Naturvidenskabernes kanonisering. Forskere, erkendelser eller kulturarv

Forfattere

  • Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5617/nm.3279

Emneord (Nøkkelord):

cultural canon, science, Mode 1 and 2 knowledge production, Mode 2 society, agora, science museums, science centres

Sammendrag

This paper concerns recent official attempts to place science in Denmark within the context of a cultural canon. Based on differentiation between Mode 1 and 2 knowledge production, the paper points out that such attempts are highly contextualised and contingent on their different modes of application. Consequently, they entangle scientific expertise with other social skills and qualifications. Like science museums and science centres, they are a means of dealing with science in the public agora, i.e. the public sphere in which negotiations, mediations, consultations and contestations regarding science increasingly take place. Analysing the ambiguities and uncertainties associated with the recent official placing of science within an overall cultural canon for Denmark, this paper concludes that even though the agora embodies antagonistic forms of interaction, it might also lead the way to producing socially robust knowledge about science.

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