Mapping knowledge controversies: science, democracy and the redistribution of expertise Export

@article{citeulike:5297454, abstract = {Reflecting on conversations between geography and science and technology studies (STS) over the last 15 years or so, this paper addresses their shared interest in knowledge controversies as generative political events. It explores how such events give rise to new ways of practising relations between science and democracy focusing on the case of environmental knowledge claims and technologies. This exploration interrogates three mobilizations of environmental knowledge controversies that have different implications for redistributing expertise, including that of (social) scientists, in the composition of knowledge polities. The first version sets out to map the language commitments of contributors to a controversy with the aim of enabling interested citizens to trace the partisanship' of scientific knowledge claims. The second is also a cartographic exercise designed to teach students how to account for the political force of technoscientific controversies by mapping the intense entanglements of scientific knowledge claims with legal, moral, economic and social concerns on the web. The third is concerned less with mapping knowledge controversies from an analytical distance than with an experimental research methodology that sets out to intervene in extant controversies in ways that map researchers' own knowledge claims into what is at stake. 10.1177/0309132509339841}, author = {Whatmore, Sarah J.}, citeulike-article-id = {5297454}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132509339841}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://phg.sagepub.com/content/33/5/587.abstract}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://phg.sagepub.com/content/33/5/587.full.pdf}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1177/0309132509339841}, journal = {Prog Hum Geogr}, keywords = {geography, knowledge, science, sts}, month = {October}, number = {5}, pages = {587--598}, posted-at = {2009-10-04 14:49:57}, priority = {2}, title = {Mapping knowledge controversies: science, democracy and the redistribution of expertise}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132509339841}, volume = {33}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5297454 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5297454 N2 - Reflecting on conversations between geography and science and technology studies (STS) over the last 15 years or so, this paper addresses their shared interest in knowledge controversies as generative political events. It explores how such events give rise to new ways of practising relations between science and democracy focusing on the case of environmental knowledge claims and technologies. This exploration interrogates three mobilizations of environmental knowledge controversies that have different implications for redistributing expertise, including that of (social) scientists, in the composition of knowledge polities. The first version sets out to map the language commitments of contributors to a controversy with the aim of enabling interested citizens to trace the partisanship' of scientific knowledge claims. The second is also a cartographic exercise designed to teach students how to account for the political force of technoscientific controversies by mapping the intense entanglements of scientific knowledge claims with legal, moral, economic and social concerns on the web. The third is concerned less with mapping knowledge controversies from an analytical distance than with an experimental research methodology that sets out to intervene in extant controversies in ways that map researchers' own knowledge claims into what is at stake. 10.1177/0309132509339841 IS - 5 JF - Prog Hum Geogr EP - 598 TI - Mapping knowledge controversies: science, democracy and the redistribution of expertise VL - 33 SP - 587 KW - geography KW - knowledge KW - science KW - sts AU - Whatmore, Sarah PY - 2009/10/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132509339841 ER -