Expertise in the Age of Post-Factual politics: An outline of reflexive strategies
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Expertise in the Age of Post-Factual politics : An outline of reflexive strategies. / Berling, Trine Villumsen; Bueger, Christian.
In: Geoforum, Vol. 84, 01.08.2017, p. 332-341.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Expertise in the Age of Post-Factual politics
T2 - An outline of reflexive strategies
AU - Berling, Trine Villumsen
AU - Bueger, Christian
PY - 2017/8/1
Y1 - 2017/8/1
N2 - What has become known as post-factual politics poses particular challenges to the role of expertise, calling for a new type of reflexivity able to inform scholarly strategies towards policy. Taking recent literature on the ‘practice turn’ as our point of departure, we argue for introducing a sense of ‘practical reflexivity’ that can provide guidance for the practice of scholars. Practical reflexivity focuses on the everyday practices of scholars rather than epistemic ideals or formal methodological rules. It directs our attention to the relation between academic and other practices. At this conjunction, several practical challenges arise. We discuss three major challenges and identify them as the epistemic, the autonomy and the performativity dilemmas. To seek answers to these, we explore the repertoire provided by three reflexive strategies outlined in neo-Gramscianism, Bourdieusian praxeology and pragmatism. The outcome is a tool for rethinking the relation between everyday practices of scholars and non-scholarly practices that may be usefully adopted in the current situation.
AB - What has become known as post-factual politics poses particular challenges to the role of expertise, calling for a new type of reflexivity able to inform scholarly strategies towards policy. Taking recent literature on the ‘practice turn’ as our point of departure, we argue for introducing a sense of ‘practical reflexivity’ that can provide guidance for the practice of scholars. Practical reflexivity focuses on the everyday practices of scholars rather than epistemic ideals or formal methodological rules. It directs our attention to the relation between academic and other practices. At this conjunction, several practical challenges arise. We discuss three major challenges and identify them as the epistemic, the autonomy and the performativity dilemmas. To seek answers to these, we explore the repertoire provided by three reflexive strategies outlined in neo-Gramscianism, Bourdieusian praxeology and pragmatism. The outcome is a tool for rethinking the relation between everyday practices of scholars and non-scholarly practices that may be usefully adopted in the current situation.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Post-factual politics
KW - practical reflexivity
KW - Bourdieu, Pierre
KW - Gramsci, Antonio
KW - Rorty
U2 - 10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.05.008
DO - 10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.05.008
M3 - Journal article
VL - 84
SP - 332
EP - 341
JO - Geoforum
JF - Geoforum
SN - 0016-7185
ER -
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