Science, Politics and the Dilemmas of Openness: Here Be Monsters

354 Pages·2018·5.402 MB·English

by  Brigitte Nerlich et al. (eds.)

Science and the politics
of openness

Science and the politics
of openness
Here be monsters
Edited by Brigitte Nerlich, Sarah Hartley,
Sujatha Raman and Alexander Smith
Manchester University Press
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Contents
List of figures and tables page viii
List of contributors ix
Introduction – Brigitte Nerlich, Sujatha Raman,
Sarah Hartley, Alexander Thomas T. Smith 1
Coda: reflections on the politics of openness in a
new world order – Alexander Thomas T. Smith 12
Part I Transparency
1 Transparency – Benjamin Worthy 23
2 Open access: the beast that no-one could – or should –
control? – Stephen Curry 33
3 Assuaging fears of monstrousness: UK and Swiss
initiatives to open up animal laboratory research
– Carmen M. McLeod 55
4 What counts as evidence in adjudicating asylum
claims? Locating the monsters in the machine:
an investigation of faith-based claims –
Roda Madziva and Vivien Lowndes 75
Part II Responsibility
5 Responsibility – Barbara Prainsack and
Sabina Leonelli 97
vi Contents
6 Leviathan and the hybrid network: Future Earth,
co-production and the experimental life of a global
institution – Eleanor Hadley Kershaw 107
7 ‘Opening up’ energy transitions research for
development – Alison Mohr 131
8 Monstrous regiment versus Monsters Inc.:
competing imaginaries of science and social
order in responsible (research and) innovation
– Stevienna de Saille and Paul Martin 148
Part III Expertise
9 Expertise – Mark B. Brown 169
10 Disentangling risk assessment: new roles for
experts and publics – Sarah Hartley and
Adam Kokotovich 176
11 Monstrous materialities: ash dieback and
plant biosecurity in Britain – Judith Tsouvalis 195
1 2 An Inconvenient Truth: a social representation
of scientific expertise – Warren Pearce and
Brigitte Nerlich 212
13 ‘Science Matters’ and the public interest:
the role of minority engagement – Sujatha Raman,
Pru Hobson-West, Mimi E. Lam and Kate Millar 230
Part IV Faith
14 Faith – Chris Toumey 253
15 Re-examining ‘creationist’ monsters in the uncharted
waters of social studies of science and religion – Fern
Elsdon-Baker 259
16 Playing God: religious influences on the depictions
of science in mainstream movies – David A. Kirby
and Amy C. Chambers 278
Contents vii
Afterword: monstrous markets – neo-liberalism,
populism and the demise of the public university
– John Holmwood and Jan Balon 303
Epilogue: publics, hybrids, transparency, monsters and the
changing landscape around science – Stephen Turner 322
Index 333
Figures and tables
Figure
16.1 Pamphlet on the creationist origins of
Jurassic Park’s dinosaurs disseminated by
the Southwest Radio Church. 292
Table
10.1 A framework for public involvement in
risk assessment 189