"Which responsibility?" Chiusura del call
Chiudendo questo call for comments sullo statuto corrente della responsabilità dell'innovazione, ringrazio tutti coloro che hanno partecipato e si sono interrogati sulle questioni poste. Gli interventi - come era naturale... - MorePosted by Cristina Grasseni on April 2, 2006 9:30 PM. Permalink

'Audit Cultures', by Marilyn Strathern - Book review
In her edited collection Audit Cultures published in 2000 by Routledge, one of the leading figures of British anthropology, Marilyn Strathern, sets out to chart a new "kind of culture... - MorePosted by Cristina Grasseni on July 22, 2005 10:58 AM. Permalink - Read and leave a comment

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How to map complex issues?
In this interview, taken at the Cerisy colloquium organised by Bruno Latour and Philippe Descola on "L'anthropologie historique de la raison scientifique", (July 12th- 19th 2006), Cristina Grasseni gathered Bruno Latour's view s on responsible innovation and its relevance to the research agenda of historians, anthropologists, philosophers and sociologists of science. - MorePosted by Cristina Grasseni on June 11, 2007 10:41 AM. Permalink - Read and leave a comment
See also: Latour in the Call fro Comment Which responsibility?
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Is responsible innovation participatory, and if so, how?
Is responsible innovation participatory, and if so, how? Interviewed on his decade-long work on the history of science and its relevance to issues such as secrecy, scientist's responsibility, public understanding and public participation, Prof. Peter Galison of Harvard University offers an intriguing insight in the topic of responsible innovation. According to him, naive notions of compromise and participation do not explain "how you can put people in a position where they can make decisions, informed decisions about what’s going on". - MorePosted by Cristina Grasseni on March 10, 2007 12:33 PM. Permalink - Read and leave a comment
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New Rites For Democracy?
On February 15th 2008, at the premises of the Bassetti Foundation in Milan, the sociologist of science Brian Wynne opened the seminar chaired by Piero Bassetti and Mariachiara Tallacchini about the report for the European Commission, Taking European Society Seriously (2007), now translated in Italian under the auspices of the Bassetti Foundation (Scienza e Governance. La società europea della conoscenza presa sul serio. Rubbettino, 2008). What follows is my own reconstruction of the main arguments and issues raised at the seminar. - MorePosted by Redazione FGB on February 27, 2008 1:19 PM. Permalink
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Of flies and forests: putting laboratory work in its social context (part 2)
The second part of the Interview with Sophie Houdart: "we debated on the many links between the ethnography of science and the interrogation on responsible innovation". - MorePosted by Cristina Grasseni on November 27, 2007 9:52 AM. Permalink
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Of flies and forests: putting laboratory work in its social context (part 1)
In this interview to Sophie Houdart taken at the Cerisy Cultural Centre, we debated on the many links between the ethnography of science and the interrogation on responsible innovation. The work of Sophie Houdart brings to the fore many important categories, that of fact and that of event, the idea of a moral responsibility of the scientist for the kind of "objects" he/she creates in the laboratory, and the scientist's awareness of the relevance of their work for society at large. - MorePosted by Cristina Grasseni on November 23, 2007 9:48 AM. Permalink - Read and leave a comment
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Practice and Cognition, an anthropological view
About the topic, already touched upon in the previous posts, of the role played by communities of practice in the processes of emergence and management of innovation, I wish to... - MorePosted by Cristina Grasseni on November 14, 2005 2:29 PM. Permalink

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Second thoughts on responsibility
"From Causality to Responsibility: Steps towards the Unknown" by Mariachiara Tallacchini. Contemporary scientific knowledge is characterized increasingly by uncertainty (O'Riordan and Cameron, 1994). This is due not only because both the risks and the unpredictability linked to it are increasing, but... - MorePosted by Cristina Grasseni on June 24, 2006 10:19 AM. Permalink - Read and leave a comment

Slow food, fast genes: the different timescapes of innovation and responsibility in the anthropology of food (1)
This is a first attempt at focussing on issues and questions of timescapes, responsibility and creativity with regard to the issue of the production and consumption of food in contemporary Italy. - MorePosted by Cristina Grasseni on June 5, 2005 7:58 AM. Permalink
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Slow food, fast genes: the different timescapes of innovation and responsibility in the anthropology of food (2)
(continuing from "Slow food, fast genes... (1)") Timescapes of authenticity Innovation or creativity: which is the best concept for explaining the kind of novelty that affects our daily consumption of... - MorePosted by Cristina Grasseni on June 6, 2005 8:11 AM. Permalink
Which responsibility? - part 1- ...This call for comments continues in the next entry...
The ambitious goal of this call is that of initiating an exploration of possible ways of reflecting on the concepts of responsibility and innovation, without losing sight of the social,... - MorePosted by Cristina Grasseni on February 2, 2006 12:00 PM. Permalink - Read and leave a comment
Which responsibility? -part 2- (...continues from the previous entry)
First of all thanks to all those who have so far contributed to this call for comments, which I plan to close on April 1st. I briefly recapitulate the line... - MorePosted by Cristina Grasseni on March 19, 2006 8:46 PM. Permalink - Read and leave a comment





