Governing dual-use knowledge: From the politics of responsible science to the ethicalization of security

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F16%3A10325765" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/16:10325765 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/26482789:_____/16:N0000103

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Governing dual-use knowledge: From the politics of responsible science to the ethicalization of security

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Governing dual-use knowledge: From the politics of responsible science to the ethicalization of security

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

AD - Politologie a politické vědy

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

—

Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2016

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Security Dialogue

ISSN

0967-0106

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

47

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

NO - Norské království

Počet stran výsledku

19

Strana od-do

310-328

Kód UT WoS článku

000382443800004

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-84982892968