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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ftunivnantes:oai:HAL:hal-02183993v1 2023-05-15T15:34:30+02:00 Acting in an Uncertain World: An Essay on Technical Democracy Barthe, Yannick Callon, Michel Lascoumes, Pierre Sciences Po (Sciences Po) Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation i3 (CSI i3) Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (Sciences Po, CNRS) (CEE) Sciences Po (Sciences Po)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2009-03 https://hal-sciencespo.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02183993 en eng HAL CCSD MIT Press info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/hdl/2441/4b1hq9muclp43is97e83l84sg hal-02183993 https://hal-sciencespo.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02183993 SCIENCESPO: 2441/4b1hq9muclp43is97e83l84sg https://hal-sciencespo.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02183993 MIT Press, pp.298, 2009 [SHS.SCIPO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science info:eu-repo/semantics/book Books 2009 ftunivnantes 2023-03-08T05:25:05Z 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 Université de Nantes: HAL-UNIV-NANTES |
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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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