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Democratic Transactions in the Life Sciences
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Abstract This article presents an artistic and political experiment as an effort to advance democratic transactions in the life sciences. Artists built a ‘gender democratic labyrinth’ in Maastricht, in which scientists, women’s groups, people in general, artists, ... view more
This article presents an artistic and political experiment as an effort to advance democratic transactions in the life sciences. Artists built a ‘gender democratic labyrinth’ in Maastricht, in which scientists, women’s groups, people in general, artists, philosophers, politicians, journalists, clinical geneticists and many others interacted and negotiated on the creation of human embryos for medical-scientific research (a subject kept open in the Dutch Embryo Law of September 2002 to decide within a few years). By taking a gender perspective on the process of democratizing science, we aimed to create a space in which alterity and difference are constitutive elements in the public exchanges on science and technology. The idea to build a labyrinth was theoretically based on the notion of agonistic democracy - in which pluralism is the result of contestations and divisions - and on a notion of science and technology as being contextualized and socialized.... view less
Keywords
gender
Free Keywords
art; citizenship; democracy; democratic spaces; embodied politics; labyrinth; life sciences;
Document language
English
Publication Year
2005
Page/Pages
p. 9-29
Journal
European Journal of Women's Studies, 12 (2005) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506805048852
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)