 The governance of nanotechnology in the Brazilian context: Entangling approachesPaulo F.C. Fonseca and Tiago Santos Pereira Technology in Society, 2014, vol. 37, issue C, 16-27 Abstract: The present article discusses the governance of nanotechnology in the Brazilian context. By firstly identifying what we term as the European model of governance we conclude that the Brazilian policy and research environment of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology does not similarly emphasise Anticipatory Governance processes, based on anticipating future scenarios of controversies and risks and broadening the participation in the upstream phase of development. Instead, there has been a predominant concern on the promotion of competiveness and a lack of debate of environmental, health and safety issues. However, we identify the Social Technology approach as a potentially distinct mode of governance in the Brazilian context. Although it has not hitherto been applied to the local or global nanotechnology governance practices, it shares many of the tenets of the Anticipatory Governance approach. We conclude with an entanglement of both approaches and propose the concept of Social Nanotechnologies, which we suggest to be a feasible research agenda for the governance of emerging technologies in semi-peripheral contexts such as Brazil. Keywords: Nanotechnology; Brazil; Anticipatory Governance; Social Technology (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:teinso:v:37:y:2014:i:c:p:16-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2013.07.003 Access Statistics for this article Technology in Society is currently edited by Charla Griffy-Brown More articles in Technology in Society from Elsevier |
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