The elephant and the dragon in contemporary life sciences: A call for decolonising global governance (Inscriptions)

This book demonstrates that the ‘subversiveness’ assumed in China’s and India’s rise in the life sciences reflects many of the regulatory challenges that are shared globally. It stresses a decolonial imperative for science governance to be responsive and effective in a cosmopolitan world. -- . "In the field of the life sciences, China and India are seen as both emerging 'dragons' and as 'elephants'. Both countries have formidable resources andare determined to have their presence felt, but do these scientific 'dragons' abide by the rules? This book provides essential insight into the logic of science govenance and strategic disobedience, exploring critical events including gene research, stem cell therapies, GM crops, CRISPR technologies and the COVID-19 pandemic. It argues that as science outgrows traditional colonies of expertise and authority, good governance must be decolonised to acquire the capacity to think from and with others. By highlighting epistemic injustice within contemporary science, the book extends theories of decolonisation for science-society relationsin a global age."-- Page 4 of cover This book provides a powerful diagnosis of why the global governance of science struggles in the face of emerging powers. Through unpacking critical events in China and India over the past twenty years, it demonstrates that the 'subversiveness' assumed in the two countries' rise in the life sciences reflects many of the regulatory challenges that are shared worldwide. It points to a decolonial imperative for science governance to be responsive and effective in a cosmopolitan world. By highlighting epistemic injustice within contemporary science, the book extends theories of decolonisation. -- Provided by publisher Front matter 1 Contents 7 Preface 8 Acknowledgements 13 The global science race and the decolonial imperative for governance 15 Unpacking the subaltern anxiety through modernisation and globalisation 33 Chinese life sciences’ ‘struggle for recognition’ 47 India: self-sufficiency in a globalised world 94 The dragon–elephant tango: making sense of the rise of China and India 140 What global science will have been 167 Bibliography 175 Index 217