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Performativity in Action: How Risk Communication Interacts in Risk Regulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

P. Marijn Poortvliet ,
Martijn Duineveld  and
Kai Purnhagen
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Examples abound of highly politicized instances of risk controversies, such as the climate debate, counterterrorism, and the commercialization of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Numerous reasons, such as divergent perspectives, ways of communication, and interests, explain why involved actors often find themselves locked in a controversy.

For instance, in the GMO debates environmental politicians, NGOs, industrial parties, consumers, and GMO scientists have exerted very distinct ways of communication, resulting in a highly polarized and contested gene-risk landscape. As a consequence, some industrial players have left or terminated R&D activities in the EU, while other scientists escape the gaze of EU-regulations and started experimenting in places with a different approach to GMO regulation and control.

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European Journal of Risk Regulation , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , March 2016 , pp. 213 - 217
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016

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