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It is at these sites where the joint production of nanotechnology and the democratic order can be observed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on the United States, France, and Europe, and various international organizations, Laurent analyzes representations of nanotechnology in science museums, collective discussions in participatory settings, the making of categories such as nanomaterials or responsible innovation in standardization and regulatory arenas, and initiatives undertaken by social movements. He contrasts American debates, in which the concern for public objectivity is central, with the French state experiment, the European goal of harmonization, and the international concern with a global market. In France, public debate proceeded in response to public protest and encountered a radical critique of technological development; the United States experimented with an innovative approach to technology assessment. The European regulatory approach results in lengthy debates over political integration; the United States relies on the adversarial functioning of federal agencies. Because nanotechnology is a domain where concerns over anticipation and participation are pervasive, Laurent argues, nanotechnology--and science and technology studies more generally--provides a relevant focus for a renewed analysis of democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49563331526929,"sku":"GOR013434534","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50346345791761,"sku":"CIN0262035766VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50347434115345,"sku":"CIN0262035766G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0262035766.jpg?v=1751324097"},{"product_id":"european-objects-book-brice-laurent-9780262543330","title":"European Objects","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow interventions based on objects-including chemicals, financial products, and consumer goods-offer a path to rethink European integration.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Interventions based on objects, Brice Laurent claims, have become a dominant path for European policy-making. In \u003ci\u003eEuropean Objects,\u003c\/i\u003e Laurent analyzes the political consequences of these interventions and their democratization. He uses the term \"European objects\" to describe technical entities that are regulated-and thereby transformed-by European policies. To uncover the bureaucratic and regulatory intricacies of European governance, Laurent focuses on a series of these objects, including food products, chemicals, financial products, consumer goods, drinking water, and occupational environments. Laurent argues that taking European objects seriously offers a way to rephrase the dreams of harmonization and, eventually, rethink the constitutional strength of European integration.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Laurent doesn't just clarify how European regulation works, but also explores ways to realize long-term objectives for European integration, such as a harmonized market or an objective expertise. Regulation is best understood as \"regulatory machinery\" bringing together various types of legal constraints, material interventions on objects, and the imagining of desirable futures. Analyzing European objects enables Laurent to explore what regulation has become after years of evolution have made it a central component of the European policy world. He offers practical illustrations of how the regulatory machinery functions today. If Europe succeeds at reinventing the terms of its legitimacy with objects that matter for the European publics, it will provide a telling demonstration that the opposition of expertise and populism is not the unavoidable fate of liberal democracies.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49741233062161,"sku":"NGR9780262543330","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0262543338.jpg?v=1751422087"},{"product_id":"labelling-the-economy-book-brice-laurent-9789811515002","title":"Labelling the Economy","description":"1. Introduction Labels in economic and political life: Studying labelling in contemporary markets.- 2. Contested Terrain: The Ongoing Struggles over Food Labels, Standards and Standards for Labels.- 3. Labelling agroecology: A study of valuation processes in developing countries.- 4. Energy and sustainability labels in the commercial office market in the UK.- 5. The Role of Standards and Exemplars in Consolidating Labels for Sustainable Construction.- 6. The sign, beyond the signal. How the State, small businesses and a frog participated in labelling in the home retrofit market.- 7. Governing by labels? Not that simple. The cases of environmental and nutritional policies in France.- 8. A European market for green certificates? The failed disentanglement of immaterial labels from the materiality of electricity.- 9. The Tower of Labels. Labeling goods in the US Grocery Store (1922-2018).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52429433602321,"sku":"NLS9789811515002","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789811515002.jpg?v=1759166876"},{"product_id":"labelling-the-economy-book-brice-laurent-9789811514975","title":"Labelling the Economy","description":"This collected volume analyses labelling as a political and economic operation. It gathers contributions that focus on various domains, including the agri-food sector, the construction sector, eco-labelling, retail, health public policies and the energy sector, considering the use of labels for various objectives, such as providing legal and technical data on consumption products, certifying their quality, and indicating the approval of professional or political authorities. These practices are tied to both public and private interventions that make civic concerns visible and aim to govern them. The book considers 'labelling the economy' as an operation that introduces political questions into the economic realm, while also importing economic modes of reasoning into governance interventions. In doing so, the book considers the sociotechnical apparatus on which any label relies as a nexus where economic and political considerations are brought together.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52584852488465,"sku":"NLS9789811514975","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789811514975.jpg?v=1761051357"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-brice-laurent.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}