IsisCB Explore

Article ID: CBB368945327

ELSI is Our Next Battlefield (2021)

Mikami, Koichi (Author)
Ema, Arisa (Author)
Minari, Jusaku (Author)
Yoshizawa, Go (Author)

East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Volume: 15
Issue: 1
Pages: 86-96

URI: https://doi.org/10.1080/18752160.2021.1881279

DOI: 10.1080/18752160.2021.1881279

Outside Links

WorldCat

Google Scholar

JSTOR

Academia.edu

ELSI refers to “ethical, legal, and social issues/implications” of science and technology (S&T). The term has been gaining currency in Japan over the last 15 years in the context of its national S&T policy. In this essay, we argue that ELSI will become a pivotal concept characterizing the relationship between S&T and social sciences and humanities (SSH) in the country, due particularly to the first-ever amendment to the S&T Basic Law scheduled in April 2021. And because ELSI is recognized as an area of work that STS scholarship should play a major part in, how the local STS community is going to respond to the change this leads to will have a decisive impact on the way in which the relationship becomes characterized. The government’s persistent use of the term despite the criticism it has received reveals an assumption underpinning its S&T policy about the way in which the work of SSH contributes to S&T and helps to foster innovation. It is therefore important for the community to challenge such an assumption and reframe the role of SSH, if it believes in the societal value of its scholarship and the critical sensibilities that its research offers.

...More

Citation URI

https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB368945327/

Citations Indexes

Similar Citations

Article Katarina Damjanov; (January 2017)
Of Defunct Satellites and Other Space Debris: Media Waste in the Orbital Commons (/isis/citation/CBB576295610/)

Book Susanne Brucksch; Sasaki, Kaori; (2021)
Humans and devices in medical contexts: case studies from Japan (/isis/citation/CBB737777497/)

Article Sebastian Pfotenhauer; Brice Laurent; Kyriaki Papageorgiou; Jack Stilgoe; (February 2022)
The politics of scaling (/isis/citation/CBB728996301/)

Article Hiro Saito; (January 2021)
The Developmental State and Public Participation: The Case of Energy Policy-making in Post–Fukushima Japan (/isis/citation/CBB786983437/)

Article Kjetil Rommetveit; Niels van Dijk; Kristrún Gunnarsdóttir; (2020)
Make Way for the Robots! Human- and Machine-Centricity in Constituting a European Public–Private Partnership (/isis/citation/CBB767588766/)

Book Melinda Harm Benson; Robin Kundis Craig; (2017)
The End of Sustainability: Resilience and the Future of Environmental Governance in the Anthropocene (/isis/citation/CBB796537319/)

Book Sawai, Minoru; (2012)
Kindai Nihon no kenkyu kaihatsu taisei (/isis/citation/CBB001451270/)

Article Benedict Douglas; (January 2018)
The mtDNA of Human Rights (/isis/citation/CBB895767767/)

Book Sharyn O'Halloran; (2019)
After the Crash: Financial crises and regulatory responses (/isis/citation/CBB186963345/)

Article Itty Abraham; (December 2018)
Prehistory of Aadhaar: Body, Law, and Technology as Postcolonial Assemblage (/isis/citation/CBB114433718/)

Article Kean Birch; D. T. Cochrane; (2022)
Big Tech: Four Emerging Forms of Digital Rentiership (/isis/citation/CBB521610905/)

Article Baldini, Nicola; Fini, Riccardo; Grimaldi, Rosa; Sobrero, Maurizio; (2014)
Organisational Change and the Institutionalisation of University Patenting Activity in Italy (/isis/citation/CBB001420874/)

Article Thakir, Mitali; (2017)
How to Look: Apprehension, Forensic Craft, and the Classification of Child Exploitation Images (/isis/citation/CBB389172129/)

Article Jenni Brichzin; (April 2020)
Materializations through political work (/isis/citation/CBB574207161/)

Article Bronwyn Parry; (January 2018)
The Social Life of “Scaffolds” Examining Human Rights in Regenerative Medicine (/isis/citation/CBB220784562/)

Article Christiane Wilke; (November 2017)
Seeing and Unmaking Civilians in Afghanistan: Visual Technologies and Contested Professional Visions (/isis/citation/CBB113464170/)

Article Andy Stirling; Cian O'Donovan; Becky Ayre; (May 2018)
Which Way? Who Says? Why? Questions on the Multiple Directions of Social Progress (/isis/citation/CBB983015921/)

Article María Belén Albornoz; Isarelis Pérez Ones; (2020)
Researching public policy in the making: The Ecuadorian Law of Entrepreneurship and Innovation (/isis/citation/CBB349719694/)

Article Neelke Doorn; Behnam Taebi; (May 2018)
Rawls’s Wide Reflective Equilibrium as a Method for Engaged Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Potentials and Limitations for the Context of Technological Risks (/isis/citation/CBB722391619/)

Article Owen Marshall; (2022)
Un-silencing an Experimental Technique: Listening to the Electrical Penetration Graph (/isis/citation/CBB827332902/)

Comments

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}