Managing the Experience of Evidence
Managing the Experience of Evidence
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管理证据经验
DOI：
10.1177/0162243910376158
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发表时间：
2011
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通讯作者：
Joshua Reno
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作者：
Joshua Reno
本文探讨了与政府资助的气候变化减缓相关的技术环境政治。它聚焦于英国的新技术示范项目，该项目通过向八个实验项目提供国家援助来测试“绿色”废物处理的“可行性”，这些项目承诺将城市垃圾从垃圾填埋场转移，并减少大气中的温室气体排放。文章研究了这些示范场地是如何布局和呈现的，以产生无争议且公众可获取的证据和经验形式，并最终为全国的环境政策和规划决策提供信息。如同在实验科学中一样，这个过程需要一些人以规范的方式为示范项目作证。无论是通过附属的第三方顾问对技术性能相关事实的推断，还是对向公众开放的游客中心的精心安排，使示范项目公开都涉及对其解读和认知方式的控制。然而，废物管理设施不稳定的公开性也滋生了非官方的说法。我将这些反证行为称为不仅可能对从示范项目中收集的官方证据提出质疑，它们还可能对这类政府举措所依据的对技术的理解构成挑战。
This article explores the technoenvironmental politics associated with government-sponsored climate change mitigation. It focuses on England’s New Technologies Demonstrator Programme, established to test the “viability” of “green” waste treatments by awarding state aid to eight experimental projects that promise to divert municipal waste from landfill and greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. The article examines how these demonstrator sites are arranged and represented to produce noncontroversial and publicly accessible forms of evidence and experience and, ultimately, to inform environmental policy and planning decisions throughout the country. As in experimental science, this process requires that some bear witness to the demonstrators, but in a disciplined way. Whether through the extrapolation of facts about technical performance by affiliated third-party consultants, or the orchestration of visitor centers open to the general public, making the demonstrators public involves controlling the ways in which they are interpreted and perceived. However, the unstable publicity of waste management facilities proliferates unofficial accounts as well. These acts of counterwitnessing, as I refer to them, not only potentially dispute the official evidence collected from the demonstrators, they also can pose a challenge to the understanding of technology upon which such government initiatives are based.