Initiatives that attribute expert status to ‘ordinary citizens’ proliferate in a range of societal realms and are often celebrated for ‘democratising expertise’: By tapping new sources of knowledge and participation simultaneously, ‘citizen’ or ‘lay expertise’ practices (such as citizen science, local knowledge or service user involvement) seem to provide responses to the contemporary decline of trust in political elites and traditional experts. Eva Krick’s talk deals with the role of these emerging actors in in public policy-making and knowledge production and discusses the democratic and epistemic credentials of this special kind of expertise.
Eva Krick. "Local knowledge, experts-by-experience and citizen science – On what grounds should lay experts be involved into policy-making?"
Eva Krick is a social scientist with an orientation towards political sociology, institutional analysis and democratic theory who is currently affiliated with the Political Science Department at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. She received her PhD from the University of Darmstadt, worked at Humboldt University Berlin and stayed as guest researcher at the Universities of Oslo, Aarhus, Edinburgh, and the National University of Singapore. Her research focuses inter alia on the role of knowledge and expertise in modern societies, citizen and stakeholder participation, the environment-society nexus and group decision-making.
Published Oct. 11, 2021 12:49 PM
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