ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND GENOMICS: Acting on the Futures of Environmental Health

摘要

Technoscientific innovations may create multiple possible futures, only some of which are produced and/or sustained. Increasingly, sociological studies of technoscience endeavour to render visible the processes through which specific futures are envisioned and enacted (Brown et al., 2000; van Lente and Rip, 1998). Such an intellectual quest demarcates a vast terrain, as evident in Adam's admonition that scholars of technoscience must explain how the future is created, contested, colonised and consumed; how it is materialised, managed and 'mastered'; how opportunities are created for some at the expense of others; how uncertainties, indeterminacies, and contingencies are handled and how the profit potential of innovative technologies with unknowable side effects is played off against caution and precaution (2000, pp. xii-xiii).