Science, governance, and public participation: an analysis of decision making on genetic modification in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Public Underst Sci
; 21(4): 447-64, 2012 May.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-23038858
ABSTRACT
The acceptance of public participation in science and technology governance in liberal democratic contexts is evident in the institutionalization of a variety of mechanisms for participation in recent decades. Yet questions remain about the extent to which institutions have actually transformed their policy practice to embrace democratic governance of techno-scientific decision making. A critical discourse analysis of the response to public participation by the Environmental Risk ManagementAuthority (ERMA), the key decision-making body on genetic modification in Aotearoa/New Zealand, in a specific case demonstrates that ERMA systematically marginalized concerns raised by the public about risk management, ethics, and ecological, economic, and cultural issues in order to give primacy to a positivist, technological worldview. Such delegitimization of public perspectives pre-empts the possibility of the democratic governance of science.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Policy Making
/
Genetic Engineering
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Community Participation
/
Agriculture
Type of study:
Etiology_studies
/
Prognostic_studies
Aspects:
Ethics
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Oceania
Language:
En
Journal:
Public Underst Sci
Journal subject:
CIENCIA
/
HISTORIA DA MEDICINA
Year:
2012
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
New Zealand