Dissertation Research Improvement Grants: Dissertation Research: Dynamics of Discourse about Abribiotechnology: Bt cotton in India

论文研究改进补助金：论文研究：Abribiotechnology 的话语动态：印度的 Bt 棉花

• 批准号: 0135563
• 负责人: Craig Harris
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-06-01 至 2004-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0135563&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Improvement; Grants; Dynamics

The central theme of this dissertation project is to examine how democratic decision-making about science and technology occurs in a developing society where civil society is relatively well developed. Moreover, this study explores how ethics and values are brought into decisions concerning science and technology in a society which is trying to find ways to meet basic human needs of its population through development. The introduction of Bt cotton in India has been the source of ongoing controversy since the late 1990s. This controversy and the discourse surrounding issues of Bt cotton in India makes it possible to ask what are the processes of arriving at social understandings and collective decisions about newly available science-based agricultural technologies. How do ethics and values enter into the controversy surrounding agribiotechnology? How are the efforts of actors facilitated by using science or inhibited from participation in decision-making processes by not using science? In a democratic developing society, how do science and non-scientific considerations (ethics, beliefs, needs and preferences) play out in decision-making processes? Funds for this project support the collection of data through three methods: semi-structured and structured interviews, participant observation, and content analysis to analyze how science, ethics and values are used in discourse concerning agribiotechnology.

本论文项目的中心主题是研究在公民社会相对发达的发展中社会中，科学技术的民主决策是如何发生的。此外，本研究探讨了在一个试图通过发展找到满足其人口基本人类需求的方法的社会中，伦理和价值观如何被纳入有关科学和技术的决策。自上世纪90年代末以来，在印度引进Bt棉花一直是争议的根源。这种争议和围绕印度Bt棉花问题的讨论使得人们有可能问，关于新的基于科学的农业技术，社会理解和集体决策的过程是什么。伦理和价值观如何进入围绕农业生物技术的争论？如何利用科学促进行为者的努力，或如何不利用科学阻碍行为者参与决策过程？在一个民主发展的社会中，科学和非科学的考虑因素（伦理、信仰、需求和偏好）如何在决策过程中发挥作用？本项目资金支持通过三种方法收集数据：半结构化和结构化访谈、参与者观察和内容分析，以分析科学、伦理和价值观如何在农业生物技术的话语中使用。