2014
DOI: 10.1177/0963662514533752
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It will be a disaster! How people protest against things which have not yet happened

Abstract: In the field of science and technology studies, recent works have analyzed the multiplication of promises and predictions as a major evolution of science management. The authors involved in this "sociology of technical expectations" have documented the role played by promises in the elaboration of scientific projects and their impact on the social reception of scientific issues. Yet, little attention has been paid to the predictions regarding undesirable technological futures. This article proposes therefore t… Show more

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“…Little is known about other stakeholders’ ways to handle scientific uncertainty in public and their behavioral beliefs about it. Stakeholders from applied science and industry as well as government agencies are likely to point out the ‘promises’ of technological innovations (Quet, 2015: 4). They probably focus on robust knowledge rather than uncertainties.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Little is known about other stakeholders’ ways to handle scientific uncertainty in public and their behavioral beliefs about it. Stakeholders from applied science and industry as well as government agencies are likely to point out the ‘promises’ of technological innovations (Quet, 2015: 4). They probably focus on robust knowledge rather than uncertainties.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…They probably focus on robust knowledge rather than uncertainties. Their goal is to gain support in science, politics, industry, and finance as well as to strengthen the legitimacy and public acceptance of the scientific research areas involved (Quet, 2015). This suggests that their readiness to point out scientific uncertainty in public depends on their beliefs about how this will increase support of biotechnological research among the public and relevant actors in society.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Scientists, writers and politicians can denounce a public issue which does not exist yet as ''disasters in the making,'' arguing against future events thought probable (Quet 2014). But persistent investigations of how trailblazing sciences and bioengineering affect tomorrow's portrait of human nature are critically warranted.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…In relation to PEST, this means that publics are subjected to various contested expectations of Big Futures, or, to borrow a phrase from Ulrike Felt (eg Felt and Fochler, 2010; see also Quet, 2015), to an ‘economy of promises’. But at another level – that of social scientific academic practice – other expectations are being fashioned.…”
Section: Controversiality and The Performativity Of Futuresmentioning
confidence: 99%