http://www.socialsciences.cornell.edu/0609/Biotech.html
This workshop, free and open to the public, is sponsored by the ISS Contentious
Knowledge Research Team. If you will be joining us for lunch, please RSVP to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] The panels are free and no RSVP is necessary.
Amongthe most contentious strands of knowledge in the
contemporary world isthat surrounding transgenic organisms: "GMOs" in popular
parlance.These products of genetic engineering have been presented in
globalpolitics as promising a significant improvement in the human conditionor
threatening its extinction. This workshop will look specifically atcontestation
of authoritative claims in the global debate: bioproperty,biosafety,
biopolitics. How have social movements deployedauthoritative knowledge to back
their positions and legitimate theirstanding? How is science interjected into
the contention; whatdifference does science make? What has been the basis of
operativeauthority? How has framing of genetic engineering and its
productsaffected regulatory science and national politics in different
worldregions? How does the GMO debate fit into other strands of
theinternational movement confronting globalization? The point of theworkshop
is to
understand the strands of contention empirically, not toitself generate
contention.
Tentative schedule:
http://www.socialsciences.cornell.edu/0609/BiotechSchedule040708.pdf
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