Changing Social Order and the Quest for Justification
GMO Controversies in Japan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5199201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tomiko Yamaguchi (0000-0001-6175-199X, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan,, corresponding author), Fumiaki Suda (Marketing Research Team, National Agricultural Research Center, Tsukuba, Japan) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 382-407 |
| Publication date | 2010-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0162243909345837 |
| OpenAlex | W2097804310 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 12 |
Over the past decade, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have come to be viewed as problematic in Japan, as evidenced by a large number of newspaper articles covering questions ranging from the unknown ecological impact of GMOs to uncertainty about food safety, and by the fact that a number of consumers' groups have organized activities including demonstrations at the experiment stations and the submission of petitions to the government. Against this backdrop, this article attempts to understand the changing interpretation of the perceived rational social order in the context of the Japanese GMO controversies. Drawing on the French Theory of Conventions, the article will shed light on the conventions that serve as templates enabling actors to interpret what it means to introduce GMOs and what constitutes a rational decision concerning GMOs. The article will argue that rationality is best viewed as an emergent and interpretive process involving interpretation and negotiation by and among actors, and that conventions which may be taken for granted are nevertheless unstable and mutable
Biology · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Negotiation · Newspaper · Political science · Positive economics · Rationality · Sociology · French Urban and Social Studies · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Law · Risk Perception and Management
Ethics in action
Weedy activism
Chinese newspaper coverage of genetically modified organisms
Genetic Engineering as a Social Problem
Food saving matters, but what is it a matter of? Alignment and divergence between media discourse and public attitudes in China
Of beans and bonds
Food, agriculture and risk in contemporary Japan
Public attitudes to the promotion of genomic crop studies in Japan
The spatial logics of justification – the case of a dispute over a car-free street in Tampere, Finland
Research into Genetically Modified Organisms in New Zealand
Performativity of expectations
Chinese Public’s Risk Perceptions of Genetically Modified Food
Consumer Movements Confronted by Naturalness in Gene Editing in Japan
The ambivalent regulator
Cultural Boundaries of Science
Sorting Things Out
Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology
Institutional Ecology, `Translations' and Boundary Objects
Opening Pandora's box
Disentrenching Experiment
Boundary-Work and the Demarcation of Science from Non-Science
Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation
L'Amour et la Justice comme compétences
Organized Complexity
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |