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Paper short abstract

Inquiring into critiques and appropriate responses in the Dutch nitrogen controversy, I explore how these interactions can be telling of how science and democracy coproduce. For this, I study how publics' epistemic demands and scientists' epistemic conventions stand in relation with one another.

Paper long abstract

In this presentation, I explore key critiques directed at science and its representatives that became articulated in the agricultural-environmental controversy on nitrogen in the Netherlands by relying on an analysis of (online) newspaper articles between 2019 and 2025. Furthermore, I contextualise these critiques with appropriate responses relevant technoscientific actors or institutions. This latter part relies on ongoing field work in a scientific unit that is implicated in these critiques. In doing so, I explore how the articulation of epistemic demands by concerned publics and the epistemic conventions of scientists stand in relation with one another. Understanding the interaction of articulation-response as moments in which the ontological and the normative co-stabilise, I explore how such interactions can be telling of how science and democracy become coproduced.