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SUMMARY:Gatekeepers of the Greenland icesheet: The international politics 
 of knowledge production on climate change - Lin Alexandra Mortensgaard\, P
 hD candidate\, Danish Institute for International Studies &amp\; Departmen
 t of Political Sciences\, University of Copenhagen
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CONTACT:Emilie Canova
DESCRIPTION:This paper introduces the notion of ‘data gatekeepers’ to 
 add an interactional strand to Allan’s (2017) theorization on the co-pro
 duction between science and the state in the production of climate knowled
 ge. ‘Data gatekeepers’ lets us understand in a more dynamic perspectiv
 e how climate science happens in action\, and how some actors come to be i
 n positions of gatekeeping ‘raw’ climate data. By exploring the case o
 f glaciology\, more specifically ice core science in Greenland\, the paper
  makes two contributions. First\, with its broad conceptualization of what
  data gatekeepers might look like and how they exercise control over data\
 , it shows that the role of science and scientist in co-production is not 
 merely in “assembling” epistemic objects (Allan 2017\, 140). Ice core 
 scientists have created a scientific order ‘inside’ their scientific p
 roject which in many ways mimics key principles and institutions in intern
 ational politics. Second\, ‘data gatekeepers’ is more attentive to cha
 nge in the actors that do the data gatekeeping and how they do so\, while 
 it still pays attention to the longer historical trajectories that have le
 d some actors to be in gatekeeping positions. The paper is based on partic
 ipant observation and semi-structured interviews conducted during multi-ci
 ted fieldwork in key locations across Greenland\, Germany\, and Denmark. O
 verall\, the paper shows and argues that International Relations needs to 
 pay more attention to how climate science happens in action\, not only in 
 retrospect\, as this stage of co-production involves a number of important
  data gatekeepers with a number of political priorities that they infuse i
 nto climate science\, ultimately affecting what we know about climate chan
 ge.
LOCATION:Online (email organisers for details)
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