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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2023] Industrially Produced Facts? Questions of Knowledge and Evidence in Energy and Environmental Debates of the 1970s and 1980s
DESCRIPTION:Since the early 1970s, a number of hitherto seemingly incontrovertible "facts" - such as economic growth orientation, scientific and technological progress, but also political and social ability to plan and control - began to show a new fragility in the Western industrialized countries. New actors such as environmental and consumer protection groups, but also newly founded regulatory agencies increasingly pushed the representatives of established interests in industry, politics and science onto the defensive. These reacted, among other things, by stepping up their efforts to produce scientific knowledge. These new bodies of knowledge, which have so far only been studied in a very fragmentary way, will be the focus of this section. In doing so, we are confronted with a number of questions:
 
How was the new knowledge used, how and by whom was it received and/or appropriated? How did it relate to the new "counter-knowledge" of the critics of the status quo (cf. Stadler/Güttler 2020)?
 
What role did "anti-alternative" and industry-affiliated knowledge producers play in the development and dissemination of new forms of knowledge and evidence practices such as computer simulations, scenario analysis, or probabilistic risk research? How did they deal with the uncertainty and fragility inherent in these forms of knowledge?
 
To what extent is this "knowledge" in the true sense of the word, or rather tactically motivated interventions with a scientific veneer, as contemporary critics claimed? Can the "Merchants-of-Doubt" -thesis (Oreskes/Conway, 2010) be confirmed for other national and thematic contexts?
 
With the help of selected case studies, the section aims, first, to contribute to the study of the processes of change in the history of knowledge and science in the 1970s and 1980s and second, to contribute to a better understanding of the energy, resource and environmental debates of the period.
Der Beitrag Industrially Produced Facts? Questions of Knowledge and Evidence in Energy and Environmental Debates of the 1970s and 1980s erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2023.
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