Between the technical and the political: science and technology studies and the debate on expertise
Abstract The article examines the debate on expertise that mobilized the field of science studies (Science, Technology and Society/ STS) in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. It called into question not only the research agendas and theoretical frameworks of the field, but also the political and social implications of the work conducted by scholars within its realm. The matter of expertise becomes particularly relevant both in situations where greater social participation in the public agenda involving technical knowledge is demanded and in the face of denialisms that attack the credibility of science. What role should STS, committed to highlighting the links between science and society, play in these scenarios? How to recognize the authority of scientists without reiterating the old positivist conceptions about science? We analyze two key moments in which the field focused on these issues: the discussion raised by the normative Sociology of expertise proposed by Harry Collins and Robert Evans in the early 2000s and the debates on ‘post-truth’ triggered in 2016, amid the rise of the new far-right. An examination of these discussions is necessary considering the contemporary challenges, both academic and political, involving the strengthening of scientific institutions as a crucial dimension of democracy.
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Collins, H., & Evans, R. (2002). The Third Wave of Science Studies: Studies in Expertise and Experience. Social Studies of Science, 32(2), 235-296.
Collins, H., & Evans, R. (2003, jun.). King Canute Meets the Beach Boys: Responses to The Third Wave. Social Studies of Science, 33(3), 435-452.
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Collins, H., Evans, R., & Weinel, M. (2017). STS as Science or Politics? Social Studies of Science, 47(4), 580-586.
Collins, H., Evans, R., Durant, D., & Weinel, M. (2020). Experts and the Will of the People. Society, Populism and Science. Palgrave Macmillan.
Durant, D. (2011). Models of Democracy in Social Studies of Science. Social Studies of Science, 41(5), 691-714.
Eyal, G. (2019). The Crisis of Expertise. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Felt, U., Fouché, R., Miller, C. A., & Smith-Doerr, L. (Eds.). (2016). The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies (4ª ed.). Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Fonseca, P. (2021, out.-dez.). Negacionismo, desinformação e Estudos Sociais da Ciência e Tecnologia: amostra de um debate emergente. Boletim CTS em Foco, 5, 8-17
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Fuller, S. (2016a, 15 de dez.). Science Has Always Been a Bit “Post-truth”. The Guardian. Recuperado em 1º de novembro de 2022, de https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/ 2016/dec/15/sciencehas-always-been-a-bit-post-truth.
Fuller, S. (2016b). Embrace the Inner Fox: Post-truth as the STS Symmetry Principle Universalized. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective. Recuperado em 1º de novembro de 2022, de https://social-epistemology.com/2016/12/25/embrace-the-inner-fox-post-truth-as-the-sts-symmetry-principle-universalized-steve-fuller/.
Fuller, S. (2017a). Is STS All Talk And No Walk? EASST Review, 36(1).
Fuller, S. (2017b). What are You Playing At? On the Use and Abuse of Games in STS. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 6(9), 39-49. Recuperado em 30 de outubro de 2022, de https://social-epistemology.com/2017/08/21/what-are-you-playing-at-on-the-use-and-abuse-of-games-in-sts-steve-fuller/.
Harambam, J. (2020). The Corona Truth Wars: Where Have All the STS’ers Gone When We Need Them Most? Science & Technology Studies, 33(4), 60-67.
Jasanoff, S. (2003). Breaking the Waves in Science Studies: Comment on H. M. Collins and Robert Evans, “The Third Wave of Science Studies”. Social Studies of Science, 33(3), 389-400.
Jasanoff, S. (Ed.) (2004). States of Knowledge: The Co-Production of Science and Social Order. Londres: Routledge.
Jasanoff, S., & Simmet, H. R. (2017). No Funeral Bells: Public Reason in a “Post-truth” Age. Social Studies of Science, 47(5), 751-770.
Kropf, S. P., Cerqueira, E., Lopes, T. C., & Marcondes, S. (2024). Modulando o tempo pandêmico: a ciência e a urgência da covid-19. Tempo, 30(1).
Kuhn, T. (1962). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Latour, B. (1987). Ciência em ação. São Paulo: Editora Unesp.
Latour, B. (2004). Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern. Critical Inquiry, 30(2), 225-248.
Latour, B. (2007). Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory. Nova York: Oxford University Press.
Lynch, M. (2003). Editorial. Social Studies of Science, 33(3), 325.
Lynch, M. (2017). STS, Symmetry and Post-truth. Social Studies of Science, 47(4), 593-599.
Miguel, J. C. (2021, out.-dez.). Pós-verdade ou produção da ignorância? Boletim CTS em Foco, 5, 54-59.
Mitre, M. (2016). As relações entre ciência e política, especialização e democracia: a trajetória de um debate em aberto. Estudos Avançados, 30(87).
Oreskes, N., & Conway, E. M. (2011). Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. Nova York: Bloomsbury.
Prasad, A. (2022). Anti-science Misinformation and Conspiracies: COVID–19, Post-truth, and Science & Technology Studies (STS). Science, Technology & Society, 27(1), 88-112.
Rip, A. (2003). Constructing Expertise in a Third Wave of Science Studies? Social Studies of Science, 33(3), 419-34.
Shapin, S., & Schaffer, S. (1985). Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Silva, V. C., & Videira, A. A. P. (2020, dez.) Como as ciências morrem? Os ataques ao conhecimento na era da pós-verdade. Caderno Brasileiro de Ensino de Física, 37(3), 1041-1073.
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Sismondo, S. (2017b). Casting a Wider Net: a Reply to Collins, Evans and Weinel. Social Studies of Science, 47(4), 587-592.
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Wynne, B. (1996). May the Sheep Safely Graze? A Reflexive View of the Expert-Lay Knowledge Divide. In S. Lash, B. Szerszynski, & B. Wynne (Eds). Risk, Environment and Modernity: Towards a New Ecology (pp. 44-83). Londres: Sage.
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Lopes, T. da C., Cerqueira, E., & Kropf, S. P. (2023). Between the technical and the political: science and technology studies and the debate on expertise. Revista De Estudios Brasileños, 10(21), 85–102. https://doi.org/10.14201/reb2023102185102
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