Dis-inviting the Unruly Public

Saille, Stevienna de

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“…Increasing complexity necessarily entails the increasing deployment of expertise, whether scientific or policy or otherwise. From one perspective, there is a risk that these assumptions will become increasingly implicit, unaccountable, and uncontested or uncontestable as a result (de Saille, 2015). However, complexity also opens up opportunities for challenges to assumptions, as a result of the contradictions between assumptions and/or in claims about expertise.…”

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“…It is increasingly evident, for example, that techno-economic assumptions limit the scope for citizen engagement in deciding upon the aims or effects of technoscience or capitalism, outwith a very narrow framework in which publics are confined to specific roles (Welsh and Wynne, 2013;de Saille, 2015). In their articles for this special forum, both Scoville (2017) and Beumer (2017) show how certain assumptions close down certain decisions as possible choices.…”

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“…As Welsh and Wynne (2013) note, however, there is a growing resistance to these sorts of economic assumptions and their embedding of a particular attitude to technoscience, namely as an unambiguous driver or source of 'national economic progress' (see Hess, 2010;de Saille, 2015;de Saille and Medvecky, 2016). Given that technoscience and economics are increasingly entangled as ontological and epistemic objects, as knowledges and as practices, more work is necessary to unpack the economic assumptions underpinning technoscience.…”

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“…Initiatives were also created within the machinery of government, including the Sciencewise dialogues on science and technology (Macnaghten and Chilvers, 2014;Sciencewise, 2020). Scholars have in turn learned from decades of practice, developing more critical and reflexive approaches to engagement processes which serve as important foundations for RI (Chilvers, 2013;Kearnes, 2016, 2020;De Saille, 2015;Doubleday and Wynne, 2011;Smallman, 2016;Stilgoe et al, 2014).…”

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Organisational institutionalisation of responsible innovation

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We describe the institutionalisation of responsible innovation (RI) over the last decade at the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and universities funded by it as a focal point for RI in the UK. Drawing on organisational theory we identify factors influencing the dynamics of RI institutionalisation, including forces of legitimation, entrepreneurship and decoupling. We report significant institutionalisation at the EPSRC prior to 2013, when it published its RI policy. Notwithstanding instances of experimentation and assimilation since, we report limited institutionalisation within research communities in universities as RI has encountered competing institutional logics, responsibility norms and epistemic practices. Our findings suggest an ongoing and dynamic process of translation that reflects RI's status as a performative and contested discourse 'in the making'.

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“…Some of these concerns with responsibility have been visible for a number of decades in medicine and the biosciences through the embedding of research ethics oversight and ethical review processes. However, recently -and across science and engineering more broadly -they are currently visible when embodied as RRI, which has risen to prominence in the last four years as part of European research policy (Owen et al 2012;de Saille 2015b). Here, one early and prominent association was between RRI and nanoscience, as part of a European Commission (EC 2009) call for the Responsible Development of Nanotechnologies (Rip 2014).…”

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A Mobilising Concept? Unpacking Academic Representations of Responsible Research and Innovation

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This paper makes a plea for more reflexive attempts to develop and anchor the emerging concept of responsible research and innovation (RRI). RRI has recently emerged as a buzzword in science policy, becoming a focus of concerted experimentation in many academic circles. Its performative capacity means that it is able to mobilise resources and spaces despite no common understanding of what it is or should be 'made of'. In order to support reflection and practice amongst those who are interested in and using the concept, this paper unpacks understandings of RRI across a multi-disciplinary body of peer-reviewed literature. Our analysis focuses on three key dimensions of RRI (motivations, theoretical conceptualisations and translations into practice) that remain particularly opaque. A total of 48 publications were selected through a systematic literature search and their content was qualitatively analysed. Across the literature, RRI is portrayed as a concept that embeds numerous features of existing approaches to govern and assess emerging technologies. Our analysis suggests that its greatest potential may be in its ability to unify and provide political momentum to a wide range of long-articulated ethical and policy issues. At the same time, RRI's dynamism and resulting complexity may represent its greatest challenge. Further clarification on what RRI has to offer in practice-beyond what has been offered to date-is still needed, as well as more explicit engagement with research and institutional cultures of responsibility. Such work may help to realise the high political expectations that are attached to nascent RRI.

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Dis-inviting the Unruly Public

Cited by 32 publications

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A Mobilising Concept? Unpacking Academic Representations of Responsible Research and Innovation

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