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Science and democracy : a science and technology studies approach / Linda Soneryd and Göran Sundqvist.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Soneryd, Linda, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy and science.
- Science and civilization.
- Technology and civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (183 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- An invaluable resource to help understand the role of scientific knowledge in governance, societal developments and democracy, this accessible book introduces students to perspectives from the field of science and technology studies.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Science and Democracy: A Science and Technology Studies Approach
- Copyright information
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1 The Best Knowledge and the Best Mode of Governance
- Introduction
- Science and democracy as representation
- Science
- Democracy
- Political complexity and technoscience
- From complexity to over- simplification
- Post- truth and STS
- Participation and STS
- The structure of the book
- PART I Separation
- 2 Science and Politics as Separate Domains
- Societal development as increased differentiation
- Autonomous institutions
- Plato's cave and Latour's two chambers
- Delegative democracy
- Conclusions
- 3 The Relationship between Science and Politics
- Scientific consensus and autonomous experts
- The linear model
- The deficit model
- Beyond technocracy and decisionism
- Political experts
- The third wave of STS
- PART II Overlap
- 4 Close but Not Too Close
- Research policy and the social contract between state and research
- From science to expertise and advice
- Useful knowledge
- Scientific experts
- The research policy landscape
- The distance
- The direction
- Boundary work and boundary organizations
- Hybridization
- PART III Co-production
- 5 Co-production of Scientific Knowledge and Societal Order
- Co-production
- Hybrid forums and technical democracy
- Reflexive experts
- Politicization of expertise
- 6 Participation as Co-production
- Why participation?
- Listening to the public
- Invited and uninvited publics
- Organizing participation
- How the EU Water Framework Directive has been applied
- Public engagement on GM crops
- The climate issue and approaches targeting consumption
- The conditions for citizen participation.
- The unpredictability of participation
- Reflexivity
- 7 Scientific Citizenship
- STS and scientific citizenship
- Citizenship, citizens, and acts of citizenship
- Exploring the contours of scientific citizenship: three examples
- Air quality and the sensing citizen
- User-driven innovation is the future
- Food advice as popular science
- The state as present through its non-presence
- 8 What Can Science and Technological Studies Say about Science and Democracy?
- Representation and participation
- The danger of celebrating hybrids
- Studies of situated practices, theories of democracy, and political philosophy
- STS and normativity
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Jan 2024).
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-2217-6
- 1-5292-2215-X
- OCLC:
- 1396553613
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