All Outputs (2)

O mito da participação: uma perspectiva comparativa sobre governança científico-tecnológica (2011)
Journal Article
Guivant, J., & Macnaghten, P. (2011). O mito da participação: uma perspectiva comparativa sobre governança científico-tecnológica. Ambiente & Sociedade, 14(2), 89-104. https://doi.org/10.1590/s1414-753x2011000200007

A consensus exists in the science and technology studies literature concerning the importance and need for public participation in the governance of emerging and controversial technologies. Our argument is that public participation needs to be situat... Read More about O mito da participação: uma perspectiva comparativa sobre governança científico-tecnológica.

Converging citizens? Nanotechnology and the political imaginary of public engagement in Brazil and the United Kingdom. (2011)
Journal Article
Macnaghten, P., & Guivant, J. (2011). Converging citizens? Nanotechnology and the political imaginary of public engagement in Brazil and the United Kingdom. Public Understanding of Science, 20(2), 207-220. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662510379084

This paper offers a comparative analysis of two public engagement exercises, conducted concurrently in the UK and Brazil. Following an account of how public engagement is situated in the political imaginary of the UK and Brazil, we set out a theoreti... Read More about Converging citizens? Nanotechnology and the political imaginary of public engagement in Brazil and the United Kingdom..