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Title Consumers and nanotechnology : deliberative processes and methodologies / editd by Pål Strandbakken, Gerd Scholl, Eivind Støo
Edition Second edition
Published Singapore : Jenny Stanford Publishing, [2021]
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 329 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Summary This book presents findings from EU (and other) projects on the theme of science in society, focusing on nanotechnology and the potential for democratisation of science. It is based on hands-on studies of a set of deliberative processes analysed by the European Commission's FP7 NANOPLAT project. With added material in the second edition, the book gives a unique insight into the development of deliberative processes on nanotechnology from the start in June 2004 in Denmark up to the present. The analysis is based on an observation of generations' of deliberations and it develops the third-generation deliberation, first theoretically and then gets to test it out empirically under the NanoDiode project. In addition, it presents a version of Callon's hybrid forum', called HF 2.0, and compares this approach to the deliberations. In light of the RRI approaches, the new concluding chapter considers the potential for a more democratic science through public engagement
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes PART I: SCIENCE AND DEMOCRACY 1. Emerging Technologies, Deliberations and Democracy2. Overview of a Set of Deliberative Processes on Nano PART II: CITIZEN-ORIENTED DELIBERATIVE PROCESSESIntroduction to Part II3. Citizens' Nano Conference in Denmark4. The NanoJury in the United Kingdom5. Consumer Conference on the Perception of Nanotechnology in the Areas of Food, Cosmetics, and Textiles, Germany6. French Conferences Cycle on Nanotechnology: Nanomonde7. Citizens' Conference, Île-de-FranceAppendix 1. Policy Recommendations from the Citizens' Conference8. Nanotechnology Citizens' Conference in Madison, USAAppendix 2. Written Submission from the Citizens' Coalition on Nanotechnology9. The U.S. National Citizens' Technology Forum on Human Enhancement: An Experiment in Deliberation Across a NationAppendix 3. Facilitators PART III: STAKEHOLDER-ORIENTED DELIBERATIVE PROCESSES Introduction to Part III10. Experiments with Cross-National Deliberative Processes Within FP6 and FP7 of the EuropeanUnion: The Convergence Seminars, the DEMOCS Card Games, and the Nanologue Project11. Standardisation as a Form of Deliberation12. An Online Platform for Further Deliberative Processes PART IV: AN ASPECT OF A MORE DEMOCRATIC SCIENCE: THE FUTURE OF DELIBERATIVE PROCESSES ON NANOTECHNOLOGY AND OTHER EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES13. Outlook 2013: Towards a Third Generation of Deliberative Processes14. Third-Generation Deliberative Processes on Nanotechnology15. Participatory democracy: Hybrid Forums and Deliberative Processes as Methodological Tools 16. Conclusion 2020: A More Democratic Science Through Public Engagement?
Pl̄ Strandbakken is a sociologist currently working as a researcher at SIFO Consumption Research Norway, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. He has also worked on the project Alternative Future from 1988 to 1992 for the Norwegian Parliament. His current research interests are environmental sociology, ELSA aspects of nanotechnology, product durability, and science and technology studies. Gerd Scholl is an economist and an independent consultant. Formerly, he worked as a senior researcher at the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IOW) in Berlin. His main areas of interest include sustainable consumption and production, sustainable marketing and consumers, and new technologies. Eivind Stø is a political scientist and he retired as a research director from the National Institute for Consumer Research in Norway. His main areas of interest include the sociology of consumption, sustainable production and consumption, and consumer complaints
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Subject Nanotechnology -- Decision making -- Citizen participation
Deliberative democracy.
Nanotechnology -- Government policy -- Citizen participation
Science -- Social aspects.
Science and state.
Nanotechnology.
TECHNOLOGY -- Nanotechnology.
Deliberative democracy
Nanotechnology
Science and state
Science -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Strandbakken, Pål, editor.
Scholl, Gerd, editor.
Stø, Eivind, editor.
ISBN 9781000368017
1000368017
9781000367997
1000367991
9781003159858
1003159850