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CFP: Public Participation, Legitimate Political Decisions and Controversial Technologies Manuscripts should be submitted by December 1st 2016 to the following address: [email protected] From: owner-philosop-iL61FaSuDj84qs8gE/GWP9bfoEai8x3/@public.gmane.orgu [owner-philosop-iL61FaSuDj84qs8gE/[email protected]] on behalf of Jean-Philippe Royer [ [email protected]] Sent: 16 May 2016 16:35 To: [email protected] Subject: Call for papers - Public Participation, Legitimate Political Decisions and Controversial Technologies Deadline: December 1st 2016 Les Ateliers de l’éthique/The Ethics Forum Public Participation, Legitimate Political Decisions and Controversial Technologies Guest Editors: Xavier Landes (University of Copenhagen), Klemens Kappel (University of Copenhagen) et Martin Marchman (University of Copenhagen). Les Ateliers de l’éthique/The Ethics Forum invites proposals for a special issue on the topic of public participation, legitimate political decisions and controversial technologies. The central issue is how a diversity of public opinions and perceptions of controversial policies or technologies in e.g. food, health and medicine should be accommodated or respected, in particular in regard to the legal, bureaucratic and political framework of novel biotechnologies. What is required to enhance or preserve democratic legitimacy of such range of decisions? What sort of public participation should we want or require in designing the legal, bureaucratic and political framework? Especially, what weight should of public participation have compared to other requirements of justice and legitimacy? How do risks interact with public participation and acceptance? At least in the European context, the public participation paradigm has been influential in the regulation of GMO for instance. This is the idea that public participation – and some measure of public acceptance – is a precondition for legitimate decision-making in the domain of novel plant technologies. Surveys have found a considerable public resistance in all European countries regarding the use of GMOs, and in part this may explain the costly regulatory system, and the lack of will among producers to engage in the development. Yet, the suspicion is often voiced that this resistance is illegitimate because not sufficiently scientifically informed, or because not based on sufficiently cohesive and justified moral values. An additional concern is that one major potential of novel plant technology concerns climate change and food supply, issues that mainly affects humans in developing countries, and future generations, yet it is unclear how these benefits to other than those who are involved in the political decision-making process should be reflected in the public participation paradigm. So, there is considerable reason to rethink and refine the public participation paradigm as it applies novel plant technology. Papers could address the following topics: What count as being affected by a given policy?What counts as reasonable level of factually correct information upon which views should be based? What about cases in which part of the public dispute exactly is what factual information is correct?What sort of consent is required? Actual consent might seem clearly too demanding. A commonly mentioned possibility in political theory is to consider decisions as being legitimate when they are supported by reasons that no-one can reasonably reject. How should that be interpreted? Is the possibility of contesting, the possibility of being heard enough?How should the views of the developing world and future generations be accommodated in the public participation paradigm? These are only suggestions and authors are welcome to propose other topics related to the theme of this special issue. Guidelines Manuscripts should be submitted by December 1st 2016 to the following address: [email protected] Format Papers should be between 6000 and 12000 words. The paper should be anonymised and suitable for blind refereeing. Detailed instructions to authors are available at this address: http://www.lecre.umontreal.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/consignes-aux-auteurs-2014_mise-en-page-1.pdf If you have any question, please contact Xavier Landes ([email protected]). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
