Expertise in the age of post-factual politics: An outline of reflexive strategies |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Centre for Advanced Security Theory (CAST), Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, CSS - Oester Farimagsgade 5, 1353 Kbh K, Denmark;2. The Department of Politics and International Relations, Cardiff University, United Kingdom;1. University Medical Center Göttingen, Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Humboldtallee 36, 37073 Göttingen, Germany;2. University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Department of Sociology, Kochstraße 4, 91054 Erlangen, Germany;2. CONICET, Argentina;4. University of Bern, Switzerland;1. Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, UMR MEPHI, Aix-Marseille Université, IRD, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille, Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée-Infection, 19-21 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13005, Marseille, France;2. The National Natural History Collections, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904, Jerusalem, Israel;1. ASI Science Data Center, c/o ASI, Via del Politecnico snc, 00133, Rome, Italy;2. INAF-OAR, Via Frascati n. 33, 00078, Monte Porzio Catone (RM), Italy;3. INAF-IAPS, Via del Fosso del Cavaliere n. 100, 00133, Rome, Italy |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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| Keywords: | Practical reflexivity Post-factual politics Gramsci Bourdieu Rorty |
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