From Expert Communities to Epistemic Arrangements: Situating Expertise in International Relations
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From Expert Communities to Epistemic Arrangements : Situating Expertise in International Relations. / Bueger, Christian.
The Global Politics of Science and Technology - Vol. 1: Concepts from International Relations and Other Disciplines. Vol. 1 Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer, 2014. p. 39-54 (Global Power Shift: Comparative Analysis and Perspectives).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - From Expert Communities to Epistemic Arrangements
T2 - Situating Expertise in International Relations
AU - Bueger, Christian
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The role and functions of expertise in international politics is, since decades, a core research theme. This chapter outlines a history of how the relation between science and international politics has been approached through the lenses of expertise. My intention is to offer a heuristic device. I argue that the debate can be structured in three generations. A first generation is interested in experts as actors that have a causal influence on international politics. The second generation scrutinizes discourses of expertise and their constitutional role in making the international. And the third generation concentrates on practices of expertise and the way these perform the epistemic arrangements of the international. To think about the study of expertise in the frame of three generations each offering different insights and carrying advantages and problems provides not only a practical tool for sorting ideas, but clarifies what one ‘buys in’ by following a specific generation.
AB - The role and functions of expertise in international politics is, since decades, a core research theme. This chapter outlines a history of how the relation between science and international politics has been approached through the lenses of expertise. My intention is to offer a heuristic device. I argue that the debate can be structured in three generations. A first generation is interested in experts as actors that have a causal influence on international politics. The second generation scrutinizes discourses of expertise and their constitutional role in making the international. And the third generation concentrates on practices of expertise and the way these perform the epistemic arrangements of the international. To think about the study of expertise in the frame of three generations each offering different insights and carrying advantages and problems provides not only a practical tool for sorting ideas, but clarifies what one ‘buys in’ by following a specific generation.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - expertise
KW - epistemic communities
KW - discourse theory
KW - practice theory
KW - sociology of the discipline of international relations
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-55007-2_2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-55007-2_2
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-3-642-55006-5
VL - 1
T3 - Global Power Shift: Comparative Analysis and Perspectives
SP - 39
EP - 54
BT - The Global Politics of Science and Technology - Vol. 1
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin, Heidelberg
ER -
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