Refereed Contributions (29)

  • Fuchs, D., Bauer, A., & Bogner, A. (2023). “That was not the discussion we wanted to have”: Engagement of civil society organizations with synthetic biology. Public Understanding Of Science, 33, 15. doi:10.1177/09636625231164940
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  • Bogner, A. (2022). What can science do in the face of pandemics?. Culture, Practice &Amp; Europeanization, 7, 122-135. doi:10.5771/2566-7742-2022-1-122
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  • Bauer, A., Bogner, A., & Fuchs, D. (2021). Rethinking societal engagement under the heading of Responsible Research and Innovation: (novel) requirements and challenges. Journal Of Responsible Innovation, 8 (1), 1-22. doi:10.1080/23299460.2021.1909812
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  • Bogner, A. (2021). Der diskrete Charme der Gesellschaftsdiagnose. Wesen und Wirkung eines soziologischen Genres. Soziale Welt, 3-26. Retrieved from https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0038-6073-2021-1-3/der-diskrete-charme-der-gesellschaftsdiagnose-wesen-und-wirkung-eines-soziologischen-genres-jahrgang-72-2021-heft-1?page=1
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  • Bogner, A., & Menz, W. (2021). Wissen und Werte im Widerstreit. Zum Verhältnis von Expertise und Politik in der Corona-Krise. Leviathan, 111-132. Retrieved from https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0340-0425-2021-1-111/wissen-und-werte-im-widerstreit-zum-verhaeltnis-von-expertise-und-politik-in-der-corona-krise-jahrgang-49-2021-heft-1?page=1
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  • Bauer, A., & Bogner, A. (2020). Let's (not) talk about synthetic biology: Framing an emerging technology in public and stakeholder dialogues. Public Understanding Of Science, 29, 492-507. doi:10.1177/0963662520907255
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  • Bogner, A., & Torgersen, H. (2018). Precaution, Responsible Innovation and Beyond – In Search of a Sustainable Agricultural Biotechnological Policy. Frontiers In Plant Science, 9. Retrieved from https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2018.01884/full
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  • Bauer, A., Bogner, A., Capari, L., Fuchs, D., Gudowsky, N., Kastenhofer, K., Ornetzeder, M., Peissl, W., & Sinozic, T. (2016). Schlaue Gedanken zu smarter Technik, Konferenzbericht von der TA16. Tatup - Zeitschrift Für Technikfolgenabschätzung In Theorie Und Praxis, 25, 79-86. doi:10.14512/tatup.25.2.91
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  • Bogner, A., & Torgersen, H. (2015). Different ways of problematising biotechnology – and what it means for technology governance. Public Understanding Of Science, 24, 516-532; first published (online) on June 24, 2014. doi:10.1177/0963662514539074
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    To understand controversies over technologies better, we propose the concept of ‘problematisation’. Drawing on Foucault’s idea of problematisation and on the concept of frames in media research, we identify characteristic forms of problematising biotechnology in pertaining controversies, typically emphasising ethical, risk or economic aspects. They provide a common basis for disputes and allow participants to argue effectively. The different forms are important for how controversies are negotiated, which experts get involved, what role public engagement plays and how political decisions are legitimised – in short, for technology governance. We develop a heuristic for analysing the link between forms of problematisation and different options for technology governance. Applied to synthetic biology, we discuss different problematisations of this technology and the implications for governance.

  • Bogner, A. (2014). Emergierende Technologien und projektförmige Partizipation. Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, 27, 82-92. doi:10.1515/fjsb-2014-0410
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  • Bogner, A., & Torgersen, H. (2014). Emerging Technologies and the Interpretative Turn in Technology Assessment. Teorija In Praksa, 51, 726-741. Retrieved from http://www.fdv.uni-lj.si/docs/default-source/tip/tip_05_2014_bogner_idr.pdf?sfvrsn=2
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  • Bogner, A. (2014). Umwerben als Aushandlungslogik in Wertkonflikten. Österreichische Zeitschrift Für Politikwissenschaft, 43, 121-140. Retrieved from https://webapp.uibk.ac.at/ojs/index.php/OEZP/article/download/1541/1226
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  • Bogner, A. (2012). The Paradox of Participation Experiments. Science, Technology &Amp; Human Values, 37, 506-527. doi:10.1177/0162243911430398
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    An ongoing trend in technology policy has been to advocate participation. However, the author claims that lay citizens’ participation typically materializes in the form of a laboratory experiment at present. That is, lay participation as currently organized by professional participation experts under controlled conditions rarely is linked to public controversies, to the pursuit of political participation or to individual concerns. Derived from qualitative research on two citizen conferences, the author shows empirically that in practice, this laboratory participation leads to paradoxical effects: successfully carrying out the experiment results in a systematic disappointment of the hope for gains in rationality typically attached to lay participation. Finally, the author relates this result to sociological debates about new modes of knowledge production. Under such a perspective, the author sees a paradoxical development: while society at large is becoming a laboratory in which knowledge is produced, participation practice is retreating from society into the lab.

  • Bogner, A., Gaube, V., & Smetschka, B. (2011). Partizipative Modellierung – Beteiligungsexperimente in der sozialökologischen Forschung. Österreichische Zeitschrift Für Soziologie, 36 (2), 74-97. Retrieved from http://www.springerlink.com/content/f55k510k7257t60n/
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    Folgt man aktuellen soziologischen Diagnosen, so lässt sich heute in verschiedenen Gesellschaftsbereichen eine Aufwertung des Partizipationsgedankens konstatieren. Im Umweltbereich kommt es dabei, so unsere These, zu einer Experimentalisierung von Partizipation. Das heißt, neben traditionelle und zuweilen protestförmige Teilhabeforderungen ökologisch bewegter BürgerInnen treten neue Beteiligungsformate, die sich oft der Initiative seitens der Wissenschaft verdanken. Solche Beteiligungsexperimente werden in der sozialökologischen Forschung genutzt, um konkrete Lösungen im Bereich nachhaltiger Entwicklung zu konzipieren und umsetzbar zu machen. Unsere empirische Analyse zeigt, dass die mit Partizipation erwarteten Rationalitätsgewinne am Ehesten in solchen Kontexten zu erwarten sind, in denen Eigeninteresse, lebensweltliche Betroffenheit und ein Spezialwissen der Beteiligten vorausgesetzt werden können.

  • Bogner, A., Kastenhofer, K., & Torgersen, H. (2010). Antizipierte Technikkontroversen als Governance-Problem. In E. Grießler & Rohracher, H. (Eds.), ÖGZ (Tran.), Genomforschung – Politik – Gesellschaft: Perspektiven auf ethische, rechtliche und soziale Aspekte der Genomforschung (Österr. Zeitschrift für Soziologie – Sonderhefte, Bd. 8) (pp. 69-98). Wiesbaden: VS. Retrieved from http://www.springerlink.com/content/v4000789630j3g23/
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  • Bogner, A. (2010). Let´s disagree! Talking Ethics in Technology Controversies. Science, Technology &Amp; Innovation Studies, 183-201. doi:10.17877/DE290R-8852
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    Many of today’s conflicts about technology are being negotiated with the help of explicit reference to ethics. My main thesis is that from the perspective of conflict theory, this appreciation of ethics means disagreement is being recognised and stabilised. In ethically framed value conflicts, no-one can – with good cause – expect a genuine agreement to be reached on the level of personal moral reasoning (apart from basic values such as those expressed in the universal declaration of human rights). It is shown that this cultivation of disagreement has considerable implications for the political management of controversies about technology.

  • Bogner, A., & Menz, W. (2010). How Politics Deals with Expert Dissent: The Case of Ethics Councils. Science, Technology &Amp; Human Values, 888-914. doi:10.1177/0162243909357913
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    Over recent years, science and technology have been reassessed increasingly in ethical terms. Particularly for life science governance, ethics has become the dominant discourse. In the course of this ‘‘ethical turn’’ national ethics councils were set up throughout Europe and in the United States to advice politics in ethically controversial issues such as stem cell research and genetic testing. Ethics experts have become subject to traditional warnings against expertocracy: they are suspected to unduly influence political decision-making. However, any reliable ethics expertise has to reflect societal disagreements in moral issues. Therefore, expert dissent is a normal feature of legitimate ethics expertise. Based on theoretical considerations we argue that in principle, expert dissent does not cause problems for political legitimacy; rather, it enhances the salience of politics: obviously decisions on ethical issues cannot be taken on the basis of expert knowledge alone. We therefore conclude that expert dissent, not consent, supports politics. Focussing on Germany and Austria, we show how politics deal with expert dissent in practice. While in Germany politics acknowledge dissent and use it to foster a fundamental political debate, Austrian politics attribute authoritative power to ethics expertise and try to construct an overall consensus. This illustrates how the drawing of boundaries between politic and expertise differs.

  • Bogner, A. (2010). Partizipation als Laborexperiment – Paradoxien der Laiendeliberation in Technikfragen. Zeitschrift Für Soziologie, 87-105. doi:10.1515/zfsoz-2010-0201
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  • Bogner, A. (2009). Ethisierung und die Marginalisierung der Ethik. Zur Mikropolitik des Wissens in Ethikräten. Soziale Welt, 119-137. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/40878640
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  • Bogner, A. (2007). Was heißt "Politisierung von Expertise"?. Österreichische Zeitschrift Für Politikwissenschaft, 319-335. doi:10.15203/ozp.921.vol36iss3
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