TY - CHAP
T1 - Introduction
T2 - Evidence Critique and Contestation as a Challenge in Academia and Society
AU - Zachmann, Karin
AU - Jukola, Saana
AU - Sparschuh, Olga
AU - Bondio, Mariacarla Gadebusch
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 selection and editorial matter, Karin Zachmann, Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio, Saana Jukola, and Olga Sparschuh; individual chapters, the contributors.
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - Evidence is not only an extremely important but also highly contested resource in democratically constituted knowledge societies. As a constitutive basis of knowledge and a guarantor of credibility and validity, evidence serves to justify knowledge claims and decisions. However, the flipside of its rise in importance is the phenomenon of increasing evidence contestation which is the focus of this book. In the Introduction, the editors lay some conceptual groundwork and outline how processes of evidence criticism have emerged. In this context, evidence and its contestation are discussed as contested concepts in themselves. Commonalities, differences and consequences of evidence criticism and contestation in academia and society are among the important questions that the authors address. Referring to the individual chapters, the Introduction outlines how actors in both, science and society at large, contribute to and deal with dissent and what this means for knowledge societies.
AB - Evidence is not only an extremely important but also highly contested resource in democratically constituted knowledge societies. As a constitutive basis of knowledge and a guarantor of credibility and validity, evidence serves to justify knowledge claims and decisions. However, the flipside of its rise in importance is the phenomenon of increasing evidence contestation which is the focus of this book. In the Introduction, the editors lay some conceptual groundwork and outline how processes of evidence criticism have emerged. In this context, evidence and its contestation are discussed as contested concepts in themselves. Commonalities, differences and consequences of evidence criticism and contestation in academia and society are among the important questions that the authors address. Referring to the individual chapters, the Introduction outlines how actors in both, science and society at large, contribute to and deal with dissent and what this means for knowledge societies.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85158955214&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781003273509-1
DO - 10.4324/9781003273509-1
M3 - Foreword/postscript
AN - SCOPUS:85158955214
SN - 9781032219103
SP - 1
EP - 30
BT - Evidence Contestation Dealing with Dissent in Knowledge Societies
PB - Taylor and Francis
ER -