Science and the politics of openness

The book critically questions the assumption that making science more open and public could solve various issues around scientific credibility, trust, and legitimacy. Chapters in this book explore the risks and benefits of this perspective with relation to transparency, responsibility, experts and faith.

Introduction

1 Transparency - Benjamin Worthy

2 Open access: the beast that no-one could - or should - control? - Stephen Curry

3 Assuaging fears of monstrousness: UK and Swiss initiatives to open up animal laboratory research - Carmen M. McLeod

4 What counts as evidence in adjudicating asylum claims? Locating the monsters in the machine: an investigation of faith-based claims - Roda Madziva and Vivien Lowndes

5 Responsibility - Barbara Prainsack and Sabina Leonelli

6 Leviathan and the hybrid network: Future Earth, co-production and the experimental life of a global institution - Eleanor Hadley Kershaw

7 'Opening up' energy transitions research for development - Alison Mohr

8 The monstrous regiment versus Monsters Inc.: competing imaginaries of science and social order in responsible (research and) innovation - Stevienna de Saille and Paul Martin

9 Expertise - Mark B. Brown

10 Disentangling risk assessment: new roles for experts and publics - Sarah Hartley and Adam Kokotovich

11 Monstrous materialities: ash dieback and plant biosecurity in Britain - Judith Tsouvalis

12 An Inconvenient Truth: a social representation of scientific expertise - Warren Pearce and Brigitte Nerlich

13 Science matters and the public interest: the role of minority engagement - Sujatha Raman, Pru Hobson-West, Mimi E. Lam and Kate Millar

14 Faith - Chris Toumey

15 Re-examining 'creationist' monsters in the uncharted waters of social studies of science and religion - Fern Elsdon-Baker

16 Playing God: religious influences on the depictions of science in mainstream movies - David A. Kirby and Amy C. Chambers

17 Afterword: monstrous markets: neo-liberalism, populism and the demise of the public university - John Holmwood and Jan Balon

18 Epilogue: publics, hybrids, transparency, monsters and the changing landscape around science - Stephen Turner

Index