Lamprou+Memo+1

TOPICAL AREA? || DATA SETS? || SOCIAL THEORETICAL QUESTIONS? || WHY NOW? || HOW PREPARED? || BIAS? || FIELDS OF  WORK? || FUNDERS  || Open spaces created by governments and not-for profit organizations to discuss propose and develop Nanotechnology Standards Comparative study between EU and USA? || ANSI Standards development panel European Commission DG Health and Consumer Protection / Annual Nanotechnology Safety for Success Dialogue Workshops Discourse Analysis (Documents) Participant Observation Interviews || 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? || 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. || 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. I need more work on my social theory side although. || I am left by birth so I believe that those public spheres are an illusion and a way for the ruling class to maintain their power. Participation has to offer nothing when different approaches aren’t been heard or taken under consideration. || Experts and lay knowledge studies Public participation in Policy Making Risk and Uncertainty Studies Environmental Policy Making Standards Development || NSF SSRC HASS || Possible theories that Nanotechnology Standards are going to follow. || ANSI Standards development panel Discourse Analysis (Documents) Participant Observation Interviews || How are nanotechnology standards going to be developed? By whom? What standards’ theories are they going to follow? How will the neoliberal economy and deregulation practices affect the standardization framework? || Nanotechnology has shown great development but standards have not yet been developed. Fears for environmental and health hazards from the use of nanotech products Neoliberal influence to the standards processes/ privatization of standards || I own a bachelors and a master’s degree in chemistry. The last 6 months I have conducted research on organizations connected to nanotechnology standards (through the internet). I need more work on the social theories side. || Since I am left in beliefs I think that the privatization of standards which is going to benefit the industry and the open economy is going to be the hegemonic theory that nanotechnology standards are going to follow. || Risk and Uncertainty Studies Environmental Policy Making Standards Development || NSF SSRC HASS || Green Chemistry Comparative study between EU and USA? || Green Chemistry Organizations and Programs. Universities that offer various undergraduate and graduate programs in Green Chemistry Discourse Analysis Participant Observation Interviews || Why is Green Chemistry successful in some specific frameworks and not in others? || There is a shift towards more sustainable scientific practices. Green Chemistry although promises a sustainable future has difficulties in flourishing among other scientific fields and has a few advocates. || I own a bachelors and a master’s degree in chemistry And in general I have worked on Green Chemistry my first year in RPI. My European citizenship will help me work in Europe. || I think that Green Chemistry has no future. || Sustainable Development Studies Environmental Studies Alternative Design || NSF SSRC HASS || The birth of Green Chemistry: A Social Movement’s result? A result of ecological modernization procedures? Or a combination of the two? || Green Chemistry Organizations and Programs. Scientists that conduct research on Green Chemistry Interviews Discourse analysis of documents from organizations and journals as well as of books and documents on the history of Chemistry. A possible site is The Chemical Heritage Foundation. || How was the field of green chemistry born? How do scientific fields in which traditional practices and products pollute the environment change to become more environmental? How does a discipline like Chemistry, the discipline primarily responsible for the environmental pollution, change and open itself up to develop a more environmental field? What is the relation, if any, between green chemistry and the environmental movement? Are those two different events connected? And if they are, how are they related to each other? Can green chemistry be considered as the transformation of a social movement into scientific discourse, and green chemistry as opening up new roles for mainstream chemists? What is the relation, if any, between green chemistry and the ecological modernization theory? Is Green Chemistry the ecological restructuring of the mainstream chemical practices? Can both ecological modernization theory and the environmental movement be connected and responsible for the birth of the field of green chemistry? || With the turn to sustainable practices it is interesting to find out what initiates those shifts. Maybe this will give an answer to the fact that green chemistry is not so popular || I own a bachelors and a master’s degree in chemistry And in general I have worked on Green Chemistry my first year in RPI || I think that Green Chemistry fits in the model of Ecological modernization theory. || Social Movement Studies Ecological Modernization Studies Sustainable Development Studies Environmental Studies Alternative Design || NSF SSRC HASS ||