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What rights are eclipsed when risk is defined by corporatism? : governance and GM food
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Anderson, Paul (2004) What rights are eclipsed when risk is defined by corporatism? : governance and GM food. Theory, Culture & Society, 21 (6). pp. 155-169. doi:10.1177/0263276404050460 ISSN 0263-2764.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276404050460
Abstract
Governance by corporate power and financial institutions has long been associated with the demise of the public arena and substantive democracy (Chomsky, 1992; Habermas, 1992; Westbrook, 1991). Significant among contributing factors is the presentation of new technologies. The central contention of this paper is that where public debate on the introduction or extension of new technologies is prescribed to the technical limits of the expert, such dialogue can be confined to areas which in no way question the role of these technologies in the de facto selection of an exclusive kind of society whose development they serve. It is precisely attention to the technically-defined social, economic and environmental impacts of certain technologies, at the expense of attention to their role in shaping society, that underwrites this agenda for narrowing avenues of meaningful public participation. Such confinement limits popular democratic and NGO efforts to influence the use of such technologies. As a consequence, these efforts are unlikely to succeed unless and until the reasons for narrowing public political discourse down to a technology’s technically defined risks, costs and benefits are better understood and challenged.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Theory, Culture & Society | ||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||
| ISSN: | 0263-2764 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2004 | ||||
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| Volume: | 21 | ||||
| Number: | 6 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 155-169 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/0263276404050460 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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