Dr Javier Lezaun

Said Business School

James Martin Lecturer in Science and Technology Governance

http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/research/people/Pages/JavierLezaun.aspx

Research Interests

I am interested in the ability of science and technology to generate new political actors and forces. Most of my work focuses on the contemporary life sciences, in particular the biotechnological manipulation of humans and non-humans. I am currently involved in a research programme, BioProperty, focused on how new objects of property rights emerge – and are contested – in the course of biomedical investigations. I am also pursuing a parallel set of interests in relation to the social sciences – specifically on the role of social scientific techniques and modes of experimentation in creating new democratic experiences.

Recent Publications

Lezaun, Javier. 2011. Offshore democracy: launch and landfall of a socio-technical experiment, Economy and Society, 40(4).

Lezaun, Javier. 2011. Bees, beekeepers and bureaucrats: parasitism and the politics of transgenic life, Environment and Planning D, 29(4).

Lezaun, Javier and Rubio, Fernando D. 2011. Technology, Legal Knowledge and Citizenship: On The Care of Locked-in Syndrome Patients. In The Politics of Knowledge, edited by Baert and F. D. Rubio, London: Routledge.

Lezaun, Javier. 2010. Eloquence and incommensurability: an investigation into the grammar of irreconcilable differences, Social Studies of Science, 40(3).

Lezaun, Javier. 2010. Bioethics and the regulation of ‘frontier research’: the case of gene therapy. In Anticipating Risks and Organising Risk Regulation, edited by B. Hutter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lezaun, Javier and Soneryd, Linda. 2007. Consulting citizens: technologies of elicitation and the mobility of publics. Public Understanding of Science, 16(3).

Lezaun, Javier. 2007. A Market of opinions: the political epistemology of focus groups. Sociological Review, 55(2).