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<p><span style="color:#1F497D">Please note that, due to the Labor Day Holiday, the first meeting of the STS Circle will take place on Tuesday, September 8<sup>th</sup>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-fareast-language:NL">Andreas Mitzschke</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-fareast-language:NL">Competing, Conflicting, and Contested Futures: Temporal Imaginaries in the GM Crops Controversy</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:NL"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
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our online form</a></span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black"> before</span><span style="color:black"> Thursday morning,
</span>September 3rd.<span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Abstract: </span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In
t</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">he enduring controversy about the potential risks and benefits of genetically modified (GM) crops, different actors construct competing visions of the future. These conflict
over the envisioned impacts and consequences of this technology. In my presentation I show how various actors in the Indian and European GM crop debates are constructing sociotechnical imaginaries which they situate in
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">temporal relations between past, present, and future.
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">How risks and benefits are imagined to fundamentally change society’s future also relates to ideas about the present reality of agricultural relations and the history of
agricultural development in India and Europe. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Based on an analysis of documents and qualitative in-depth interviews, I argue that understanding the temporality of sociotechnical imaginaries
allows us to address the competing normative dimensions of the debate more clearly. Further, I</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> make the methodological proposition that the focus on temporality provides
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the University of Essex (UK), and the Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (India). He holds a BA in European Studies (2008) and an MSc (research) Cultures of Arts, Science and Technology (2010). Andreas is currently writing his PhD thesis at the Department
of Society and Technology Studies in Maastricht, where he also teaches in various undergraduate courses. In his dissertation on public controversies about genetically modified crops in India and Europe, Andreas is studying how crop biotechnology and public
involvement in this issue have shaped democratic political cultures in a globalised world. From a co-constructionist perspective, he scrutinises the mutual shaping of controversies about risk and ‘publics’. His comparative approach to techno-scientific cultures
in the global North and South argues for the explicit inclusion of normative issues of democracy, imagination, and politics in debates about technological risks.<o:p></o:p></p>
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