Dissertation Research: French Agricultural Biotechnology: Divergent Framings of Risk Among Scientists, Farmers and Consumers

论文研究：法国农业生物技术：科学家、农民和消费者之间不同的风险框架

• 批准号: 9811956
• 负责人: Arturo Escobar
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-08-01 至 1999-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9811956&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; French; Agricultural; Biotechnology

This dissertation project examines the risk framing practices of experts and non-experts by examining the symbolic and institutional cultures in which actors translate perceptions of risk into formal risk-related policy. Conceiving of biotechnological agriculture as a sociotechnical system, the project will compare the development of the process of risk assessment in an expert regulatory apparatus with the emerging risk perception practices of non-experts through three site-specific case studies. The study seeks to understand how French scientists, farmers, and consumers perceive and assess risk, investigating the extent to which divergent framings of risk within and between groups reflect underlying cultural concerns. Arguing that risk construction is both constrained and shaped by complex cultural processes, this dissertation problematizes and compares the risk framing process of experts and non-experts to illustrate the knowledge flows and organizational structure of three key institutions engaged in framing the popular debate concerning the regulation of genetically modified crops in France. The general approach will be to trace the path of one particular transgenic plant variety as it moves from its introduction into French regulatory apparatuses into the wider society as a whole. Utilizing ethnographic methods, critical reading strategies of archival and current print media, and comparative analysis, the study will investigate the processes by which knowledge regarding risk in generated and flows within and between expert and non-expert institutions. Such research will enable an examination into the cultural constraints that shape the French discussion of biotechnological risk.

本学位论文项目通过研究象征性和制度性文化，研究专家和非专家的风险框架实践，在这种文化中，行为者将风险感知转化为正式的风险相关政策。 该项目将把生物技术农业视为一种社会技术系统，通过三个具体地点的案例研究，将专家管理机构的风险评估过程的发展与非专家的新出现的风险认知做法进行比较。 该研究旨在了解法国科学家，农民和消费者如何感知和评估风险，调查群体内部和群体之间不同的风险框架在多大程度上反映了潜在的文化问题。 认为风险建设是受复杂的文化过程的制约和塑造，本文问题化和比较的风险框架的过程中，专家和非专家，以说明知识流和组织结构的三个关键机构参与制定流行的辩论有关的转基因作物在法国的监管。一般的方法是追踪一种特定的转基因植物品种的路径，因为它从引入法国监管机构到整个更广泛的社会。 利用民族志的方法，关键的阅读战略的档案和当前的印刷媒体，并进行比较分析，研究将调查的过程中产生的风险知识，并在专家和非专家机构之间的流动。 这样的研究将使审查的文化制约因素，形成法国的生物技术风险的讨论。