Darrin Durant
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3731409 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Darrin Durant |
| NOMBRES | Darrin |
| APELLIDO | Durant |
| FIRMA | DURANT D |
| AFILIACIONES | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8182-3268 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Are Honest Brokers Good for Democracy
In Roger Pielke Jr.’s The Honest Broker (2007) he discusses different roles a scientist can adopt when giving advice to policymakers. The honest broker role focuses on clarifying and expanding the scope of choice for others. This role has the virtues of being sensitive to known problems with experts being partisan by stealth, dominating policy decisions by controlling knowledge input, and reducing the scope of considerations deemed relevant to de…
A new method for computational cultural cartography
Recently, computational social scientists have proposed exciting new methods for 'mapping meaning space' and analysing the structure and evolution of complex cultural constructs from large text datasets. These emerging approaches to 'cultural cartography' are based on a foundation of neural network word embeddings that represent the meaning of words, in relation to one another, as vectors in a shared high-dimensional latent space. These new metho…
Amazon’s Ring
Amazon’s Ring video doorbells allow users to easily see and talk with people in camera range over their phones, record and save camera footage to the cloud, and share videos of suspicious activity
Experts and the Will of the People
The rise of populism in the West has led to attacks on the legitimacy of scientific expertise in political decision making. This book explores the differences between populism and pluralist democracy and their relationship with science. Pluralist democracy is characterised by respect for minority choices and a system of checks and balances that prevents power being concentrated in one group, while populism treats minorities as traitorous so as to…
Remaking participation
Simulative politics
According to Ingolfur Blühdorn’s theory of post-ecologist politics, attempts to promote ecological sustainability and enact an authentic democratic politics are highly unlikely to succeed and are more a performance of seriousness than a set of authentic demands. Affluent post-industrial consumer societies can now only produce ‘simulations’ of sustainability and democracy, aiming only at reassurance. Using the case of policymaking about high-level…
Models of democracy in social studies of science
Science and Technology Studies (STS) offers contrasting normative visions of how to democratically manage the relations between experts and larger publics in contemporary liberal democracies. This lack of uniformity has not stopped advocates of participatory politics from implying that to be anything other than staunch defenders of ‘the public’ is to be illiberal and undemocratic. But if we turn to political philosophy, part of liberal democratic…
Resistance to Nuclear Waste Disposal
This article asks the question whether, in regard to controversial technical decision-making, lay public groups advance different kinds of resistance than credentialed experts. This question is explored via a case-study analysis of one of Canada's major public controversies of the past quarter century—nuclear waste disposal. Having arrived on the policy radar in 1977, nuclear waste remained an internal government/nuclear industry matter until ter…
Radwaste in Canada
Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) proposed Adaptive Phased Management (APM) as an approach for managing used nuclear fuel in November 2005 NWMO (Nuclear Waste Management Organization). 2005. Choosing a way forward: The future management of Canada’s used nuclear fuel, Toronto: NWMO. Final study [Google Scholar], and this approach was approved by government in June 2007. APM involves either disposing of or storing used nuclear f…
Responsible action and nuclear waste disposal
Accounting for expertise
This paper argues that the public understanding of science has eliminated the understanding gap between experts and the public, but erected an ontological gap in its place. Experts are conceived of as unreflexive, but lay public actors as reflexive. To provide a concrete grounding for this claim, this paper offers a conceptual analysis of Brian Wynne's work on the public understanding of science. Wynne's work intersects theorizing about late mode…
Deep Waters
Reviewed by: Deep Waters: The Ottawa River and Canada’s Nuclear Adventure Darrin Durant (bio) Deep Waters: The Ottawa River and Canada’s Nuclear Adventure. By Kim Krenz. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004. Pp. xii+168. $44.95. Deep Waters is Kim Krenz's history of Canada's nuclear development, a reflection on his active involvement in the industry from 1945 to 1980. It is not Krenz's purpose to retell stories about political, economi…
Collins on experts
Models of democracy in social studies of science
Science and Technology Studies (STS) offers contrasting normative visions of how to democratically manage the relations between experts and larger publics in contemporary liberal democracies. This lack of uniformity has not stopped advocates of participatory politics from implying that to be anything other than staunch defenders of ‘the public’ is to be illiberal and undemocratic. But if we turn to political philosophy, part of liberal democratic…
Amazon’s Ring
Amazon’s Ring video doorbells allow users to easily see and talk with people in camera range over their phones, record and save camera footage to the cloud, and share videos of suspicious activity
Simulative politics
According to Ingolfur Blühdorn’s theory of post-ecologist politics, attempts to promote ecological sustainability and enact an authentic democratic politics are highly unlikely to succeed and are more a performance of seriousness than a set of authentic demands. Affluent post-industrial consumer societies can now only produce ‘simulations’ of sustainability and democracy, aiming only at reassurance. Using the case of policymaking about high-level…
Radwaste in Canada
Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) proposed Adaptive Phased Management (APM) as an approach for managing used nuclear fuel in November 2005 NWMO (Nuclear Waste Management Organization). 2005. Choosing a way forward: The future management of Canada’s used nuclear fuel, Toronto: NWMO. Final study [Google Scholar], and this approach was approved by government in June 2007. APM involves either disposing of or storing used nuclear f…
Responsible action and nuclear waste disposal
A new method for computational cultural cartography
Recently, computational social scientists have proposed exciting new methods for 'mapping meaning space' and analysing the structure and evolution of complex cultural constructs from large text datasets. These emerging approaches to 'cultural cartography' are based on a foundation of neural network word embeddings that represent the meaning of words, in relation to one another, as vectors in a shared high-dimensional latent space. These new metho…
Deep Waters
Reviewed by: Deep Waters: The Ottawa River and Canada’s Nuclear Adventure Darrin Durant (bio) Deep Waters: The Ottawa River and Canada’s Nuclear Adventure. By Kim Krenz. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004. Pp. xii+168. $44.95. Deep Waters is Kim Krenz's history of Canada's nuclear development, a reflection on his active involvement in the industry from 1945 to 1980. It is not Krenz's purpose to retell stories about political, economi…
Accounting for expertise
This paper argues that the public understanding of science has eliminated the understanding gap between experts and the public, but erected an ontological gap in its place. Experts are conceived of as unreflexive, but lay public actors as reflexive. To provide a concrete grounding for this claim, this paper offers a conceptual analysis of Brian Wynne's work on the public understanding of science. Wynne's work intersects theorizing about late mode…
Resistance to Nuclear Waste Disposal
This article asks the question whether, in regard to controversial technical decision-making, lay public groups advance different kinds of resistance than credentialed experts. This question is explored via a case-study analysis of one of Canada's major public controversies of the past quarter century—nuclear waste disposal. Having arrived on the policy radar in 1977, nuclear waste remained an internal government/nuclear industry matter until ter…
Radwaste in Canada
Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) proposed Adaptive Phased Management (APM) as an approach for managing used nuclear fuel in November 2005 NWMO (Nuclear Waste Management Organization). 2005. Choosing a way forward: The future management of Canada’s used nuclear fuel, Toronto: NWMO. Final study [Google Scholar], and this approach was approved by government in June 2007. APM involves either disposing of or storing used nuclear f…
Responsible action and nuclear waste disposal
Models of democracy in social studies of science
Science and Technology Studies (STS) offers contrasting normative visions of how to democratically manage the relations between experts and larger publics in contemporary liberal democracies. This lack of uniformity has not stopped advocates of participatory politics from implying that to be anything other than staunch defenders of ‘the public’ is to be illiberal and undemocratic. But if we turn to political philosophy, part of liberal democratic…
Simulative politics
According to Ingolfur Blühdorn’s theory of post-ecologist politics, attempts to promote ecological sustainability and enact an authentic democratic politics are highly unlikely to succeed and are more a performance of seriousness than a set of authentic demands. Affluent post-industrial consumer societies can now only produce ‘simulations’ of sustainability and democracy, aiming only at reassurance. Using the case of policymaking about high-level…
Remaking participation
Experts and the Will of the People
The rise of populism in the West has led to attacks on the legitimacy of scientific expertise in political decision making. This book explores the differences between populism and pluralist democracy and their relationship with science. Pluralist democracy is characterised by respect for minority choices and a system of checks and balances that prevents power being concentrated in one group, while populism treats minorities as traitorous so as to…
Amazon’s Ring
Amazon’s Ring video doorbells allow users to easily see and talk with people in camera range over their phones, record and save camera footage to the cloud, and share videos of suspicious activity
A new method for computational cultural cartography
Recently, computational social scientists have proposed exciting new methods for 'mapping meaning space' and analysing the structure and evolution of complex cultural constructs from large text datasets. These emerging approaches to 'cultural cartography' are based on a foundation of neural network word embeddings that represent the meaning of words, in relation to one another, as vectors in a shared high-dimensional latent space. These new metho…
Are Honest Brokers Good for Democracy
In Roger Pielke Jr.’s The Honest Broker (2007) he discusses different roles a scientist can adopt when giving advice to policymakers. The honest broker role focuses on clarifying and expanding the scope of choice for others. This role has the virtues of being sensitive to known problems with experts being partisan by stealth, dominating policy decisions by controlling knowledge input, and reducing the scope of considerations deemed relevant to de…
Collins on experts
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