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Citizen Science and the Neoliberal Transformation of Science – an Ambivalent Relationship

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
Volume 4 (2019): Issue 1
By: Katrin Vohland,  Maike Weißpflug and  Lisa Pettibone  
Open Access
|Oct 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.186 | Journal eISSN: 2057-4991
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Language: English
Submitted on: Jun 29, 2018
Accepted on: Sep 11, 2019
Published on: Oct 24, 2019
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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Keywords:
citizen science,
neoliberalism,
participatory research,
biodiversity monitoring,
health

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