Technological modifications of food are being marketed as novel products that will enhance consumer choice and nutritional value. A recent manifestation is nanotechnology, entering the global food chain through food production, pesticides, vitamins, and food packaging. This article presents a detailed literature review on risk and benefit perceptions of technological developments for food and agriculture, including our own research from US deliberative workshops on nanotechnologies. The article suggests that many of the public concerns discussed in the literature on biotechnology in food are being raised in qualitative and quantitative studies on nanotechnologies for food: although nanotechnologies are generally perceived to be beneficial, many people express particular uneasiness about nanotechnological modifications of food. The article argues that these concerns represent material examples of unresolved social issues involving technologies and the food industry, including questions about the benefits of nanotechnology for food, and the heightened values attached to food as a cultural domain.
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From Biotech to Nanotech
Public Debates about Technological Modifi cation of Food
Jennifer B. Rogers-Brown, Christine Shearer, and Barbara Herr Harthorn
People's Mic and democratic charisma
Occupy Wall Street's frontier assemblies
Chris Garces
The People's Mic is a new genre of political speech. In Occupy Wall Street (OWS) general assemblies, this tactile media for public deliberation was integral to embodying new political community across American cities in a globally oriented movement of the squares. Whether or not OWS has exemplified direct democracy per se, the People's Mic has cultivated new forms of democratic charisma between previously disaggregated constituencies-a “leaderful charisma“, with historical roots in pious American oratorical traditions (“hallowed speech“) and more recent movements for intercultural solidarity building (global justice, horizontalist, feminist, etc.). In this article, I signal how the People's Mic atavistically conjured and resembled the American town hall meeting in a contemporary and heterogeneous US frontier assembly. Before its strategic incapacitation, the Occupy movement's widespread use of People's Mic served to undermine the authority of private-public monopolies and to place a check on mounting police repression of urban space.
Understanding Agency: Social Theory and Responsible Action, by Barry Barnes. London: Sage Publications, 2000. Reviewed by Christine MacDonald
Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice, by Bent Flyvbjerg. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Reviewed by Roger Deacon
Is Data Human? The Metaphysics of Star Trek, by Richard Hanley. Basic Books, 1997. Reviewed by Deane Baker
The Skeptical Environmentalist, by Bjorn Lomborg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Reviewed by Julia de Kadt
Edward Said and the Writing of History, by Shelley Walia. Icon/Totem Books, 2001. Edward Said: A Critical Introduction, by Valerie Kennedy. Cambridge: Polity, 2000. The Edward Said Reader, edited by Moustafa Bayoumi, Andrew Rubin and Edward Said. Vintage Books, 2000. Reviewed by Derek Hook
Lenin: A Biography, by Robert Service. London: Macmillan, 2000. Reviewed by Derek Hook
Citizenship and Democracy in a Global Era, edited by Andrew Vandenberg. Macmillan and St Martin’s Press, 2000. Reviewed by Kirsten Trotter
Democracy as Public Deliberation: New Perspectives, edited by Maurizio Passerin d’Entrèves. Perspectives on Democratisation Series. Manchester University Press: Manchester and New York, 2002. Reviewed by Laurence Piper
Deliberation and Courts
The Role of the Judiciary in a Deliberative System
Donald Bello Hutt
), and Cohen defined deliberative democracy as ‘an association whose affairs are governed by the public deliberation of its members’ (1997: 67). For Bohman, during early formulations of the theory ‘deliberation was always opposed to aggregation and to the
Babies and Boomers
Intergenerational Democracy and the Political Epidemiology of COVID-19
Toby Rollo
crisis and not others? Barring some intellectual disability ( Simplican 2015 ) that reduces an adult citizen to the cognitive capacities of a child, all adults are permitted to vote and participate in public deliberations. In the United States, the
Monique Deveaux
–57 ) discussion of “internal exclusion” in political life captures how a range of factors, from status differentials to different styles of political speech, can privilege some and disadvantage others in public deliberation and decision-making. But I want to
Daryl Glaser
public deliberation. The assembly’s failure persuaded the VC to reopen the university without the agreement of the student militants, and behind a shield of private security and state police forces. The university year concluded, albeit in an academically
Anna Scolobig, Luigi Pellizzoni, and Chiara Bianchizza
relevant trade-offs are acknowledged and dealt with—namely, those related to diverse possible approaches to risk mitigation, which impinge in different ways on local interests, values, and power distribution. In other words, public deliberation on risk
Filimon Peonidis
. Bouricius , Terry . 2013 . “ Democracy Through Multi-Body Sortition: Athenian Lessons for the Modern Day .” Journal of Public Deliberation 9 ( 1 ). http://www.publicdeliberation.net/jpd/vol9/iss1/art11 (accessed 12 May 2016 ). Bouricius , Terry
Participatory Democracy in Unlikely Places
What Democratic Theorists Can Learn from Democratic Professionals
Selen A. Ercan’s and Albert W. Dzur
time, like it was missing from the deliberative democratic research agenda: who’s actually putting deliberation in practice or trying to produce sites of public deliberation? That lead me to fields of activity I came to think of as democratic