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Thursday
007. Participation Coupled with Technocracy in Nuclear
Questions
8:30 to 10:00 am
Crowne Plaza: Grand Ballroom ‐ East
Chair:
Lynn Eden, Stanford University
Participants:
Underdetermination of Policy in Nuclear Waste Disposal in Japan:
Participation of the People, by the People, for Whom? Miwao
Matsumoto, University of Tokyo
Technocracy and Deliberation in Nuclear Waste Management in
Finland, France and the UK. Markku Lehtonen, University of
Sussex
The Strange Case of Being Inclusively Excluded: Canadian Waste,
Eh. Darrin Durant, York University
Rethinking the Introduction of Participatory Process in Japanese
Nuclear Scene. Kohta Juraku, University of Tokyo
Discussant:
Allison Macfarlane, George Mason University
008. (Re)Inventing the Internet: New Forms of Agency
8:30 to 10:00 am
Crowne Plaza: Grand Ballroom ‐ West
Chair:
Andrew Feenberg, Simon Fraser University
Participants:
Critical Theory of Communication Technology. Andrew Feenberg,
Simon Fraser University