The biological existence of human beings has become political in novel ways. The object, target and stake of this new 'vital' politics are human life itself. The contemporary state does not 'nationalize' the corporeality of its subjects into a body politic on which it works en masse, in relation to the body politics of other states competing in similar terms. Biopolitics addresses human existence at the molecular level: it is waged about molecules, amongst molecules, and where the molecules themselves are at stake. Human beings in contemporary Western culture are increasingly coming to understand themselves in somatic terms – corporeality has become of the most important sites for ethical judgements and techniques. Biopolitics was inextricably bound up with the rise of the life sciences, the human sciences, clinical medicine. It has given birth to techniques, technologies, experts and apparatuses for the care and administration of the life of each and all, from town planning to health services.

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The Politics of Life Itself

The politics of life itself Biomedicine, power, and subjectivity in the twenty-first century

The deliberative practitioner: Encouraging participatory planning processes.

The notion of the bioeconomy has gained importance in both research and policy debates over the last decade, and is frequently argued to be a key part of the solution to multiple grand challenges. Despite this, there seems to be little consensus concerning what bioeconomy actually implies. Consequently, this paper seeks to enhance our understanding of what the notion of bioeconomy means by exploring the origins, uptake, and contents of the term “bioeconomy” in the academic literature. Firstly, we perform a bibliometric analysis that highlights that the bioeconomy research community is still rather fragmented and distributed across many different fields of science, even if natural and engineering sciences take up the most central role. Secondly, we carry out a literature review that identifies three visions of the bioeconomy. The bio-technology vision emphasises the importance of bio-technology research and application and commercialisation of bio-technology in different sectors of the economy. The bio-resource vision focuses on processing and upgrading of biological raw materials, as well as on the establishment of new value chains. Finally, the bio-ecology vision highlights sustainability and ecological processes that optimise the use of energy and nutrients, promote biodiversity, and avoid monocultures and soil degradation.

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What Is the Bioeconomy? A Review of the Literature

I profile here a prospective method for assessing nature of science (NOS) knowledge, as an alternative to VNOS and similar approaches. Questions about cases in contemporary news and from history probe scientific literacy in context. Scoring targets how "well informed" the analysis is, based on identifying relevant NOS information and in- terpreting its import appropriately. The assessment shifts focus from declarative statements to functional (or interpretive) analysis. It also entails reframing current NOS characteriza- tions from selective lists of tenets to the multiple dimensions shaping reliability in scientific practice, from the experimental to the social—namely, to Whole Science. This approach underscores the role of reflective student inquiry and historical and contemporary cases in NOS instruction. C

Evaluating knowledge of the nature of (whole) science

Introduction: The Argumentative Turn Revisited / Frank Fischer and Herbert Gottweis 1 Part I. Deliberative Policy Argumentation and Public Participation 1. Fostering Deliberation in the Forum and Beyond / John S. Dryzek and Carolyn M. Hendriks 31 2. Performing Place Governance Collaboratively: Planning as a Communicative Process / Patsy Healey 58 Part II. Discursive Politics and Argumentative Practices: Institutions and Frames 3. Discursive Institutionalism: Scope, Dynamics, and Philosophical Underpinnings / Vivien A. Schmidt 85 4. From Policy Frames to Discursive Politics: Feminist Approaches to Development Policy and Planning in an Era of Globalization / Mary Hawkesworth 114 Part III. Policy Argumentation on the Internet and in Film 5. The Internet as a Space for Policy Deliberation / Stephen Coleman 149 6. Multimedia and Urban Narratives in the Planning Process: Film as Social Inquiry and Dialogue Catalyst / Leonie Sandercock and Giovanni Attili 180 Part IV. Policy Rhetoric, Argumentation, and Semiotics 7. Political Rhetoric and Stem Cell Policy in the United States: Embodiments, Scenographics, and Emotions / Herbert Gottweis 211 8. The Deep Semiotic Structure of Deservingness: Discourse and Identity in Welfare Policy / Sanford F. Schram 236 Part V. Policy Argumentation in Critical Theory and Practice: Communicative Logics and Policy Learning 9. The Argumentative Turn toward Deliberative Democracy: Habermas's Contribution and the Foucauldian Critique / Hubertus Buchstein and Dirk Joerke 271 10. Poststructuralist Policy Analysis: Discourse, Hegemony, and Critical Explanation / David Howarth and Steven Griggs 305 11. Transformative Learning in Planning and Policy Deliberation: Probing Social Meaning and Tacit Assumptions / Frank Fischer and Alan Mandell 343 Contributors 371 Index 375

The Argumentative Turn Revisited: Public Policy as Communicative Practice

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The Argumentative Turn Revisited

Part 1: Conceptualising biobanks 1 Biobanks and governance: an introduction - Herbert Gottweis and Alan Petersen 2 Biobanks in action: new strategies in the governance of life - Herbert Gottweis Part 2: How to build a biobank: comparing different approaches 3 The rise and fall of a biobank: the case of Iceland - Gisli Palsson 4 Estonia: ups and downs of a biobank project - Rain Eensaar 5 Patient organizations as the (un)usual suspects: the biobanking activities of the Association Francaise contre les Myopathies and its Genethon DNA and Cell Bank - Michaela Mayrhofer 6 'This is not a national biobank': the politics of local biobanks in Germany - Ingrid Schneider 7 Governing DNA: prospects and problems in the proposed large United States population cohort - Amy Fletcher 8 Governance by stealth: large-scale pharmacogenomics and biobanking in Japan - Robert Triendl and Herbert Gottweis Part 3: Biobanks, publics, and citizenship 9 UK Biobank: bioethics as a technology of governance - Oonagh Corrigan and Alan Petersen 10 Biobanks and the biopolitics of inclusion and representation - Richard Tutton 11 The informed consenters: governing biobanks in Scandinavia - Lars Oystein Ursin, Klaus Hoeyer, & John-Arne Skolbekken 12 Framing consent: the politics of 'engagement' in an Australian biobank project - Beverley McNamara and Alan Petersen 13 Governing through biobanks: Research populations in Israel - Barbara Prainsack

Biobanks : governance in comparative perspective

This article examines public perceptions of biobanks in Europe using a multi-method approach combining quantitative and qualitative data. It is shown that public support for biobanks in Europe is variable and dependent on a range of interconnected factors: people’s engagement with biobanks; concerns about privacy and data security, and trust in the socio-political system, key actors and institutions involved in biobanks. We argue that the biobank community needs to acknowledge the impact of these factors if they are to successfully develop and integrate biobanks at a pan-European level.

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Publics and biobanks: Pan-European diversity and the challenge of responsible innovation

Personal-genome tests are blurring the boundary between experts and lay people. Barbara Prainsack, Jenny Reardon and a team of international collaborators urge regulators to rethink outdated models of regulation.

Herbert Gottweis

Papers

The Argumentative Turn Revisited: Public Policy as Communicative Practice

The Argumentative Turn Revisited

Biobanks : governance in comparative perspective

Publics and biobanks: Pan-European diversity and the challenge of responsible innovation

Personal genomes: Misdirected precaution.