Emerging Politics of New Genetic Technologies - Flagship Project
Broader Significance
Conceptual
- Ethnographic analysis of emergent social movement mobilisation and development of proto-politics of genetics, i.e. how techno-scientific innovations in genetics come to be defined as problematic or not
- Examination of heterogeneous social networks that develop around specific technologies and the ambiguous and complex engagement that is associated with such debates
- Analysis of the ways in which social movements across UK and Europe are consolidating efforts on key applications of medical genetics
Methodological
- Participatory and ethnographic research of emerging, and thus partly invisible, social movement organisation
- Experimentation with methods to intervene in debates and then track the diffusion of these interventions
Policy
- Enriched understanding of understandings of genetics within engaged social movement groups and their respective structures and dynamics
- Understanding of the role of ambiguity about risks and benefits of genomics and thus the need to avoid polarising debates as either 'for' or 'against'
- Explore and suggest alternative regimes of public and expert engagement so as to improve democratic scrutiny and accountability of the regulation and conduct of bio-medical innovation.
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