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KMID : 1142820190030020019
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Bio, Ethics and Policy
2019 Volume.3 No. 2 p.19 ~ p.45
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Globalized privatization regime and the mode of practice of Biotechnology ? Focusing on the Study of GMO as ‘undone science’ and its Implication
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Kim Dong-Kwang
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Abstract
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Today, the situation around science is changing very rapidly. Since the end of the twentieth century, neoliberal movements to remove all the obstacles to the free flow of capital have greatly influenced the mode of practice of science and technology, especially of biotechnology. As radical changes in the actors, regulations, and support systems of science and technology have emerged, new approaches are beginning to be required in the social research of science and technology. The approach encompassed in the name of the new political sociology of science(NPSS) is an attempt to responds to these changes based on the existing achievements and limitations of Science & Technology Studies (STS). This study is a small attempt to analyze how the mode of practice of biotechnology is changing by analyzing GMOs on the basis of the NPSS approach. Often, the debate surrounding GMOs tends to be reduced to safety and harm to humans and ecosystems, but it may confine GMO studies into an overly narrow framework and reduce the issue from social structural discussions to scientific grounds for safety. This is the danger of so-called scientization. The problem of GMOs needs to consider the industrialized agricultural structure, the pursuit of the interests of multinational corporations, the role played by civil society and its impacts from the point of view of globalized privatization regime. Neoliberalism, the globalized privatization regime, and biotechnology are inextricably intertwined and inseparably tightly coupled.
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KEYWORD
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biotechnology, neoliberalism, globalized privatization regime, undone science, new political sociology of science(NPSS), Science & Technology Studies (STS)
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