Reference : On Reflections and Reflexiveness: Positioning the Self, Enframing the Other?

	Document type :	Scientific congresses and symposiums : Unpublished conference
	Discipline(s) :	Law, criminology & political science : Political science, public administration & international relations
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/2268/73811

Title :	On Reflections and Reflexiveness: Positioning the Self, Enframing the Other?
Language :	English
Alternative title :	[en] À propos de la réflexion et de la réflexivité: se positionner et cadrer l'autre?
Author, co-author :	Thoreau, François [Université de Liège - ULg > Département de science politique > Gouvernance et société >]
Publication date :	1-Oct-2010
Page number :	16
On invitation :	No
Audience :	International
Event name :	S.NET 2nd annual meeting, 2010
Event date :	29 Septembre 2010 to 2 October 2010
Event organizer :	Society for Newly Emerging Technologies
Event place (city) :	Darmstadt
Event country :	Germany
Keywords :	[en] Reflexiveness ; Despret ; Dispositif
Abstract :	[en] STS scholars are increasingly engaged with science and technology practitioners, scientists, engineers and the like. The actual dynamics of these engagements differ from one project, framework or school to the next. However, to be reflexive, such engagements exercises need to deal at some point with the ambiguous ethical relationships between engager and engaged. In an attempt to disambiguate some of these interactive ties, we begin by considering the respective agendas of involved participants. To do so, we draw upon Despret’s perspectives about experiments on animals and the paradoxical relationships they give rise to. We identify the implied injunctions among STS scholars not only to "be reflexive" but also to reflect back onto practitioners their own worldviews. We then consider some of the ethical tensions, ambiguities and paradoxes between and emerging out of reflexive engagements of the self and of the other. Particularly, we explore to what extent reflexive engagements constitute ends in themselves or means to other ends. We ground this analysis in empirical evidence from an engagement study conducted in a large-scale R&D center in Flanders, Belgium.
Research units :	Spiral
Funders :	Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (Communauté française de Belgique) - F.R.S.-FNRS
Target :	Researchers
Permalink :	http://hdl.handle.net/2268/73811

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