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Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States
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A chronology of key events and figures from the history of Europe to the present day, annotated with references to Republics of Science and other sources.Abstract:
LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS xi Prologue 1 Chapter 1: Why Compare? 13 Chapter 2: Controlling Narratives 42 Chapter 3: A Question of Europe 68 Chapter 4: Unsettled Settlements 94 Chapter 5: Food for Thought 119 Chapter 6: Natural Mothers and Other Kinds 146 Chapter 7: Ethical Sense and Sensibility 171 Chapter 8: Making Something of Life 203 Chapter 9: The New Social Contract 225 Chapter 10: Civic Epistemology 247 Chapter 11: Republics of Science 272 APPENDIX: CHRONOLOGY 293 NOTES 295 REFERENCES 339 INDEX 361read more
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"Opening up" and "closing down" power, participation, and pluralism in the social appraisal of technology
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the role of power in science and technology and identify key commonalities transcending the analysis/participation dichotomy, concluding that greater appreciation is required in both analytic and participatory appraisal to facilitate the opening up (rather than the closing down) of governance commitments on science and technologies.
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Containing the Atom: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Nuclear Power in the United States and South Korea
Sheila Jasanoff,Sang-Hyun Kim +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative analysis of the development and regulation of nuclear power in the US and South Korea is presented, showing that the nature of those imaginations has remained strikingly different, and that these disparate imaginaries have underwritten very different responses to a variety of nuclear shocks and challenges.
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What’s next for science communication? Promising directions and lingering distractions
TL;DR: Research from the social sciences on how the public makes sense of and participates in societal decisions about science and technology is reviewed, offering a set of detailed recommendations for improved public engagement efforts on the part of scientists and their organizations.
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What can we learn from 25 years of PUS survey research? Liberating and expanding the agenda
TL;DR: This paper reviewed key issues of public understanding of science research over the last quarter of a century and showed how the discussion has moved in relation to large-scale surveys of public perceptions by tracing developments through three paradigms: science literacy, public understanding, and science and society.
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A New Climate for Society
TL;DR: The authors argue that climate change produces discordances in established ways of understanding the human place in nature, and so offers unique challenges and opportunities for the interpretive and interpretive interpretation of the human presence in nature.
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Creating public alienation: expert cultures of risk and ethics on GMOs.
TL;DR: This alternative understanding of the basic forces and responsibilities underlying public responses recognizes that they have intellectual substance, yet their intellectual substance does not correspond with institutional expert categories, since it goes much deeper than simply ‘disagreeing with’ or ‘rejecting’ expert views.
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National politics/local identities: abortion rights activism in post-wall Berlin.
TL;DR: In March 1990, just a few months after the collapse of the East German state and the opening of the Berlin Wall, the conservative Christian Democratic Party (CDU) headed by Chancellor Helmut Kohl won a resounding electoral victory in East Germany, the government then declared its intention to unify the two German states by essentially annexing East Germany and extending West German laws and institutions to a united German state.