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Space, time and nature: exploring the public reception of biotechnology in New Zealand

Fiona Coyle

John Fairweather

Lincoln University, New Zealand, fairweat{at}lincoln.ac.nz

Nature is widely acknowledged to be a fluid, contested, material-semiotic construction, historically and spatially grounded. This is certainly the case for New Zealand, where a number of constructions of nature have been mobilized as a means to make judgments over the viability of particular biotechnologies that have entered into public debate. In this paper, we utilize Mikhail Bakhtin’s space-time matrix, the chronotope, to explore a series of complementary nature-narratives that have been mobilized as a moral basis for making judgments over the acceptability of a series of exemplars of novel biotechnologies that were presented to participants in eleven national focus groups. We argue that it is the specific space-time manipulations that characterize these sometimes overlapping narrative constructions that are used to justify reactions to novel biotechnologies.

Public Understanding of Science, Vol. 14, No. 2, 143-161 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0963662505050110
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