Dear all,
the following event might be of interest to some of you as it concerns
the question of how to do critical research based on
(de)constuctivist/post-positivist epistemologies in times of post-truth
and fake news. After all, post-structuralist/constructivist approaches
and epistemologies have been frequently accused of being "part of the
problem" by conceiving of facts and truths as constructed. So how can
they help to debunk fake news and secure the credibility of scientific
research in the age of post-truth?
There will be a lecture by Jef Huysmans (Queen Mary, London) entitled
"Truth or Post-truth? Let’s Go Credibility", followed by a comment by
Nortje Marres (Warwick) and a general discussion.
The abstract for the lecture is copied below and you can register here
for the event, which will take place on 25th March 5.30 to 6.00pm (CET):
https://www.gcr21.org/events/upcoming/truth-or-post-truth-lets-go-credibility
Truth or Post-truth? Let’s Go Credibility
The quest for scientific standards now operates against the background
of debates on 'fake news' and ‘post-truth’, which raise pressing and
perplexing questions for critical lines of thought. Starting from
debates in International Relations and Critical Security Studies, this
lecture proposes an approach that, instead of looking for rigorous
scientific standards for validating truth claims, conceptualizes
validity as practices of assembling credibility. Such an approach allows
for understanding validity as a socio-political rather than strictly
scientific accomplishment. The assembling of credibility combines the
transversal formation and circulation of credits and credentials with
disputes over credence and credulity. Developing such an understanding
of validity makes it possible to displace epistemic disputes about
‘(post-)truth’ with critical analyses of transversal practices of
knowledge creation, circulation, and accreditation.
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Juniorprofessor for Transnational Cooperation and Migration Research
Universität Duisburg-Essen
Fakultät für Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Institut für Soziologie
Lotharstraße 65
47057 Duisburg
latest publications:
Scheel, Stephan (2021): "The Politics of (Non)Knowledge
in the (Un)Making of Migration." Journal for Migration Research
Open Access: https://doi.org/10.48439/zmf.v1i2.113
Scheel, Stephan (2020): "Reconfiguring Desecuritization:
Contesting Expert Knowledge in the Securitization of Migration."
Geopolitics, published online first:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14650045.2020.1774749.
Glouftsios, Georgios & Scheel, Stephan (2020):
"An Inquiry into the Digitisation of Border and Migration Management:
Performativity, Contestation and Heterogeneous Engineering."
Third World Quaterly, published Online First:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01436597.2020.1807929.
Full list of publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephan_Scheel
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