Interaction, pluralism, and community in conflictual contexts

Abstract

Three concepts from Critical Contextual Empiricism are resonant in the context of “expert”-“lay” interactions: Interaction, pluralism, and community. These are broad concepts applied in many different contexts. I will engage with them here in several specific ways: 1. Their role in Critical Contextual Empiricism and in recent philosophical work on pluralism; 2. Their introduction in two contexts of expert-lay engagement in areas of center-margin social tension in northern Israel and 3. Reflections on the experience of engaging with those communities and the different ways they took up the concept.