Communicating through vulnerability: knowledge politics, inclusion and responsiveness in responsible research and innovation (RRI)

Di Giulio, Gabriela, Groves, Christopher ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5873-1119, Monteiro, Marko and Taddei, Renzo 2016. Communicating through vulnerability: knowledge politics, inclusion and responsiveness in responsible research and innovation (RRI). Journal of Responsible Innovation 3 (2) , pp. 92-109. 10.1080/23299460.2016.1166036

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Abstract

Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has affirmed the value of ‘inclusion’ and ‘responsiveness’ as institutional virtues necessary to ensure that reflexivity towards the social priorities behind innovation processes is made possible. It is argued that this affirmation links RRI to knowledge politics in other domains (e.g. environmental justice, the politics of development). It is suggested that lessons regarding inclusion and responsiveness can be drawn from these domains, focusing on the ways in which marginalised perspectives on need and vulnerability, once articulated, can help reconstitute the public sphere in which social priorities are defined. Three case studies are used to explore how entanglements of needs, vulnerabilities, identity and agency are vital to understanding the impacts of innovation and change more generally. It is argued that social science methodologies sensitized to such entanglements are necessary to help constitute a space of inclusion and responsiveness characterised, not by assumptions about idealised rational forms of deliberation, but by styles of communication that recognise vulnerability

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Uncontrolled Keywords:	atatchment, knowledge politics, participation, responsible research and innovation, vulnerability
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis
ISSN:	2329-9460
Funders:	Economic and Social Research Council, National Science Foundation, FAPESP
Date of Acceptance:	11 March 2016
Last Modified:	01 Nov 2022 09:28
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/88030

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