1. Introduction – the Challenges. 2. From Education to Engagement: European Framing of Science-public Relations. 3. New European Regimes of Public Engagement. 4. Forming and Performing Publics: Ways of Collective Knowing. 5. Conclusions: The ‘Growing Unease’ Revisited. Getting society on board the innovation train: partnership, participatory modes of governance. Public understanding of science, lack of scientific culture, lack of trust of policy and scientific authorities, models of public dialogue,learning/communication processes. Partnerships between science and society: public consultation, public debates, public involvement, scientists role. Legitimated players, stakeholder democracy, patients’ associations, Wiki movement, informal collective practices. Contextual visions of techno-science and innovation.

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1. Science, Opinions, Immigration. 2. The Rhetorics of Immigration. 3. Culture Has Nothing to Do with It. Scientific discourse, public opinions, mass media, the role of experts, scientific “data” and power of persuasion, obviousness. Moral rhetoric, demographic rhetoric, cultural rhetoric, scientific rhetoric. Race, ethnicity, nation, asymmetry. Cultures, civilizations, universal religions: a society’s process of label construction.

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