Humanities & Social Sciences
Controversies: a Guide
by FORCCAST, Clémence Seurat, Thomas Tari
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In response to the environmental and health issues we are facing, and the unprecedented frequency of technological innovation, experts clash, contradict each other, or admit they have no answers. Controversies erupt much more frequently than new knowledge can be produced. In this age of uncertainty, when decision-making must often come before knowledge, we have to come up with new ways of thinking and acting together. Mapping controversies provides a framework for this. This pedagogical practice, fundamental in the social sciences, teaches us to examine the world without ever separating science, techniques, and society. It teaches us to take into account all perspectives and the context in which they are expressed, to conduct a close analysis of the ecosystem in which an object emerges, an invention or a phenomenon. To find our way through uncertainty, we must first immerse ourselves in complexity. This book shows us how, by relying on examples of contemporary controversies carefully chosen for their diversity and the wealth of their teaching.
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With a foreword by Bruno Latour
Author Biography
The Forccast program is a laureate of the call for projects on Initiatives of Excellence in Innovative Training (Initiatives d’excellence en formations innovantes) of the French National Agency for Research.
Forccast includes fourteen higher education and research institutions. Among its partners are institutions from both higher and lower education, specialized in social and engineering sciences in France and abroad. SciencesPo hosts the Forccast project.
Forccast’s activities focus on the interactions between science, technology and society (STS). The program’s goal is to train different audiences on the exploration of contemporary controversies, which emanate from the massive proliferation of scientific and technical innovations.
In order to do so, Forccast proposes two complementary methods, both of which transform students into agents of their own training: controversy mapping and simulation of negotiation and debate. These experiences aim to teach students on how to research, think critically and express themselves in situations of uncertainty.
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- Publisher Presses de Sciences Po
- Publication Date January 2021
- Orginal LanguageFrench
- ISBN/Identifier 9782724627107
- Publication Country or regionFrance
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 28 EUR
- Pages320
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleControverses, Mode d'emploi
- Edition1
- Copyright Year2021
- Dimensions20,5 x 16,5 cm
- Illustration60 photographs and diagrams, grey scale
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