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Coproducing the Endangered Polar Bear: Science, Climate Change, and Legal Mobilization
Applying insights from science and technology studies about the âcoproductionâ of science and
sociopolitical order to research on legal mobilization yields important theoretical insights.
Using the polar bear petition campaign by the Center for Biological Diversity as an illustrative
case, this article shows how this protracted legal campaign around protection of the polar bear
and its habitat opened up new legal opportunities for those advocating for the regulation of carbon emissions, mandated state-sponsored generation of climate science, legally constructed the
polar bear as âendangered,â and helped to shape the priorities of the nongovernmental organization itself