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doctoral thesis http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06 info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis Opening Participation through Participatory Technology Assessment: The Case of Nanotechnologies for Tomorrow's Society Van Oudheusden, Michiel Loots, Ilse Goorden, Lieve 2012-03-23 237 https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/127930 info:hdl:2268/127930 en Nanotechnologies Participation Technology Assessment Social & behavioral sciences, psychology Sociology & social sciences Sciences sociales & comportementales, psychologie Sociologie & sciences sociales This dissertation examines how participants in a Flemish participatory technology assessment (pTA) on nanotechnologies defined and negotiated the meaning of participation in (nano)science and technology in the course of their engagements. It focuses explicitly on the initiating role that social scientists played in the project and how they performed participation. The dissertation proposes a critical reappraisal of the way in which participation in pTA is planned and implemented, which is explicitly political in character. UA - Universiteit Antwerpen Universiteit Antwerpen