Possibilities of Enacting and Researching Epistemic Communities

Lorenz-Meyer, Dagmar

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“…It investigates the emergence, stabilisation and dynamics of research communities as related to the applications of their research, especially when such applications have to do with policy. In that, it joins up with recent attempts to unpack the making of epistemic communities (Akrich, 2010;Lorenz-Meyer, 2010;Meyer and Molyneux-Hodgson, 2010;Demortain, 2017).…”

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“…His focus was on what epistemic communities do, rather than on how they are made. Since then, the notion has been taken up widely, with various reinterpretations (Lorenz-Meyer, 2010). In particular, it has been applied to the analysis of climate change as a global political issue largely framed by scientific expertise (Godard, 2001).…”

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Organising Policy-Relevant Knowledge for Climate Action

Cointe

Cassen

Nadaï

2019

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Greenhouse gas emission scenarios are key in analyses of human interference with the climate system. They are mainly produced by one category of computer models: Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs). We analyse how IAM research organised into a community around the production of socio-economic scenarios during the preparation of the IPCC AR5 (2005-2014). We seek to describe the co-emergence of a research community, its instruments, and its domain of applicability. We highlight the role of the IPCC process in the making of the IAM community, showing how IAMs worked their way to an influent position. We then survey three elements of the repertoire that served to organise collective work on scenarios in interaction with the IPCC and the European Union, and which now frames the community and its epistemic practices. This repertoire needs to articulate epistemic practices with the pursuit of policy relevance, which shows how epistemic communities and patterns of co-production materialise in practical arrangements.

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Organising Policy-Relevant Knowledge for Climate Action

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Nadaï

2019

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“…For these purposes, it may be helpful to look at recent work within the social studies of science attempting to conceptualise epistemic differences between other types of expert communities (e.g. Kastenhofer 2007;Lorenz-Meyer 2009).…”

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“…In a wider perspective, it highlights the interdependency between epistemic communities and their practices, the epistemic objects created by and offered in these practices, and the role of such objects in connecting individuals to their wider field of expertise. By doing so, it provides opportunities for studying how knowledge practices stretch beyond the boundaries of local communities or work organisations, which is increasingly important to account for in a complex society based on a multiplicity of network structures, agencies and sites of knowledge production (Fenwick 2010;Knorr Cetina 2007;Lorenz-Meyer 2009). …”

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Epistemic practices and object relations in professional work

Nerland

Jensen

2012

Journal of Education and Work

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Professional practice is embedded in complex dynamics of knowledge that are present within, but reach beyond, local work. Knowledge is generated from a manifold of sources, and further developed and circulated in professional communities as practitioners are confronted with nonroutine problems. Drawing on the work of Karin Knorr Cetina and her associates, we suggest that a perspective of epistemic practices and object relations is useful for conceptualising the epistemic dimensions of professional work and learning. We consider how the perspective has inspired research on professional practice and use examples from the nursing profession to illustrate how it may be employed to examine: (i) how practitioners develop knowledge and practice by engaging with epistemic objects; (ii) how relations with objects give rise to community formation and (iii) how object relations link practitioners with a wider knowledge world. We argue that the perspective is productive for investigating knowledge practices as constituted by dynamic object relations across sites and levels in the expert culture. To further improve its potential in professional contexts, however, we suggest the need for the development of analytic concepts that differentiate between modes of epistemic engagement and account for the presence of multiple knowledge objects in professional practice.

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Making Sense of Community and Identity in Twenty-First Century Technoscience

Kastenhofer

Molyneux‐Hodgson

2021

Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook

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This introductory chapter begins with the empirical example of synthetic biology, a case that has challenged our own thinking, provoking us to re-address the concepts of scientific ‘community’ and ‘identity’ in contemporary technoscience. The chapter then moves on to a delineation of the conceptualisations of community and identity in past sociologies of science, highlighting open questions, promising avenues and potential shortcomings in explaining contemporary conditions. Following this, the individual contributions to this volume are presented, including their analyses on community and identity constellations and the related effects on the contemporary technosciences as institutions, practices and living spaces. This is achieved with a focus on common themes that come to the fore from the various contributions. In a final discussion, we take stock of our attempt at re-addressing community and identity in contemporary technoscientific contexts and discuss where this has brought us; which ambiguities could not be resolved and which questions seem promising starting points for further conceptual and empirical endeavour.

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Possibilities of Enacting and Researching Epistemic Communities

Cited by 6 publications

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Organising Policy-Relevant Knowledge for Climate Action

Organising Policy-Relevant Knowledge for Climate Action

Epistemic practices and object relations in professional work

Making Sense of Community and Identity in Twenty-First Century Technoscience

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