Valkenburg, G and Mamidipudi, A and Pandey, P and Bijker, WE (2020) Responsible innovation as empowering ways of knowing. In: Journal of Responsible Innovation, 7 (1). pp. 6-25.
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Abstract
In pursuit of responsible research and innovation (RRI), emphasis has been on various forms of inclusion in the governance of science, technology and innovation. Given that much of the ideas on inclusion in fact refer to discursive inclusion, it is surprising that little attention has hitherto been paid to what seems foundational to any discursive space: ontologies (theories of being) and epistemologies (theories of knowing), and notably how these relate to inclusion and exclusion. By means of an action-research case study on responsible innovation on biogasification in rural India, we show that one important mechanism of exclusion exists in a dispossession of epistemological agency and the rendering of ontologies as anomalous, even if this is not directly visible as social exclusion. We argue that RRI should adopt as one of its central values the epistemological empowerment of relevant groups.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Journal of Responsible Innovation |
| Publisher: | Routledge |
| Additional Information: | The copyright for this article belongs to the Authors. |
| Keywords: | biogas; Epistemological empowerment; epistemology; inclusive deliberation; rice straw |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Biological Sciences > Centre for Ecological Sciences Division of Electrical Sciences > Computer Science & Automation |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Jan 2023 06:09 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Jan 2023 06:09 |
| URI: | https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/79244 |
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