LamprouMemo5(memo1revised)

Title: Nanotechnology Standards [A New Scientific Language]: A comparative study between EU and US Keywords: Public Spheres, policy making cultures, public participation, neoliberalism, politics, power structures, globalization, scientific language, harmonization TOPICAL AREA? || DATA SETS? || SOCIAL THEORETICAL QUESTIONS? || RESEARCH QUESTIONS? || WHY NOW? || HOW PREPARED? || BIAS? || FIELDS OF  WORK? || FUNDERS || Study two policy making cultures (EU & US) with a focus on: the open spaces created by governments and not-for profit organizations to discuss propose and develop Nanotechnology Standards Comparative study between EU and USA. || National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) ANSI Standards development panel European Commission Nanotechnology Policy European Commission DG Health and Consumer Protection / Annual Nanotechnology Safety for Success Dialogue Workshops Discourse Analysis of Documents from ANSIs proceedings & NNI available on the official webpage. Discourse Analysis of Documents from European Commission DG Health and Consumer Protection Workshop & European Commission Nanotechnology Policy Participant Observation at both the panel and the workshop. Interviews with participants/stakeholders and employees in all sets || How do neoliberal ideas influence the development of public spheres? How those new public spheres work? Who can participate and who has the power? How processes of policy making are discussed and developed in those public spheres? How do policies in different countries develop? What drives them? How globalization influences harmonization processes? || How does the ascription of legitimate power in private bodies like ANSI affect the decisions concerning standards, policy, and scientific knowledge production? How this is different in EU where the same decisions are mainly made by public authorities? Who can participate in those processes? And where is the excess of power located in those same processes? What kind of standards/policies are going to be proposed? How does that affect the way that the scientific knowledge is being produced and used? What do the policies procedures show about the politics, democracy and participation, and the power structures in different countries? How through policy making different countries establish their global power? || Nanotechnology has shown great development but standards have not yet been developed. Fears for environmental and health hazards from the use of nanotech products The creation of new kinds of public spheres by governments and various private organizations. Globalization and free market à result to the need for harmonization practices among EU and among EU & US || I own a bachelors and a master’s degree in chemistry. The last 6 months I have conducted research on the organizations connected to nanotechnology standards (through the internet). I am an International student and because I am an EU citizen it is easy to conduct research in Europe. The past one and a half years I am a graduate student at the STS department RPI and I have taken three courses in social theory. || I am a women middle class European left by birth so I believe that those public spheres are an illusion and a way for the ruling class to maintain their power. Coming from a position of less power my standpoint is driven by the belief that participation has to offer nothing when different approaches aren’t been heard or taken under consideration. || Sociology of Science, Technology, and Policymaking Center for Nanotechnology in Society and Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes (Arizona State University & University of California, Santa Barbara) Sociology with a focus in: Environmental Policymaking; Risk and Uncertainty Studies; Department of Public Affairs and Environmental Studies ([|La Follette School of Public Affairs]) Sociology with a focus in Standards Development and policymaking (Institute for Food and Agricultural Standards at Michigan State University ) || NSF Division of Social and Economic Sciences Science Technology and Society SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowships HASS ||