Acting in an Uncertain World. An Essay on Technical Democracy
Controversies over such issues as nuclear waste, genetically modified organisms, asbestos, tobacco, gene therapy, avian flu, and cell phone towers arise almost daily as rapid scientific and technological advances create uncertainty and bring about unforeseen concerns. The authors of Acting in an Unc...
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:hal-00422009v1 2023-05-15T15:34:30+02:00 Acting in an Uncertain World. An Essay on Technical Democracy Callon, Michel Lascoumes, Pierre Barthe, Yannick Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation i3 (CSI i3) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-MINES ParisTech - École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL) Centre de recherches politiques de Sciences Po (CEVIPOF) Sciences Po (Sciences Po)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2009 https://hal-mines-paristech.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00422009 en eng HAL CCSD MIT Press hal-00422009 https://hal-mines-paristech.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00422009 https://hal-mines-paristech.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00422009 MIT Press, pp.298, 2009 [SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology info:eu-repo/semantics/book Books 2009 ftccsdartic 2021-11-21T04:52:30Z Controversies over such issues as nuclear waste, genetically modified organisms, asbestos, tobacco, gene therapy, avian flu, and cell phone towers arise almost daily as rapid scientific and technological advances create uncertainty and bring about unforeseen concerns. The authors of Acting in an Uncertain World argue that political institutions must be expanded and improved to manage these controversies, to transform them into productive conversations, and to bring about "technical democracy." They show how "hybrid forums"—in which experts, non-experts, ordinary citizens, and politicians come together—reveal the limits of traditional delegative democracies, in which decisions are made by quasi-professional politicians and techno-scientific information is the domain of specialists in laboratories. The division between professionals and laypeople, the authors claim, is simply outmoded. The authors argue that laboratory research should be complemented by everyday experimentation pursued in the real world, and they describe various modes of cooperation between the two. They explore a range of concrete examples of hybrid forums that have dealt with sociotechnical controversies including nuclear waste disposal in France, industrial waste and birth defects in Japan, a childhood leukemia cluster in Woburn, Massachusetts, and Mad Cow Disease in the United Kingdom. They discuss the implications for political decision making in general, and they describe a "dialogic" democracy that enriches traditional representative democracy. To invent new procedures for consultation and representation, they suggest, is to contribute to an endless process that is necessary for the ongoing democratization of democracy. Book Avian flu Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) |
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Controversies over such issues as nuclear waste, genetically modified organisms, asbestos, tobacco, gene therapy, avian flu, and cell phone towers arise almost daily as rapid scientific and technological advances create uncertainty and bring about unforeseen concerns. The authors of Acting in an Uncertain World argue that political institutions must be expanded and improved to manage these controversies, to transform them into productive conversations, and to bring about "technical democracy." They show how "hybrid forums"—in which experts, non-experts, ordinary citizens, and politicians come together—reveal the limits of traditional delegative democracies, in which decisions are made by quasi-professional politicians and techno-scientific information is the domain of specialists in laboratories. The division between professionals and laypeople, the authors claim, is simply outmoded. The authors argue that laboratory research should be complemented by everyday experimentation pursued in the real world, and they describe various modes of cooperation between the two. They explore a range of concrete examples of hybrid forums that have dealt with sociotechnical controversies including nuclear waste disposal in France, industrial waste and birth defects in Japan, a childhood leukemia cluster in Woburn, Massachusetts, and Mad Cow Disease in the United Kingdom. They discuss the implications for political decision making in general, and they describe a "dialogic" democracy that enriches traditional representative democracy. To invent new procedures for consultation and representation, they suggest, is to contribute to an endless process that is necessary for the ongoing democratization of democracy. |
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Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation i3 (CSI i3) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-MINES ParisTech - École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL) Centre de recherches politiques de Sciences Po (CEVIPOF) Sciences Po (Sciences Po)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
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