ISBN:
9780190848941
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (593 pages)
Series Statement:
Oxford Handbooks Series
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Keywords:
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Abstract:
In The Oxford Handbook of Expertise and Democratic Politics, Gil Eyal and Thomas Medvetz have brought together a broad group of scholars who have engaged substantively and theoretically with debates regarding the nature of expertise and the social roles of experts to examines these areas within sociology and allied disciplines. The analyses take an historical and relational approach to the topic and are motivated by the sense that growing mistrust in experts represents a danger to democratic politics today. Bringing together investigations from social scientists, philosophers, and legal scholars into the political dimensions of expertise, this Handbook connects interdisciplinary work done in science and technology studies with the more classic concerns, topics, and concepts of sociologists of professions and intellectuals.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title -- Expertise and Democratic Politics -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- Part I. The Fraught Relations between Expertise and Democracy -- 2. Trust and Distrust of Scientific Experts and the Challenges of the Democratization of Science -- 3. The Third Wave and Populism: Scientific Expertise as a Check and Balance -- 4. The Meaning and Significance of Lay Expertise -- 5. On the Multiplicity of Lay Expertise: An Empirical and Analytical Overview of Patient Associations' Achievements and Challenges -- 6. The Political Climate and Climate Politics-Expert Knowledge and Democracy -- Part II. Trust -- 7. Mistrust of Experts by Populists and Politicians -- 8. A Regulatory State of Exception -- Part III. Objectivity -- 9. Experts in Law -- 10. Institutions of Expert Judgment: The Production and Use of Objectivity in Public Expertise -- 11. Expertise and Complex Organizations -- 12. Data and Expertise: Some Unanticipated Outcomes -- 13. Experts in the Regulation of Technology and Risk: An Ecological Perspective on Regulatory Science -- 14. Expert Power and the Classification of Human Difference -- Part IV. Jurisdictional Struggles -- 15. Battle of the Experts: The Strange Career of Meta-Expertise -- 16. Gender and Economic Governance Expertise -- 17. Field Theory and Expertise: Analytical Approaches and the Question of Autonomy -- Part V. Making the Future Present -- 18. Addressing the Risk Paradox: Exploring the Demand Requirements around Risk and Uncertainty and the Supply Side Limitations of Calculative Practices -- 19. Expertise and the State: From Planning to Future Research -- Part VI. The Transformation and Persistence of Professions -- 20. Professional Authority -- 21. The Postindustrial Limits of Professionalization -- 22. (In)expertise and the Paradox of Therapeutic Governance.
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