Consumers and Nanotechnology

Deliberative Processes and Methodologies
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-981-4316-16-3
Verlag: Pan Stanford Publishing Pte Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 560 g

In recent years, questions democratic influence on science and technology has received much attention. The lesson from the European unrest over GMO is that consumer-citizens will react negatively to just having to accept the introduction of new, partly untested technologies. A number of political bodies have started to involve citizens and to consider their concerns, attitudes, hopes, and worries in an early stage of the coming nano revolution. An international consortium of experts mapped a large number of these deliberations, mainly in the European Union and the United States, and proceeded to give closer analysis of a selection of those that were found most interesting. The second part of the book analyzes seven citizen-oriented deliberations. The third part of the book looks into a set of more stakeholder-oriented deliberations.

Zielgruppe

Researchers and postgraduate- and graduate-level students in sociology and political science; readers generally interested in questions of science and society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Throne-Holst, Harald

Soto, Eivind

Scholl, Gerd

Scholl, Gerd (IOW Berlin, Germany)

Strandbakken, Pal

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Nanotechnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Emerging Technologies and Democracy. Overview of a Set of Deliberative Processes on Nano. Citizens’ Nano Conference in Denmark. The NanoJury in the UK. Consumer Conference on Nanotechnology in Food, Cosmetics and Textiles, Germany. French Conference Cycle on Nanotechnology: "Nanomonde". Citizens’ Conference, Ile de France. Nano Technology Citizens’ Conference in Madison, USA. The US National Citizens Technology Forum on Human Enhancement: An experiment in Deliberation Across a Nation. The Convergence Seminar, the DEMOCS Card Game and Nanologue: Three Experiments with Cross National Deliberative Processes Within the 6th and 7th Framework Programme of the EU. Standardization as a Form of Deliberation. An Online Platform for Future Deliberative Processes. Conclusions: Toward a Third Generation of Deliberative Processes.

Über Autor(innen)

Pål Strandbakken is a researcher with the National Institute for Consumer Research (SIFO) since 1992. 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 STS.

Gerd Scholl is an economist currently working as a senior researcher at the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) 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 currently working as a research director at 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.