Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2025

Holding Experts Together?

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Contemporary socio-technical challenges such as digital transformation and climate change demand collaboration across diverse professional knowledge domains, including academic, technical, and policy-oriented fields. While interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches have long sought to integrate different forms of knowledge, their effectiveness remains uneven. This panel introduces interexpertise as a novel framework for rethinking collaboration, moving beyond conventional notions of expertise as academic, hierarchical and exclusive. Instead, interexpertise conceptualizes professional knowledge more broadly, encompassing distinct yet interdependent forms of specialized traditions and problem-solving approaches (Abbott).Building on interdisciplinarity (Barry & Born) and transdisciplinarity (Dedeurwaerdere), interexpertise shifts the focus from integration to negotiated authority, recognizing that consensus is neither always achievable nor desirable. It engages with STS — notably trading zones (Galison), boundary objects (Star & Griesemer), and boundary work (Gieryn) — while also drawing from the sociology of professions and organizational science. By foregrounding professional expertise beyond academia, this framework interrogates continuity in entrenched knowledge hierarchies, change in expertise negotiation processes, and critique of dominant models of collaboration.Through theoretical analysis and empirical cases in fields such as digital agriculture, environmental governance, and education, the panel explores how reframing collaboration as interexpertise reconfigures epistemic hierarchies and fosters both co-creation and conflict-resilient collaboration. Case studies will highlight procedural tools such as reflexive negotiation protocols and co-design frameworks that promote inclusive and context-sensitive knowledge integration. By examining both successful collaborations and enduring tensions, this panel advances STS debates on “holding together” and offers interexpertise as a framework for fostering resilience in complex socio-technical systems.

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hal-05256477 , version 1 (15-09-2025)

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Jongheon Kim, Karine Gauche. Holding Experts Together?. STS-CH 2025 Holding things together? Change, continuity, critique, Sep 2025, Zürich, Switzerland. ⟨hal-05256477⟩
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