Dr. Bart Penders, Maastricht University
Wednesday, October 23rd @ 17:00-19:00
MCTS Seminar Room 370, Augustenstraße 46
The distribution of credit, resources and opportunities in science is heavily skewed due to unjust practices and incentives, hardwired into science’s rules, guidelines and conventions. A way to resist such injustice is to break those rules. I will review instances of rule-breaking in science through repurposing the concept of civil disobedience in the context of academic authorship. In contrast to whistleblowing or conscientious objection, civil disobedience targets science’s injustice on a more systemic level. However, empirically, civil disobedience in science engenders uncertainties and disagreements on the local status of both the act and the label.