EASST 010 – PRACTICING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, PERFORMING THE SOCIAL

TRENTO, SEPTEMBER 2ND - 4TH 2010

TRACK 30. THE NEW POLITICS OF RISK: THE PERFORMING

OF REGULATION IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Track programme

Session Authors and papers (in presentation order)

Session #1

Pierre-Benoit Joly, INRA and IFRIS.
Risk governance Uncertainty and standards of proof: Comparative and
(Thursday morning) transnational analysis of risk governance
Chair: David
John Abraham and Courtney Davis, University of Sussex.
Demortain Comparative analysis of risk management strategies in EU and
US pharmaceutical regulation (1995-2010)

Wouter Boon, University of Utrecht.
Governing ex-post drug risk surveillance: linking different
epistemic cultures

Mikko Jauho, Finland National Consumer Research Centre.
Doing health risks: cardiovascular risk assessment and the politics
of personal responsibility

Erika Mansnerus, University of Cambridge.
Governance of public health risks through vaccinations

Session #2
Political heuristics and
Jim Dratwa, European Commission and Facultés universitaires
epistemologies Saint-Louis.
In what (other) world do we want to live together? Proof,
(Thursday afternoon) precaution, participation: From political epistemologies to
Chair: Erika experimentations of the State.
Mansnerus
David Demortain, London School of Economics.
The genericness of risk: exploring the trans-domain applications
of risk assessment

Brian McGillivray, University of Cambridge.
Heuristics and precautionary risk regulation

Hauke Riesch & David Reiner, University of Cambridge.
Different levels of uncertainty in Carbon Capture and Storage
technologies
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Session #3
Risk and risk
Marc Barbier & Francois Dedieu, INRA and IFRIS.
assessment in social “Noisy summer”: the Sciences of Pesticides Risk Assessment and
context the fragmentation of objectivity

Amy Donovan, University of Cambridge.
(Friday morning) Expertise in crisis: The role of volcanologists in framing policy
Chair: David advice on Montserrat
Demortain
Anders Kristian Munk, Technical University of Denmark.
A way of doing other things: flood risk as event

Costanza Rampini, University of California.
Climate Change Mitigation in the Himalayas: IPCC Expertise and
Science Policy

Lucia Fernandes, University of Coimbra.
Toxic culture: when, how, why and where we are going?

Session #4
Infrastructures of risk

Richard Milne, University of Sheffield.
Calculating the Consumer: Ignorance and Expiration in Food Risk
(Friday afternoon) Management
Chair: Brian
Antti Silvast, University of Helsinki.
MacGillivray Infrastructure Technologies and Risk: The Case of Electricity
Supply and Energy Market Control Rooms

Simon Haikola, Linköping University.
Environmental monitoring as simulacra

Renata Motta, Freie Universität Berlin.
Different logics, different timing: the struggles between politics,
economy and science in the risk regulation of GMOs.

Session #5

Adam Hedgecoe, Cardiff University.
Risk ethics
Research Ethics Committees in the regulation of risk in biomedical
(Saturday morning) research
Chair: Brian
Sabine Roeser, Delft University of Technology. Emotions, ethics
MacGillivray and risk politics

Isabel Margarida Mendes, Ana Raquel Matos & Susana Costa,
Nursing School of Coimbra.
Dangerous bodies, bodies in danger or questioning how
(de)humanized birth can be: An analysis of the relation between
expert and lay knowledge in Portuguese birth politics

Raquel Rego, Ana Delicado, Cristina Conceição, Cristiana Bastos
& Inês Pereira, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa.
Evaluating the effectiveness of the ethical role of scientific
societies: Preliminary data on a current empirical research