Reflexive Governance for Research and Innovative Knowledge

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Foreword
  6. Introduction
  7. 1 RRI and Governance Theory
    1. 1.1. Definition of a minimum concept of governance
    2. 1.2. RRI and governance theory
    3. 1.3. The case of neighboring fields
    4. 1.4. Lessons to be learned
    5. 1.5. Changing perspective
  8. 2 The Origins of Governance Theory
    1. 2.1. Old and new governance: a first shift
    2. 2.2. The neo-institutionalist hypothesis
    3. 2.3. The nodal governance approach
    4. 2.4. The move toward democratic experimentalism
    5. 2.5. Institutionalist change and reflexivity in governance theories
  9. 3 Exploring Reflexive Governance Theory
    1. 3.1. Reflexivity and the academic third party
    2. 3.2. Reflexivity and the imaginary third party
    3. 3.3. Reflexivity and the real third party
    4. 3.4. The increase in references to reflexivity
    5. 3.5. Reasons why this use of reflexivity is unsatisfactory
    6. 3.6. What remains out of scope
  10. 4 Key Strengths of a Reflexive Theory of Governance
    1. 4.1. Attention as “thematization”
    2. 4.2. Reflexivity in governance
    3. 4.3. Deconstructing governance narratives
    4. 4.4. Examples of post hoc thematization of relational decentering
    5. 4.5. Shortcomings of thematization
    6. 4.6. The five stages of reflexive governance in identity processes
  11. 5 Promoting Reflexive Governance of RRI
    1. 5.1. Co-constructing problems
    2. 5.2. Transformation of relational structures and negotiability of roles
    3. 5.3. Iterating identities
    4. 5.4. RRIs pathway for reflexive governance
    5. 5.5. Operationalizing reflexive governance of RRI
  12. 6 Intellectual Intervention in Society: The Key to Reflexive Governance of RRI
    1. 6.1. The destiny of rationality in the construction of common interest
    2. 6.2. The fragmentation of knowledge
    3. 6.3. Contradiction and pluralization of real interests
    4. 6.4. From intellectual intervention to the community of destiny
    5. 6.5. The possible role of political philosophy
    6. 6.6. Long and short cycles of RRI governance
    7. 6.7. A new model for the institution of knowledge?
  13. Conclusion
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index
  16. End User License Agreement

Product information

  • Title: Reflexive Governance for Research and Innovative Knowledge
  • Author(s): Marc Maesschalck
  • Release date: March 2017
  • Publisher(s): Wiley-ISTE
  • ISBN: 9781848219892