Knowledge As Power in Law and Science

Harvard HKS

How is expertise produced, disseminated, controlled and challenged? How do experts combine knowledge, common-sense, analytics, argument, lifestyle, character? How does expertise write itself into power--or submission? Through what moves does expertise become rulership? What is the work of disciplinary formations and the professions in reproducing practices of knowledge-making and professional judgment? How ought one to go about mapping the political implications of expertise, and how…