Franz Seifert

Biographic Data

ID3934995
NAMEFranz Seifert
GIVEN NAMESFranz
FAMILY NAMESeifert
SIGNATURESEIFERT F
AFFILIATIONSAustrian Academy of Sciences
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • Hype After Hype

    Open AccessFranz Seifert, Camilo FautzARTICLENanoEthics2021Cited by: 1References: 4

  • National specificity and convergence in the European anti-GM movement

    Open AccessFranz SeifertARTICLEInnovation The European Journal…2020Cited by: 1References: 12

    Are protest movements nationally specific or does EU policy integration cause national movements to converge? Drawing on data from a protest event analysis that covers a period from 1995 to 2009, the study compares anti-GM movements in Austria, France, Germany, Spain and the UK. Focusing on the variables of movement intensity, targets, action repertoires, composition and temporal dynamics, the comparison carves out both commonalities and national…

  • Atoms, bytes and genes. Public resistance and techno-scientific responses

    Franz SeifertARTICLESocial movement studies2017

    "Atoms, bytes and genes. Public resistance and techno-scientific responses." Social Movement Studies, 16(3), pp. 369–370

  • Measuring the Europeanization of the Anti-Gm Movement

    Franz SeifertARTICLEMobilization An International…2017Cited by: 1

    This study investigates the Europeanization of the anti-GM movement. Drawing on a quantitative protest event analysis that covers the period from 1995 to 2009 in Austria, France, Germany, Spain, and the UK, as well as in the sub-, supra- and transnational spheres (N = 1,865), it compares four pathways to Europeanization: domestication, externalization, supranationalization, and transnational pressure. It explains the relative prominence of these …

  • Environmentalism, Resistance and Solidarity

    Franz SeifertARTICLESocial movement studies2016

    Environmentalism, Resistance and Solidarity: The Politics of Friends of the Earth International." Social Movement Studies, 15(1), pp. 115–116

  • From Anti-Biotech to Nano-Watch

    Open AccessFranz Seifert, Alexandra PlowsARTICLENanoEthics2014References: 5

  • Consensual Nimbys, Contentious Niabys

    Open AccessFranz SeifertARTICLESociologia Ruralis2009

    This article contrasts forms of farmers’ resistance to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Austria and France. While Austrian farmers take a back seat in public opposition to GMOs, Austria's national GMO policy is designed to protect farmers, particularly organic farmers, by banning the unwanted technology. It thus mitigates both public controversy and the potential framing of the GMO issue which might go beyond a merely defensive ‘not in my…

  • Local steps in an international career

    Open AccessFranz SeifertARTICLEPublic Understanding of Science2006

    The article gives an account of the first Austrian nationwide Danish-style consensus conference, held in the summer of 2003, treating policy issues related to genetic data. Consensus conferences are currently widely discussed for their promise to democratize fields of technological decision-making which are both crucial to the fate of modern society and inaccessible to public involvement. Instead of evaluating the “democratic efficiency” of the d…

  • Beinahe-Gleichzeitigkeit. Die europäische Anti-Gentechnik-Welle und das Öffentlichkeitsdefizit der EU

    Open AccessFranz SeifertARTICLEBerliner Journal für Soziologie2003References: 14

  • Collective symbolic coping with new technology

    Open AccessWolfgang Wagner, Nicole Kronberger et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Social…2002

    Using data from policy analyses, media analyses and a European‐wide survey about public perceptions of biotechnology conducted in 1996 and again in 1999, it is shown how a country's public develops an everyday understanding of a new technology (genetic modification) construed as potentially harmful by the media. To understand the reliance on images and related beliefs, we propose a theory of collective symbolic coping. It identifies four steps: f…

  • Austria

    HelgeFranz Torgersen, HelgeFranz Torgersen HelgeFranz Torgersen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Risk Research2000Cited by: 3

    Austria has interpreted the precautionary principle and Directive 90/220 in a more stringent way than other EU member states. It continues to ban the import of Bt maize despite the Commission’s recurrent warnings. The Austrian standard of GMO risk assessment emphasizes a broad definition of adverse effects beyond a purely technical account of risk, including effects of agricultural practices. Boundaries between plant, seed, food, and feed assessm…

  • How to keep out what we don't want

    Open AccessFranz Seifert, Helge TorgersenARTICLEPublic Understanding of Science1997

    National regulations for new science and engineering projects are often drawn up on foundations that refer to the current `state of the art'. However, this approach suffers from the fundamental problem, among others, that science progresses quickly, and models for the development of science have only limited predictive ability. Assessing the risk associated with a project therefore becomes a complex problem; and so non-scientific criteria can not…

  • Aversion preceding rejection

    Open AccessHelge Torgersen, Franz SeifertARTICLEPublic Understanding of Science1997

    In late 1994, we performed a representative survey on attitudes to biotechnology and genetic engineering in Austria using the questionnaire applied in the Eurobarometer survey 39.1 of 1993. The results showed that support for genetic engineering in Austria was low compared to support in the rest of Europe. However, risks were perceived as being comparatively low, and the demand for government control was below average. Together with the very low …