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- Benner, Mats, et al.
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Big science in a small country
- 2012
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Ingår i: In Pursuit of a Promise. - 9789179242473 ; , s. 159-172
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Berggren, Karl-Fredrik, et al.
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Science at the ESS : a brief outline
- 2012
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Ingår i: In Pursuit of a Promise. - : Arkiv förlag & tidskrift. - 9789179242473 ; , s. 31-47
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- On 28 May 2009, at a closed meeting in Brussels, ministers and state secretaries of education and science from several EU countries decided to build the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund, Sweden. Or did they?It is common for big European science projects to be surrounded by secrecy and political deceit, but the ESS is extraordinary in its elusiveness. There is a remarkable lack of concrete economic, political, technical and scientific underpinnings to the project but a boasting certainty in the promises of future paybacks.The ESS is an accelerator-based neutron spallation facility that will cost billions of Euros to build and run. It is expected to bring new knowledge in several fields including materials science, energy research, and the life sciences. But its financing is not yet certain, and future returns hard to predict. How then could the decision to build ESS occur? Why was there so little organized resistance?This book places the ESS project in its political and scientific context. It links the decisions taken to the history of Big Science in Europe and in Sweden. It looks at the dynamic political processes of establishing this megaproject in a small town in the south of Sweden. The eight chapters start from a paradoxical state of affairs: The ESS is not funded, and not formally decided in any binding agreements yet it is treated as a future reality, locally and nationally, loaded with promises of scientific, economic and social returns.The book makes a much-needed first contribution to the analysis of the ESS project and its political, environmental, and social ramifications. It should be read by scholars of science and technology studies, politicians and the interested general public.
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- Berggren, Karl-Fredrik, et al.
(författare)
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Timeline of major events
- 2012
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Ingår i: In pursuit of a promise: Perspectives on the political process to establish the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund, Sweden. - Lund : Arkiv Förlag. - 9789179242473
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Berggren, Karl-Fredrik, et al.
(författare)
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Timeline of major events
- 2012
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Ingår i: In pursuit of a promise. - : Arkiv förlag & tidskrift. - 9789179242473 ; , s. 21-30
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- On 28 May 2009, at a closed meeting in Brussels, ministers and state secretaries of education and science from several EU countries decided to build the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund, Sweden. Or did they?It is common for big European science projects to be surrounded by secrecy and political deceit, but the ESS is extraordinary in its elusiveness. There is a remarkable lack of concrete economic, political, technical and scientific underpinnings to the project but a boasting certainty in the promises of future paybacks.The ESS is an accelerator-based neutron spallation facility that will cost billions of Euros to build and run. It is expected to bring new knowledge in several fields including materials science, energy research, and the life sciences. But its financing is not yet certain, and future returns hard to predict. How then could the decision to build ESS occur? Why was there so little organized resistance?This book places the ESS project in its political and scientific context. It links the decisions taken to the history of Big Science in Europe and in Sweden. It looks at the dynamic political processes of establishing this megaproject in a small town in the south of Sweden. The eight chapters start from a paradoxical state of affairs: The ESS is not funded, and not formally decided in any binding agreements yet it is treated as a future reality, locally and nationally, loaded with promises of scientific, economic and social returns.The book makes a much-needed first contribution to the analysis of the ESS project and its political, environmental, and social ramifications. It should be read by scholars of science and technology studies, politicians and the interested general public.
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- Elzinga, Aant, 1937
(författare)
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Tensions and change in the framing of science policy: the value of academic values in an era of globalization
- 2012
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Ingår i: In Olof Hallonstend (ed.), In pursuit of a promise. Perspectives on the political process to establish the European Spallation Source in Lund, Sweden. - Lund : Arkiv. - 9789179242473 ; , s. 49-80
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The chapter is a contribution to contextualizing the building of the European Spallation Source (ESS) as an intergovernmental megascience project in Lund by placing it in historical and contemporary perspective with regard to the politics, sociology and philosophy of science. Including an exposé over the transition (in the post cold war period) to a new science policy regime, the chapter raises significant questions of the nature and meaning of scientific knowledge production by the means of large and expensive instrumentation, in relation to the harsh utilitarianism that signifies modern science policy. Also discussed is the outcome of a policy that focuses strongly on promises and expectations of hasty and spectacular results. The reader is introduced to the promises of technoscience in an era when scientific knowledge and the technologies that support its creation, diffusion,and use is regarded as a key asset in meeting the challenges of economic globalization. This, and the influence of new public management (NPM) on science and technology policy (and society at large) are two societal phenomena that may aid in explaining the opaque decision-making and credibility-building processes around the ESS. The multiple significance of academic values is highlighted.
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- Kaiserfeld, Thomas, et al.
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Afterword: Clues to a continuing story of an open-ended case
- 2012
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Ingår i: In Pursuit of a Promise: Perspectives on the political process to establish the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund, Sweden. - 9789179242473 ; , s. 213-219
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