Responsible innovation goes south: critique, othering, and a commitment to care

Pandey, P (2024) Responsible innovation goes south: critique, othering, and a commitment to care. In: Journal of Responsible Innovation, 11 (1).

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Abstract

This paper employs critique as othering to engage with mainstream renderings of Responsible Innovation (R(R)I) in a non-western setting. To re-image science-society relationships, initial framings of R(R)I argued for distancing from corrosive critiques of S&T and embracing democratic engagement. However, RIs fixation on Europe as its �Centre' led to �othering' and dis-engagement in the Indian context. Consequently, the critique of R(R)I by Indian actors resulted in re-framing it as �business-as-usual.� I argue that rather than distancing from critique of S&T, R(R)I must revisit and deepen its commitments to care. A care-based approach demands that we continuously pay attention to the absent, neglected, and marginalized concerns without being over-invested in origins, naming, and institutionalization. The auto-ethnographical account demonstrates that embodying a critical edge (due to specific locations, entanglements, and attachments of the researcher) could generate interest, relationality, and care for neglected concerns rather than creating distance and othering. © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Journal of Responsible Innovation
Publisher:	Routledge
Additional Information:	The copyright for this article belongs to Routledge.
Department/Centre:	Division of Biological Sciences > Molecular Reproduction, Development & Genetics
Date Deposited:	04 Mar 2024 07:05
Last Modified:	04 Mar 2024 07:05
URI:	https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/84191

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