Viewpoint: Sydney water contamination crisis: Manufacturing dissent

摘要

The widely publicised contamination of Syd- ney's water supply in July 1998 felt like a crisis to affected Sydney residents but the rhetoric did not match the reality. We are interested in the way our reality is constructed, the way we manu- facture consent or dissent, the way in which some knowledge is privileged and the way that power is attached to this knowledge. The Sydney Water Contamination Crisis sparked our Interest because it proved to be an excellent Event to watch: we could daily track the con- Struction of 'truth', the attempts to unravel or Deconstruct this 'truth'.