Beyond Technocracy Science, Politics and Citizens
Nuclear energy, stem cell technology, GMOs: the more science advances, the more society seems to resist. But are we really watching a death struggle between opposing forces, as so many would have it? Can today’s complex technical policy decisions coincide
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Massimiano Bucchi
Beyond Technocracy Science, Politics and Citizens
Massimiano Bucchi Università di Trento
Translated by Adrian Belton
Translated from the Italian Scegliere il mondo che vogliamo. Cittadini, politica, tecnoscienza by Massimiano Bucchi, published by Società editrice il Mulino S.p.a., Bologna, Italy © 2006.
ISBN 978-0-387-89521-5 e-ISBN 978-0-387-89522-2 DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-89522-2 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009928234 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Acknowledgements
I should thank Barbara Allen, Piero Bassetti, Alessia Graziano, Bruno Latour, Federico Neresini, Giuseppe Pellegrini, Roberto Franzosi, Pierangelo Schiera, Mariachiara Tallacchini, Giuseppe Testa and Bryan Wynne for their discussions and encouragement; Marco Cavalli and Renato Mazzolini for reading and commenting on earlier versions of this manuscript; Marco Brunazzo and Mario Diani for important bibliographic suggestions on Chap. 3; Adrian Belton and Alessia Bertagnolli for their translating and editing work. Some of the arguments presented here have been discussed during seminars at the European University Institute, the Center for Genomics and Society dell’Università di Exeter and the London School of Economics. I should thank all participants for their comments and in particular Donatella Della Porta, Martin Bauer and Massimo Mazzotti.
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Contents
Introduction Science and Society: A Clash of Civilizations? .................................................
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1 The Technocratic Response: All Power to the Experts ..........................
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1.1 The “Missionary” Wing of Technocracy: “Deficit” and the Public Understanding of Science ............................................ 1.2 The Flimsy Pillars of the Technocratic View ...................................... 1.3 Democracy and Ignorance ................................................................... 1.4 A Flour that Threatened to Bring Down a Government ......................
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Einstein Has Left the Building: Coming to Terms with Post-academic Science.......................................................
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2.1 A Post-academic Science? ............................
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