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Working with bacteria and putting bacteria to work: The biopolitics of synthetic
biology for energy in the United Kingdom
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McLeod C
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Energy Res Soc Sci
2017[Aug]; 30
(ä): 35-42
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The UK government has made significant investment into so called
'fourth-generation' biofuel technologies. These biofuels are based on engineering
the metabolic pathways of bacteria in order to create products compatible with
existing infrastructure. Bacteria play an important role in what is promoted as a
potentially new biological industrial revolution, which could address some of the
negative environmental legacies of the last. This article presents results from
ethnographic research with synthetic biologists who are challenged with balancing
the curiosity-driven and intrinsically fulfilling scientific task of working with
bacteria, alongside the policy-driven task of putting bacteria to work for
extrinsic economic gains. In addition, the scientists also have to balance these
demands with a new research governance framework, Responsible Research and
Innovation, which envisions technoscientific innovation will be responsive to
societal concerns and work in collaboration with stakeholders and members of the
public. Major themes emerging from the ethnographic research revolve around
stewardship, care, responsibility and agency. An overall conflict surfaces
between individual agents assuming responsibility for 'stewarding' bacteria,
against funding systems and structures imposing responsibility for economic
growth. We discuss these findings against the theoretical backdrop of a new
concept of 'energopolitics' and an anthropology of ethics and responsibility.