Governing dual-use knowledge: From the politics of responsible science to the ethicalization of security
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/26482789:_____/16:N0000103
Result on the web
<a href="http://sdi.sagepub.com/content/47/4/310.abstract" target="_blank" >http://sdi.sagepub.com/content/47/4/310.abstract</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0967010616658848" target="_blank" >10.1177/0967010616658848</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Governing dual-use knowledge: From the politics of responsible science to the ethicalization of security
Original language description
Fears of malicious non-state actors and potentially dangerous research have given rise to new efforts to secure science against misuse. With the rapid advancements of science, what receives attention in security politics is how to oversee not only material and technology but also knowledge. This article explores the emerging security governance of knowledgeable practices in life sciences and critically reflects on its possible implications. The article first contextualizes the current understanding of the dual-use dilemma in life sciences in prior discourse on science-security relations and argues that security concerns have converged with ethical dilemmas related to the governing of science. Drawing on critical theory, security studies and science studies, it then conceptualizes dual use as a problem of organizing circulations and suggests that policing scientific knowledge through the establishment of a 'culture of responsibility' can be understood as a part of broader shifts towards the subjectification of knowledge. Using examples from life sciences, the article analyses how practices of knowledge production and circulation are adjusted to the logic of security. The article concludes that the converging political rationalities and governmental techniques of responsible science and security risk management, understood as an 'ethicalization' of security, affect the politicization of security expertise, prospects of resistance and the democratic accountability of science.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AD - Political sciences
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Security Dialogue
ISSN
0967-0106
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
47
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
NO - NORWAY
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
310-328
UT code for WoS article
000382443800004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-84982892968