Citizen Science as Civic Science: New spaces for reflexive practice? Gwendolyn Blue Dept. of Geography University of Calgary CITIZEN SCIENCE IN ALBERTA: CHANGING PERSPECTIVES, BREAKING BARRIERS MacEwan University September 26 & 27, 2018
CitizenScienceasCivicScience:Newspacesforreflexivepractice?
GwendolynBlueDept.ofGeographyUniversityofCalgary
CITIZENSCIENCEINALBERTA:CHANGINGPERSPECTIVES,BREAKINGBARRIERSMacEwan University
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• Standardsensureconsistency• Oldpractices• Newtechnologies• Makepossiblewidelysharedknowledge
• Standardsaresocialtechnologies– outcomesofslowpainfulnegotiations• Standardsdiscipline
• “technicalsafetystandards(levelsofcontrolrequiredtoprotectagainstharm)andformsofsocialorder(institutionalizedresponsestocivicandpoliticalexpectations)operateinanysocietytosustainoneanother (Jasanoff,1988)
• Negotiationsoverstandardsmatter– towhatextentshouldcitizensbeapartofthis?
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Which path for citizen science?
Integration of citizens into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity to it
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‘practice of freedom’, the means by which men and women deal critically with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.
Paulo Friere, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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