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William J. Kinsella Associate Professor of Communication Program DirectorScience, Technology & Society North Carolina State University wjkinsel@ncsu.edu
Annual conference, Society for Social Studies of Science Arlington, VA, 31 October 2009 Panel session: The Path-finding process for Nuclear Waste Disposal
Background
Joined panel late in the processoriginal paper had different scope Revised paper to fit panel more closely: new focus on nuclear waste disposal and theory and practice of public-expert engagement Previous and related research: -- Knowledge production in nuclear fusion community (1993-1997) -- USDOE Hanford site (Hanford Advisory Board 2000-2006; Public Involvement & Communication Committee Vice-Chair) -- Projects on fusion research, nuclear discourse, expert-public-policy engagement, USDOE nuclear complex, climate change discourse, commercial nuclear power (see reference list for examples) -- Fulbright project, University of Stuttgart, Spring 2010: Nuclear Energy in Germany -- Global political economy of nuclear energy
Kinsella, W.J. (2009). Nuclear safety, risk analysis, and the limits of calculability. Annual conference, Society for Social Studies of Science (Arlington, VA, 31 October). 2
Kinsella, W.J. (2009). Nuclear safety, risk analysis, and the limits of calculability. Annual conference, Society for Social Studies of Science (Arlington, VA, 31 October).
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Contemptuous view of the public (Katz & Miller, 1996) Counterpublics theory: No unitary public; publics organize in response or opposition (cf. Asen & Brouwer) Deficit model of lay knowledge (Wynne) Contempt & deficit models can operate in both directions Accidental rhetoric (Farrell & Goodnight) Discursive containment (Kinsella, 2001) Role of local knowledge and public expertise (Fischer, 2000; Kinsella, 2004; Kinsella & Mullen, 2007) Critiques of Decide, Announce, Defend (DAD) model
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References (I)
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References (II)
Habermas, J. (1971). Knowledge and human interests. Boston: Beacon. Heidegger, M. (1996). Being and time (trans. J. Stambaugh). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. Heidegger, M. (1977). The age of the world picture. In M. Heidegger (trans. W. Lovitt), The question concerning technology and other essays (pp. 115-154). New York: Harper & Row. Katz, S. B., & Miller, C. R. (1996). The low-level radioactive waste-siting controversy in North Carolina: Toward a rhetorical model of risk communication. In C. G. Herndl & S. C. Brown (Eds.), Green culture: Environmental rhetoric in contemporary America (pp. 111-139). Kinsella, W. J. (1999). Discourse, power, and knowledge in the management of big science: The production of consensus in a nuclear fusion research laboratory. Management Communication Quarterly, 13(2), 171-208. Kinsella, W. J. (2001). Nuclear boundaries: Material and discursive containment at the Hanford nuclear reservation. Science as Culture, 10(2), 163-194. Kinsella, W. J. (2004). Public expertise: A foundation for citizen participation in energy and environmental decisions. In S. P. Depoe, J. W. Delicath, & M. A. Elsenbeer (Eds.), Communication and public participation in environmental decision making (pp. 83-95). Albany, NY: SUNY Press. Kinsella, W. J. (2005). One hundred years of nuclear discourse: Four master themes and their implications for environmental communication. Environmental Communication Yearbook, vol. 2, 49-72. Kinsella, W. J. (2005). Rhetoric, action, and agency in institutionalized science and technology. Technical Communication Quarterly, 14(3), 303-310. Kinsella, W. J. (2007). Heidegger and being at the Hanford reservation: Standing reserve, enframing, and environmental communication theory. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 1(2), 194-217.
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References (III)
Kinsella, W. J., & Mullen, J. (2007, 2008). Becoming Hanford downwinders: Producing community and challenging discursive containment. In Taylor, B. C., Kinsella, W. J., Depoe, S. P., & Metzler, M. S. (Eds.), Nuclear legacies: Communication, controversy, and the U.S. nuclear weapons complex (pp. 73-107). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. Luhmann, N. (1990). Technology, environment, and social risk: A systems perspective. Industrial Crisis Quarterly, 4, 223-231. Luhmann, N. (1979). Trust and power: Two works (Ed. T Burns & G. Poggi; Trans. H. Davis, J. Raffan, & K. Rooney). New York: Wiley. Luhmann, N. (1989). Ecological communication (trans. J. Bednarz). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Luhmann, N. (1993). Risk: A sociological theory (trans. R. Barrett). New York: de Gruyter. Pearce, W.B., & Littlejohn, S. (1997). Moral conflict: When social worlds collide. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Taylor, B. C., Kinsella, W. J., Depoe, S. P., & Metzler, M. S. (Eds.) (2007, 2008). Nuclear legacies: Communication, controversy, and the U.S. nuclear weapons complex. Lanham, MD: Lexington. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (2004). Effective risk communication: Guidelines for external risk communication. NUREG/BR-0308, available at: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/brochures/br0308/ Wynne, B. (1991). Knowledges in context. Science, Technology, and Human Values, 16(1), 111-121. Wynne, B. (1992). Risk and social learning: Reification to engagement. In S. Krimsky & D. Golding (Eds.), Social theories of risk (pp. 275-297). Westport, CT: Praeger. Wynne, B. (1996). May the sheep safely graze? A reflexive view of the expert-lay knowledge divide. In S. Lash, B. Szerzynski, & B. Wynne (Eds.), Risk, environment, and modernity: Toward a new ecology (pp. 4580). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
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