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What Makes Us Experts? (part 1 of 3)
What makes us, a couple of professors at modern British universities, ‘experts’ on anything? What makes anyone an acknowledged expert on anything, and why does it matter? Why does the political right hate ‘experts’, and are they correct to do so? And what should radicals, socialists and democrats think about the role of ‘intellectuals’ in our movements?
In the first of a three-part series, Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert start to explore the question of what counts as ‘knowledge’ or ‘expertise’ in our society, where the idea of…
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