Hebe Vessuri is an Argentine social anthropologist. In 2017, she was recognized with the John Desmond Bernal Prize Award from the Society for Social Studies of Science.
In history, the relationship between democracy and politics appears at least involved in tensions. And in connection with the place of science in liberal democratic policy, tensions are fundamental and endemic. In practice, experts often carry the burden of, in Jasanoff’ terms, a political agenda that is either honestly declared or else is presented as “value-free facts”. The position of experts differs from that of the public in general. The nature and the role of experts and of expert judgment is today under heavy scrutiny.
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