Pollinating Collaboration

Diverse Stakeholders' Efforts to Build Experiments in the Wake of the Honey Bee Crisis

Bibliographic Data

ID5337315
AuthorsDaniel Lee Kleinman (0000-0002-8747-0851, Office of the Provost and Department of Sociology, Boston, MA, USA, corresponding author), Sainath Suryanarayanan (0000-0003-4680-7224, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA)
Year2020
Volume45
Issue4
Pages686-711
Publication date2020-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScience Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0162243919865962
OpenAlexW2965581565
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited22

We explored collaboration between scientists and nonscientists through a deliberative process in which stakeholders interested in the health challenges of honey bees gathered on four occasions over two years to design, carry out, and analyze a set of field experiments on honey bee health. We found that issues of trust and authority were crucial matters in constraining and enabling dialogue among our deliberants. Over the course of our deliberations, participants' trust for one another and appreciation of their respective interests grew, and differences in professional status appeared to play an increasingly less important role in shaping discussion. The field experiments that deliberants crafted and collectively organized over time became an engagement object that was crucial in altering the dynamics of trust and authority. We understand engagement objects as entities that stakeholders with diverse interests, experiences, and expertise collectively build over time to collectively solve overlapping, interacting problems

Biology · Honey bee · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Animal and Plant Science Education · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Computer Science · Insect and Pesticide Research · Ecology