Joan Haran
Biographic Data
| ID | 3652205 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan Haran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan |
| FAMILY NAME | Haran |
| SIGNATURE | HARAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Bound in the Spiral Dance
This article uses the figure of the spiral dance to draw out biographical, theoretical, and political similarities and points of friction between Donna Haraway and Starhawk. It suggests that Haraway’s assertion that she would rather be a cyborg than a goddess foreclosed possibilities in feminism which have taken decades to reconstruct
Public knowledge-making and the media
Media analysis of public engagement with genetics and cloning is dominated by media genre-specific or issue-specific analysis. Such analyses tend to frame genetics as a new technology, and media resources as current and immediate. Broader public discourses tend towards marginalising public knowledge as against expert voices. This article takes a broader perspective to demonstrate that people engage with multiple media genres over an extensive tim…
The UK Hybrid Embryo Controversy
The UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act of 1990 was revised in 2008 in response to legal challenges, societal changes and clinical advances since 1990. A provision permitting the creation of animal–human hybrid embryos was the subject of an extremely effective public relations (PR) campaign by embryo scientists and other supporters of such experimentation. In response, science correspondents of the ‘serious’ or ‘quality’ press commented fav…
Publics of Bioscience
The twenty-first century has been hailed as ‘the century of biology’ (Venter and Cohen, 2004). Whatever we might make of this appraisal, the biosciences have become matters of considerable public c
Redefining Hope as Praxis
In this article, a novel by the North American ecofeminist Starhawk is read for its theorisation of the challenge of imagining futures which do not secure justice for some at the expense of others. The article puts this reading of The Fifth Sacred Thing (1993)in dialogue with Jessica Benjamin's work on intersubjectivity and Vivian Sobchack's work on interobjectivity to argue that the working through of intersubjective and interobjective relationa…
Bioethics in the age of new media
Bioethics in the age of new media, by Joanna Zylinska, Cambridge, MA and London, MIT Press, 2009, 240 pp., £22.95 (hardback), ISBN-10: 0-262-24056-4, ISBN-13: 978-0-262-24056-7 Joanna Zylinska's Bi
Modest witnessing and managing the boundaries between science and the media
This article works with the figure of the “modest witness” and the concept of “virtual witnessing” to explore the case of the South Korean scientist, Hwang, whose stem cell breakthroughs are now regarded as hoaxes. We analyze the rhetorical techniques used by the scientific establishment and news media to first endorse, and then disavow, Hwang’s work. In particular, we focus on how the rhetoric of disavowal operates to maintain a dominant underst…
From reproduction to research
This article provides an analysis of the relationships between IVF and therapeutic cloning, as they played out in the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority consultation of 2006: Donating Eggs for Research: Safeguarding Donors. We develop an account of current developments in IVF and cloning which foregrounds the role of mediation in structuring the discursive context in which they are constituted. We foreground the imperative of choice …
Managing the boundaries between maverick cloners and mainstream scientists
In January 2004, the 'maverick cloner', Dr Panos Zavos called a press conference in London to announce that he had implanted a freshly cloned human embryo in the womb of an infertile woman. Reports of this press conference gained prominent coverage in the national newspapers the following day and led television bulletins that evening. This article discusses the ways in which expertise was claimed by or attributed to Dr Zavos and other key media s…
From reproduction to research
This article provides an analysis of the relationships between IVF and therapeutic cloning, as they played out in the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority consultation of 2006: Donating Eggs for Research: Safeguarding Donors. We develop an account of current developments in IVF and cloning which foregrounds the role of mediation in structuring the discursive context in which they are constituted. We foreground the imperative of choice …
Public knowledge-making and the media
Media analysis of public engagement with genetics and cloning is dominated by media genre-specific or issue-specific analysis. Such analyses tend to frame genetics as a new technology, and media resources as current and immediate. Broader public discourses tend towards marginalising public knowledge as against expert voices. This article takes a broader perspective to demonstrate that people engage with multiple media genres over an extensive tim…
The UK Hybrid Embryo Controversy
The UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act of 1990 was revised in 2008 in response to legal challenges, societal changes and clinical advances since 1990. A provision permitting the creation of animal–human hybrid embryos was the subject of an extremely effective public relations (PR) campaign by embryo scientists and other supporters of such experimentation. In response, science correspondents of the ‘serious’ or ‘quality’ press commented fav…
Managing the boundaries between maverick cloners and mainstream scientists
In January 2004, the 'maverick cloner', Dr Panos Zavos called a press conference in London to announce that he had implanted a freshly cloned human embryo in the womb of an infertile woman. Reports of this press conference gained prominent coverage in the national newspapers the following day and led television bulletins that evening. This article discusses the ways in which expertise was claimed by or attributed to Dr Zavos and other key media s…
Modest witnessing and managing the boundaries between science and the media
This article works with the figure of the “modest witness” and the concept of “virtual witnessing” to explore the case of the South Korean scientist, Hwang, whose stem cell breakthroughs are now regarded as hoaxes. We analyze the rhetorical techniques used by the scientific establishment and news media to first endorse, and then disavow, Hwang’s work. In particular, we focus on how the rhetoric of disavowal operates to maintain a dominant underst…
From reproduction to research
This article provides an analysis of the relationships between IVF and therapeutic cloning, as they played out in the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority consultation of 2006: Donating Eggs for Research: Safeguarding Donors. We develop an account of current developments in IVF and cloning which foregrounds the role of mediation in structuring the discursive context in which they are constituted. We foreground the imperative of choice …
Redefining Hope as Praxis
In this article, a novel by the North American ecofeminist Starhawk is read for its theorisation of the challenge of imagining futures which do not secure justice for some at the expense of others. The article puts this reading of The Fifth Sacred Thing (1993)in dialogue with Jessica Benjamin's work on intersubjectivity and Vivian Sobchack's work on interobjectivity to argue that the working through of intersubjective and interobjective relationa…
Bioethics in the age of new media
Bioethics in the age of new media, by Joanna Zylinska, Cambridge, MA and London, MIT Press, 2009, 240 pp., £22.95 (hardback), ISBN-10: 0-262-24056-4, ISBN-13: 978-0-262-24056-7 Joanna Zylinska's Bi
The UK Hybrid Embryo Controversy
The UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act of 1990 was revised in 2008 in response to legal challenges, societal changes and clinical advances since 1990. A provision permitting the creation of animal–human hybrid embryos was the subject of an extremely effective public relations (PR) campaign by embryo scientists and other supporters of such experimentation. In response, science correspondents of the ‘serious’ or ‘quality’ press commented fav…
Publics of Bioscience
The twenty-first century has been hailed as ‘the century of biology’ (Venter and Cohen, 2004). Whatever we might make of this appraisal, the biosciences have become matters of considerable public c
Public knowledge-making and the media
Media analysis of public engagement with genetics and cloning is dominated by media genre-specific or issue-specific analysis. Such analyses tend to frame genetics as a new technology, and media resources as current and immediate. Broader public discourses tend towards marginalising public knowledge as against expert voices. This article takes a broader perspective to demonstrate that people engage with multiple media genres over an extensive tim…
Bound in the Spiral Dance
This article uses the figure of the spiral dance to draw out biographical, theoretical, and political similarities and points of friction between Donna Haraway and Starhawk. It suggests that Haraway’s assertion that she would rather be a cyborg than a goddess foreclosed possibilities in feminism which have taken decades to reconstruct
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