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Michel (CSI Ecole des mines de Paris) Callon

Acting in an Uncertain World

An Essay on Technical Democracy

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A call for a new form of democracy in which hybrid forums” composed of experts and laypeople address such sociotechnical controversies as hazardous waste, genetically modified organisms, and nanotechnology.Controversies over such issues as nuclear waste, genetically modified organisms, asbestos, tobacco, gene therapy, avian flu, and cell phone towers arise almost daily as rapid scientific and technological advances create uncertainty and bring about unforeseen concerns. The authors of Acting in an Uncertain World argue that political institutions must be expanded and improved to manage these controversies, to transform them into productive co… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Lascoumes, Pierre (CEVIPOF) / Barthe, Yannick (Centre de sociologie de l'innovation) / Burchell, Graham
  • ISBN: 978-0-262-51596-2
  • EAN: 9780262515962
  • Produktnummer: 10485275
  • Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 300 S.
  • Masse: H22.8 cm x B16.2 cm x D1.6 cm 402 g
  • Abbildungen: 6 b&w illus., 8 tables; 14 Illustrations, unspecified
  • Gewicht: 402
  • Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor


Michel Callon, developer (with Bruno Latour and others) of Actor Network Theory, is Professor at the École des mines de Paris and a Researcher at the Centre de Sociologie de l'innovation there.Pierre Lascoumes is Director of Research at CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientfique).Yannick Barthe is a Researcher at CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) and a member of the Centre de sociologie de l'innovation.

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