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Romancing science for global solutions: on narratives and interpretative schemas of science diplomacy

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, ISSN: 2662-9992, Vol: 7, Issue: 1
2020
  • 37
    Citations
  • 0
    Usage
  • 57
    Captures
  • 3
    Mentions
  • 0
    Social Media
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  • Citations
    37
    • Citation Indexes
      31
    • Policy Citations
      6
      • Policy Citation
        6
  • Captures
    57
  • Mentions
    3
    • References
      2
      • Wikipedia
        2
    • News Mentions
      1
      • News
        1

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Article Description

In recent years, the concept of science diplomacy has gained remarkable ground in public policy. Calling for closer cooperation between actors from science and foreign policy, it is ocediplomacy.org/editorial/2017/optimism-pessimism-and-science-diplomacyften being promulgated as a hitherto neglected catalyst for international understanding and global change. On what grounds science diplomacy entertains these high hopes, however, has remained unclear, and—as a blind spot—unaddressed in a discourse mostly shaped by policy practitioners. Recognizing that the discourse on science diplomacy is still unspecific about how its means and ends should fit together and be comprehended, we reconstruct the concept and its discourse as a materialization of actors’ interpretative schemas and shared assumptions about the social world they constantly need to make sense of. Science diplomacy is presented as a panacea against looming threats and grand challenges in a world facing deterioration. The prerequisite for such a solutionistic narrative is a simplified portrait of diplomacy in need of help from science that—romanticized in this discourse—bears but positive properties and exerts rationalizing, collaborative and even pacifying effects on a generic international community in its collective efforts to tackle global challenges. We conclude that these interpretative schemas that idealize and mythify science as overall collaborative, rationalizing and complexity-reducing are problematic. First, because the discourse misconceives ideals and norms for real and will therefore disappoint social expectations, and second, because science is likely to be instrumentalised for political purposes.

Bibliographic Details

Charlotte Rungius; Tim Flink

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Business, Management and Accounting; Arts and Humanities; Social Sciences; Psychology; Economics, Econometrics and Finance

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