The Science of Repair: How People who Believe in Facts Can Build a Better Future

A transformative account of the role science can play in combatting injustice--by deepening our moral commitments to each other through collaborative investigation.For many people, science and social justice seem to be natural allies-the slogan "science is real" often accompanies affirmations of diversity and reproductive rights.In practice, too, doing science is an increasingly prevalent strategy of social and environmental justice movements.But while it seems apparent that science can aid in the pursuit of justice, it can be hard to explain how it does so-and thus hard to know how to deploy science most strategically. In The Science of Repair, Gwen Ottinger draws on years of on-the-ground research to offer a much-needed explanation of how science works to combat injustice.Telling the stories of ordinary people who've turned to science in the hopes of reducing toxic pollution in their communities, the scientists and innovators who've developed methods to enable communities to better r