Participatory Designs and Epistemic Authority in Knowledge Platforms for Sustainability
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12754145 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alejandro Esguerra (0000-0002-6635-6400, University of Potsdam, corresponding author), Sandra Van Der Hel (0000-0001-6552-9616, Sustainability Institute) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 130-151 |
| Publication date | 2020-11-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Environmental Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1526-3800 • E-ISSN: 1536-0091 |
| Publisher | The MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/glep_a_00573 |
| OpenAlex | W3104234406 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 46 |
Expert organizations increasingly adopt participatory strategies to strengthen their knowledge claims. We introduce the notion of knowledge platforms for sustainability to conceptualize expert organizations that not only rhetorically embrace but also actively attempt to institutionalize the norm of stakeholder participation in seeking authority in sustainability governance. In doing so, they encounter a tension between the ambition of stakeholder participation and conventional foundations of epistemic authority, such as scientific autonomy and consensus. Taking this tension as a starting point, we utilize a dynamic perspective on epistemic authority to investigate the contestations over institutional designs. We compare the institutionalization of participation in two knowledge platforms for sustainability—the Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, and the research platform Future Earth: Research for Global Sustainability. Our comparison reveals that institutional designs for participation open up the process of knowledge creation and evaluation. Yet, in seeking epistemic authority, knowledge platforms also reinforce existing power structures by redrawing boundaries that protect scientific autonomy and privilege relationships with elite actors
Autonomy · Business · Citizen journalism · Corporate governance · Custodians · Knowledge management · Norm (philosophy · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Stakeholder · Sustainability · Sustainability organizations · Sustainability science · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Computer Science · Law · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
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Diversifying Boundary Organizations
Knowledge production at the environment-security nexus
Effectively empowering
Excluding through inclusion
Expertise under uncertainty
Epistemic justice
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Working the boundary
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Global Environmental Assessments
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Rethinking biodiversity
Boundary organizations and environmental governance
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Bumping against the boundary
Toward two narratives of knowledge
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| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |