ABSTRACT
In this chapter I will elaborate in more abstract terms the idea that pervades every line of this book. Techno-science is a quasi-social movement in search for material and symbolic support. In this context the problem of resistance arises. The social movement literature focusses on the mobilisation of resistance against techno-scientifi c developments, for example against nuclear power and genetic engineering. This is not the main concern here, but is implied. I will turn the issue on its head and ask: how does techno-scientifi c mobilisation deal with the resistance that is encountered? This raises the following questions:
• What is ‘resistance’? • How is resistance registered or ignored during mobilisation eff orts? • What is the eff ect of resistance being registered? • What is the relation between ‘resistance registered’ and movement
learning?
