Knowledge Politics of the American Academia on Women’s Citizenship in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Islamoromic vs. Islamoveritic Understandings

Islam’s view on the status of women has been among the controversial topics in the American universities in recent decades. The rise of the political Islam and its embodiment in the Islamic Republic of Iran is considered by many critics as the turning point in the making of the Muslim women as an analytical category for the Western observers. This study focuses on Muslim women’s citizenship as ...

Science and the “Good Citizen”: Community Based Scientific Literacy

Science literacy, often defined as competency in school-like science activities, is frequently touted as a key to good citizenship. Based on a two-year ethnographic effort regarding science in the community, we suggest that science as taught in schools has no determinate relation to the activity of good citizenship. Rather, when considering the contribution of scientific activity to the greater...

Ecological citizenship: a disruptive influence

In this article two distinct but related questions are addressed. First, can the politics of ecology be articulated in terms of citizenship? An affirmative answer is given to this question, and an outline of ‘ecological citizenship’ is presented. This gives rise to the second question: how does ecological citizenship affect the idea of citizenship itself? This question is answered through the a...

Fostering good citizenship through ethical leadership: exploring the moderating role of gender and organizational politics.

Considering the implications of social exchange theory as a context for social role behavior, we tested relations between ethical leadership and both person- and task-focused organizational citizenship behavior and examined the roles played by employee gender and politics perceptions. Although social exchange theory predicts that ethical leadership is positively associated with citizenship, soc...