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Varieties of biosocial imagination : reframing responses to climate change and antibiotic resistance

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Lee, Nick (2013) Varieties of biosocial imagination : reframing responses to climate change and antibiotic resistance. Science Technology and Human Values, Volume 38 (Number 4). pp. 447-469. doi:10.1177/0162243912451498

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Abstract

The authors present climate change and antibiotic resistance as emergent biosocial phenomena—ongoing products of massively multiple interactions among human lifestyles and broader life processes. They argue that response to climate change and antibiotic resistance is often framed by two varieties of biosocial imagination. Anthropocentric imaginations privilege the question of human distinctiveness. Anthropomorphic imaginations privilege the question of whether biosocial processes can be modeled in terms of centers of moral and causal responsibility. Together, these frame the matter of response in terms of deliberate human action. The authors argue that, considered as emergent biosocial phenomena, climate change and antibiotic resistance "diffract" deliberate human action and thus limit the value of this frame by rendering the human/nonhuman and intended/nonintended distinctions that are crucial to its practical operation locally irrelevant. Alternative biosocial imaginations currently developing around climate change and antibiotic resistance that allow for "diffraction" and therefore frame response differently are considered.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- )
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Climatic changes -- Social aspects, Drug resistance in microorganisms -- Social aspects
Journal or Publication Title: Science Technology and Human Values
Publisher: Sage
ISSN: 0162-2439
Official Date: 16 July 2013
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16 July 2013Published
Volume: Volume 38
Number: Number 4
Number of Pages: 22
Page Range: pp. 447-469
DOI: 10.1177/0162243912451498
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access

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