A Cultural Approach to Politicization of Science: How the Forestry Coalition Challenged the Scientific Consensus in the Finnish News Media Debate on Increased Logging

Anna Kukkonen & Arttu Malkamäki (2024) Society & Natural Resources, 37(1). Open access, pp. 91-112 Abstract. Politicization of science is often described as the process of political actors overemphasizing scientific uncertainty to cast doubt on a scientific consensus. We argue that in addition to exploiting the inherent uncertainty of science, actors resort to so-called technical and national arguments to politicize science. Applying the pragmatic sociology of Boltanski and Thévenot and the ...