Professions and their expertise: Charting the spaces of ‘elite’ occupations

Kuus, Merje

doi:10.1177/0309132520950466

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“…Political geographers are increasingly paying critical attention to the role of technical and scientific expertise in such assemblages (e.g. Kuus, 2020), although it is only relatively recently that such work has engaged in explicit dialogue with work on the geographies of science. Donovan and Oppenheimer (2015b), for example, argue for the relevance of relational thinking in such contexts, using the case of volcanic risk assessment processes to conceptualise the science–policy interface topologically, as a ‘diffusive’ assemblage in which ‘both science and policy contain multiple overlapping networks of actors, objects and ideas that interact with one another through flows of responsibilities, attribution, identity and interpretation’ (Donovan and Oppenheimer, 2015b: 153).…”

Section: Liminal Boundariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Geographies of science and technology 1: Boundaries and crossings

Mahony

2020

Progress in Human Geography

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In a world of accelerating environmental crises, global pandemics and seemingly unstoppable datafication of anything that moves, thinks or feels, the politics of science and technology are pervasive. In this first of three progress reports on the geographies of science and technology, I home in on some definitional questions which an account of anything like a new or emerging subfield must necessarily concern itself. I examine how geographers have addressed the spatial effects of the making and unmaking of boundaries between science, technology and their various outsides. While work on historical and contemporary geographies of technoscience has often pulled in slightly different directions, I identify some promising convergences around questions of political economy and on the topic of scale as an emergent property of technoscientific practices. New attention is also falling on the spatial practices through which technoscience gets plugged into wider worlds, such as politics and policymaking, while geographers have also been busy disrupting, in a more experimental mode, conventional boundaries and hierarchies of technoscientific practice. Finally, the report examines recent and welcome efforts to convene new conversations around the geography of technology but cautions against the potential seduction of the new, the innovative and the ‘disruptive’. Important recent work in cultural geography has purposively unsettled assumed hierarchies of ‘high’ and ‘low’ tech, new and old, and suggests that any nascent subfield of ‘geography of technology’ needs to reflexively attend to how boundaries get drawn around ‘technology’, and with what effects.

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Section: Liminal Boundariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Geographies of science and technology 1: Boundaries and crossings

Mahony

2020

Progress in Human Geography

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“…Here we introduce the role of elite agency as a central thread running through the contributions. Notwithstanding the recent developments in elite studies (see Kuus 2020), we follow the common definition of "elites". Situated in structural processes (Kuus 2019, 164), these (public sector, political, minority or business) elites are "agents of change playing strategic roles in social processes" (Kuus 2020, 6).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Navigating in-between the EU and Russia

Dembińska

Smith

2021

Eurasian Geography and Economics

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This Special Issue examines the ways states, regions, de facto states and local actors situated in-between the EU and Russia cope with the competitive external pressure coming from the two regional powers. States, diverse groups and actors in this overlapping neighborhood navigate between varied economic and political integration projects and between different values, ideas and visions of society. This introductory article, first, contextualizes this "inside-out" perspective by presenting the nature of the current EU and Russian projects vis-à-vis the region, how they clash and how this puts regional actors in a state of "in-betweenness". Then, it unpacks the concept of "navigation" by outlining the ways local actors at different levels of domestic governance studied in the contributions to this Special Issue respond to and manage areas of contestation relating to issues such as citizenship politics, minority rights, and political and trade strategies. The role of elite agency serves as a central thread running across the contributions. Caught "in-between" Russia and the EU, domestic actors, be it at national or sub-national level, navigate while adjusting to the external pressures, negotiating and appropriating external discourses. In the process, constraints are often turned into opportunities for the local actors to exploit.

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“…Hence, when examining the production of evidence, we need to consider how geographical knowledge, both environmental and social, becomes the evidential base of legal processes (Brodsky, 2003;De Vorsey, 1980;Morgan and Bull, 2007). This readily strays into a set of debates concerning the implications of closer relationships between geographical inquiry and the evidential demands of legal processes, a set of reflections that intersects with questions relating to the identity and coherence of geography as a professional practice (Kuus, 2020;Ward, 2005).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Legal geography III: Evidence

Jeffrey

2020

Progress in Human Geography

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This report explores scholarship at the interface of geography and law engaging with the concept of evidence. As with the first two reports, this is not a summary of a predefined field, but rather a consideration of how ideas of what constitutes evidence have been differentially understood across geographical and cognate studies. The discussion spans work that has considered the formal barriers to the production of evidence at trials, the politics of silencing certain evidential practices and interpretive questions relating to claims of expertise.

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Professions and their expertise: Charting the spaces of ‘elite’ occupations

Cited by 19 publications

References 60 publications

Geographies of science and technology 1: Boundaries and crossings

Geographies of science and technology 1: Boundaries and crossings

Navigating in-between the EU and Russia

Legal geography III: Evidence

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