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Vincenzo Pavone

Bio: Vincenzo Pavone is an academic researcher from Spanish National Research Council. The author has contributed to research in topics: Critical security studies & Security through obscurity. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 34 publications receiving 468 citations.

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01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: To build trust and solve the controversy between the intrinsic uncertainty of science and the demand for safety coming from the citizens-consumers, the scientific community together with industry and policymakers should set up an open, self-reflexive, and multidisciplinary process of technology assessment.
Abstract: The adoption of regulations concerning transgenic food is expected to ensure consumers that authorized products have been deemed safe. The majority of scientists agree on the safety of genetically modified organisms (GMOs); however, contradictory reports on health risks associated with GMOs have appeared in the scientific literature, supporting the conclusion that risk assessment is a science of uncertainty that requires more than just scientific knowledge. To build trust and solve the controversy between the intrinsic uncertainty of science and the demand for safety coming from the citizens-consumers, the scientific community together with industry and policymakers should set up an open, self-reflexive, and multidisciplinary process of technology assessment in which scientific knowledge is integrated by societal knowledge proceeding from different social actors. The scientific community, in particular, should also openly acknowledge the existence of uncertainties and risks and ensure that research on GMO safety is not dependent on the positions of large corporations. In a way, institutions deputed to the advancement of scientific knowledge should promote themselves as a new agora and become central meeting points where all can engage in science innovations, learn, and share expertise and experience. The final goal is to enable citizens to acquire the necessary tools for building up the democratic possibility to choose among present and future options enabled by biology innovations and become active actors of the society of knowledge.

2 citations

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01 Jan 2017
TL;DR: Pavone et al. as discussed by the authors studied the process of value creation, appropriation and distribution sustaining the reprogenetics sector of the Spanish reproductive bioeconomy, and found that value does not proceed entirely from the extraction and appropriation of the latent (re)generative capabilities of the human body, but rather from the incorporation of reproductive tissue and practices in the capitalist regime of accumulation.
Abstract: This chapter addresses the social, economic, legal and political articulations of the reproductive bioeconomy in Spain . More specifically, it studies the process of value creation , appropriation and distribution sustaining the reprogenetics sector of the Spanish reproductive bioeconomy . Drawing from 28 semi-structured interviews with IVF patients undergoing PGD/PGS in Spain, Pavone suggests that value does not proceed entirely from the extraction and appropriation of the latent (re)generative capabilities of the human body , but rather from the incorporation of reproductive tissue and practices in the capitalist regime of accumulation . This incorporation seems to be accomplished through a process of bio-identification, which stabilizes recalcitrant bio-objects , like PGD/PGS embryos , and attributes value to them as they get incorporated into a reprogenetics value chain based on four, overlapping, technical, normative, social and economic steps.

2 citations


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01 Feb 2009
TL;DR: This Secret History documentary follows experts as they pick through the evidence and reveal why the plague killed on such a scale, and what might be coming next.
Abstract: Secret History: Return of the Black Death Channel 4, 7-8pm In 1348 the Black Death swept through London, killing people within days of the appearance of their first symptoms. Exactly how many died, and why, has long been a mystery. This Secret History documentary follows experts as they pick through the evidence and reveal why the plague killed on such a scale. And they ask, what might be coming next?

5,234 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors employ a novel conceptual framework in their research on industrial clusters in Europe, Latin America and Asia and provide new perspectives and insights for researchers and policymakers alike.
Abstract: This book opens a fresh chapter in the debate on local enterprise clusters and their strategies for upgrading in the global economy. The authors employ a novel conceptual framework in their research on industrial clusters in Europe, Latin America and Asia and provide new perspectives and insights for researchers and policymakers alike.

913 citations