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CitizenScienceasCivicScience:Newspacesforreflexivepractice?

GwendolynBlueDept.ofGeographyUniversityofCalgary

CITIZENSCIENCEINALBERTA:CHANGINGPERSPECTIVES,BREAKINGBARRIERSMacEwan University

September26&27,2018

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Towhatextentshouldcitizensbepartofdebatesoverknowledge,standards,protocolsandpolicyapproaches?• Ifthegoalistoempowercitizens…

• 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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