Deploying The Consensus Conference in New Zealand: Democracy and De-problematization  

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Goven, Joanna

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Public Understanding of Science vol. 12 no. 4 (Okt. 2003), page 423-440.
Fulltext: 423PUS124.pdf (92.57KB)

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The turn toward public participation in technology assessment points to a link between democratization and the problematization of dominant assumptions, explanations, and justifications. Here, I evaluate whether the use of the consensus conference in New Zealand facilitated such problematization. After a brief outline of the Danish model, I discuss the ways in which the New Zealand conference differed from that model and demonstrate how strategies for managing the resulting bias undermined the possibility of problematization. Further, I argue that participants’ attempts to problematize were subsumed into the dominant scientific and economic rationalities through processes I call assimilation, resignation, and externalization. I argue that the effect of the conference process was to assimilate some concerns into the deficit model, produce a sense of resignation to the “inevitable” with regard to other concerns, and externalize those remaining onto the indigenous population.

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