Article ID: CBB482899629

Knowledge and Justice: A Comment (2019)

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Epistemic justice projects are now one of the most important sites of science studies scholarship and engagement. The papers in this collection make clear that we divorce science and technology from questions of power at our peril, if we are to understand what generates and remediates the inequalities that past and extant knowledge creation and distribution systems have wrought. Expertise and experts are the conceptual anchors for these articles, and they offer quite different perspectives on whether expertise and counter-expertise are the terrain on which epistemic justice struggles ought to be fought. Some challenge older conceptualizations of expertise as narrow and specific, providing new evidence and frameworks for treating epistemes that are heterogeneous and boundary-crossing as means to justice; others demonstrate that acting on concerns as purely technical matters can provide strategic advantages; and others make clear that formally trained experts are neither welcome nor visible in technopolitical justice struggles. Reflected in the innovative approaches that the papers take, a second major contribution of the collection is to show why inclusion is itself a just goal, and a means to uncovering stories of injustice, technical innovations, and visions of the future that can offer new pathways to justice. The collection inspires new directions in sts, including which stories, and by whom, matter and why, and how attention to innovation can be balanced with attention to the extant, and to history.

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Article Philip R. Egert; Barbara L. Allen (2019) Knowledge Justice: An Opportunity for Counter-expertise in Security vs. Science Debates. Science as Culture (pp. 351-374). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Faigman, David L.
Allen, Barbara L.
Woods, Nathan D.
Blim, Michal
Egert, Philip R.
Moore, Sharlissa
Concepts
Science and law
Science and politics
Authorities; experts
Expertise
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Social justice
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
Modern
20th century
19th century
18th century
Places
United States
Germany
Colombia
Egypt
Denmark
China
Institutions
Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
United States. Supreme Court
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