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Tensions Between Democracy And Expertise In The Florida Keys, Elizabeth A. Loyer
Tensions Between Democracy And Expertise In The Florida Keys, Elizabeth A. Loyer
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The proposed release of genetically modified mosquitoes (GMM) in the Florida Keys to combat the spread of diseases such as Zika prompted heated local debate, turning a seemingly routine mosquito control policy into a public scientific controversy. Arguments about the GMM derive from inventional commonplaces where the historical conflict between democratic systems of civic deliberation and the epistemic authority of expertise is instantiated. This project analyzes the topoi that Keys participants gather around to generate their argumentative positions as published in public, local print and digital news articles, blog posts, and letters to the editor between 2011 and 2016. Investigating …