Responsible Research and Innovation: Konsten att (re)producera en samhällsordning
(2016) STVK02 20161Department of Political Science
- Abstract (Swedish)
- In this Bachelor thesis I examine the relationship between knowledge and power against the Zeitgeist of politicized science and depoliticized politics. I aim to uncover and problematize the understanding of legitimate knowledge production articulated in Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), the framework for research within the current European research programme.
I use Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse theory and Jasanoffs idiom of co-production to scrutinize a leaflet published by the EU-commission and analize interviews with representatives of RRI Tools, thought to implement the framework.
I argue that the new spirit of capitalism, the rise of deliberative democracy and the conception of Europe as a union in crisis constitutes the... (More) - In this Bachelor thesis I examine the relationship between knowledge and power against the Zeitgeist of politicized science and depoliticized politics. I aim to uncover and problematize the understanding of legitimate knowledge production articulated in Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), the framework for research within the current European research programme.
I use Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse theory and Jasanoffs idiom of co-production to scrutinize a leaflet published by the EU-commission and analize interviews with representatives of RRI Tools, thought to implement the framework.
I argue that the new spirit of capitalism, the rise of deliberative democracy and the conception of Europe as a union in crisis constitutes the fertile ground necessary for the blooming of the particular understanding of legitimate knowledge production expressed in RRI; characterized by utilitarianism and moral rationalism encouraging context-driven, problem-focused and interdisciplinary research.
By stressing the contextual character of rationality, and how what is percieved to be socially desirable and responsible is contingent upon the discoursive field, I argue that RRI encourage research and innovation that might limit the scope of our political imagination instead of broadening it. It might thus also be concieved as a political strategy that normalizes and legitimizes the current political system. (Less)
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- author
- Richardsson, Wallentin LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- STVK02 20161
- year
- 2016
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Forskning, Kunskapsproduktion, Responsible Research and Innovation, RRI, EU, Diskursanalys, Legitimitet, Co-production
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 8872566
- date added to LUP
- 2016-06-17 11:40:03
- date last changed
- 2016-06-17 11:40:03
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