#10303. Science, Data, and the Struggle for Standing in Environmental Governance

October 2026publication date
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Abstract:
Here, we explore how people entangled in natural resource conflicts employ and discuss data. We draw on ethnographic research with cases that illustrate how data, through the scientization of environmental governance, can become a means of empowerment and disempowerment: empowering those with access and influence over data and disempowering those without such access. In both locales, people find it necessary to perform their expertise, justify the veracity of their data, and discount the data held by others if they wish to achieve or maintain standing. We call this “datamentality” and draw lessons from these cases for how we can structure environmental governance such that it benefits from robust data and science while meeting the needs of individuals, avoiding or managing power struggles, and protecting the rights of all involved.
Keywords:
Best available science; conflict; data; governance; governmentality; natural resources; power; scientization

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