Engaging Across Boundaries—Emerging Practices in ‘Technical Democracy’
Author(s)
Du Plessis, R
Hindmarsh, R
Cronin, K
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2010
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This special issue examines strategies for public engagement in science and technology issues in Australia, Japan and Aotearoa/New Zealand. It traverses issues relating to new energy technologies, food nanotechnology, the environmental impacts of dioxins, toxic waste disposal, genetic modification and the way scientists engage with the social dimensions of new biotechnologies. The papers look critically at engagement across scientist/non-scientist boundaries and explore how these boundaries are confounded and reworked in particular contexts. This is an increasingly popular theme in Science, Technology and Society studies.This special issue examines strategies for public engagement in science and technology issues in Australia, Japan and Aotearoa/New Zealand. It traverses issues relating to new energy technologies, food nanotechnology, the environmental impacts of dioxins, toxic waste disposal, genetic modification and the way scientists engage with the social dimensions of new biotechnologies. The papers look critically at engagement across scientist/non-scientist boundaries and explore how these boundaries are confounded and reworked in particular contexts. This is an increasingly popular theme in Science, Technology and Society studies.
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Journal Title
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal
Volume
4
Issue
4
Subject
Anthropology
Government and politics of Asia and the Pacific
Sociology
History and philosophy of specific fields