Contesting Co-Inquiry: "Noncommunicative" Discourse in a Flemish Participatory Technology Assessment

摘要: This article explores how social scientists, ethicists, and nanotechnologists construct research decisions together, while engaged in a Flemish participatory technology assessment on nanotechnologies. It finds that they routinely probe one another to make substantive contributions but avoid the argumentative initiative itself through various discursive strategies, such as reversing roles delegating responsibility. argues these strategies emanate project’s methodology of co-inquiry, which depends sharing partnership, whereas some members resist participating initiators’ terms. links “noncommunicative” action unresolved disagreements between participants about project ends, conflicting approaches decision making, divergent appreciations “uncertainty.”