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A New Culture of Truth? On the Transformation of Political Epistemologies since the 1960s in Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe

Truth has become a fiercely contested subject. Shaped by the experience of insecurity, the first half of the year 2020 has put the process of “truth in the making” on display in conditions of a global pandemic: quite often “In truth we trust” seems to be equated with “In science we trust” (Carolan & Bell 2003). At the same time, the truth people trust in seems to have multiplied: they do not have trust in the truth, but in a particular truth. The COVID-19 crisis, which is likely the first globally mediatised health crisis in history, allows us to observe the relations of societies and science in a condensed form. We can spot how “science in the making”1 is