On conveying and not conveying expertise
Rappert, Brian; Coopmans, Catelijne
Date: 7 August 2015
Journal
Social Studies of Science
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Publisher DOI
Abstract
This article attends to the movement between disclosing and non-disclosing in accounts of expertise. While referencing STS discussions about tacit knowledge (‘experts know more than they can say’) and the politics of non-disclosure (withholding can help as well as harm expert credibility), in the main it considers how experts move ...
This article attends to the movement between disclosing and non-disclosing in accounts of expertise. While referencing STS discussions about tacit knowledge (‘experts know more than they can say’) and the politics of non-disclosure (withholding can help as well as harm expert credibility), in the main it considers how experts move between conveying and not conveying in order to make their proficiencies recognized and accessible to others. The article examines this movement through a form that partakes in it, thus drawing attention to conventions and tensions in how authors make themselves accountable, and their subject matter available, to audiences. It thereby proposes to explore the possibilities of careful, and generative, non-disclosure as part of expert writing practices.
Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
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