The socio-spatial (re)configuration of legitimacy, knowledge, and practice in chemical risk governance: integrating boundary-work and scale-frame analytics

In multiple jurisdictions, diverse stakeholders are increasingly challenging where, how, and by whom environmental health risks from chemicals should be governed. Using the case of Bisphenol A assessed under Canada’s Chemicals Management Plan, we analyse how political and epistemic legitimacy is being (re)configured, situated, and contested. We conceptually integrate distinct literatures on ‘politics of scale’, ‘scale frames’ and ‘boundary …