Abstract

DELGADO, Ana. ¿Democratizar la Ciencia? Diálogo, reflexividad y apertura. Rev. iberoam. cienc. tecnol. soc. [online]. 2010, vol.5, n.15, pp.9-25. ISSN 1850-0013.

Within the political and academic discourses, dialogue, reflexivity and openness have been generally identified as defining features of 'science democratisation'. This paper focuses on those three features and on how they work and are intervined within the discurse and practices of science democratisation. In developing these arguments, the author takes three different perspectives: "Out there", looking at real proceses of science democratisation; "In-here", focusing on academic approaches; "From within", taking the position of a practitioner involved in the organisation of processes of science democratisation. In a broad sense, the paper argues that even when there is a shared discurse on science democratisation (defined in terms of dialogue, openness and reflexivity), there are multiple interpretations of it, and they are often controversial. A multiplicity of values and motivations is at the basis of differing ways of interpreting the discurse of science democratisation. In concrete practices, openness, dialogue and pluralism should work as practical regulative principles rather than rigid and predetermined goals.

Keywords : Democratisation; Science; Dialogue; Reflexivit; Openess.

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