• Defending the 'public interest': an assessment of competing actor representations of 'solutions' to growing natural resource deficiencies. 

  Skillington, Tracey (London School of Economics and Political Science, 2016-06)

  This paper applies a SRT framework to the study of two case studies, namely the recent campaign of opposition to the legalization of hydraulic fracking in the State of New York and the more ongoing debate on land leasing ...
• Risk definition and the struggle for legitimation: a case study of Bt cotton in Andhra Pradesh, India 

  Desmond, Elaine (Taylor and Francis, 2015-05-20)

  This article explores the struggle for legitimation associated with the attempt to define the risk of Bt cotton, a genetically modified crop, in Andhra Pradesh, India. Beck asserts that, given the uncertainty associated ...
• The legitimation of risk and Bt cotton: a case study of Bantala village in Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India 

  Desmond, Elaine (Taylor and Francis, 2014-09-26)

  This article explores Ulrich Beck’s theorisation of risk society through focusing on the way in which the risk of Bt cotton is legitimated by six cultivators in Bantala, a village in Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, in India. The ...
• The legitimation of development and GM crops: The case of Bt Cotton and Indebtedness in Telangana, India 

  Desmond, Elaine (Elsevier, 2016-06-05)

  This study explores the relation between Bt cotton adoption and farmer suicides in India. This is undertaken through comparing the debt levels of Bt cotton cultivators with those adopting alternative organic and Non-Pesticide ...
• The provision of adult and community education in the Northside of Dublin City: research report to the Respond Housing Association 

  O'Sullivan, Siobhan; McMurry, Nicholas; Desmond, Elaine; O'Connell, Cathal (Shared Insight, for Respond Housing, 2014-09)

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