Chilvers / Kearnes Remaking Participation

Science, Environment and Emergent Publics
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-135-08463-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 314 Seiten

Changing relations between science and democracy – and controversies over issues like climate change, energy transitions, genetically modified organisms, and smart technologies - have led to a proliferation of new spaces of public participation and engagement.

While most existing approaches adopt fixed meanings of ‘participation’ and are consumed by questions of method or critiquing the possible limits of democratic engagement, this book offers new insights that rethink public engagements with science, innovation and environmental issues as diverse, emergent and in the making. Bringing together leading scholars on science and democracy, working at the interface between science and technology studies, political theory, geography, sociology and anthropology, the volume develops relational and co-productionist approaches to understanding and intervening in spaces of participation. New empirical insights into the making, construction and circulation of participation across cultures are illustrated through examples ranging from climate change and energy to nanotechnology and mundane technologies, from institutionalised deliberative processes to citizen-led innovation and activism, and from the global north to global south. This new way of seeing participation opens up alternative paths for reconfiguring and remaking participation in more experimental, reflexive, anticipatory and responsible ways.

This ground breaking book is essential reading for scholars of participation across the critical social sciences and beyond, as well as those seeking to build more transformative participatory practices.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chilvers, Jason

Kearnes, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Science, democracy and emergent publics Jason Chilvers and Matthew Kearnes Part 1 Rethinking participation 2. Participation in the making: rethinking public engagement in co-productionist terms Jason Chilvers and Matthew Kearnes 3. Engaging in a decentred world: overflows, ambiguities, and the governance of climate change Alan Irwin and Maja Horst 4. Engaging the Mundane: Complexity and Speculation in Everyday Technoscience Mike Michael 5. Ghosts of the machine: Publics, meanings and social science in a time of expert dogma and denial Brian Wynne Part 2 Making participation 6. State experiments with public participation: French nanotechnology, Congolese deforestation, and the search for national publics Véra Ehrenstein and Brice Laurent 7. Technologies of participation and the making of technologised futures Linda Soneryd 8. Participation as pleasure: Citizenship and science communication Sarah Davies 9. The temporal choreographies of participation: Thinking innovation and society from a time-sensitive perspective Ulrike Felt Part 3 Remaking Participation 10. An ‘experiment with intensities’: village hall reconfigurings of the world within a new participatory collective Claire Waterton and Judith Tsouvalis 11. Against blank slate futuring: Noticing obduracy in the city through experiential methods of public engagement Cynthia Selin and Jathan Sadowski 12. Reflexively engaging with technologies of participation: constructive assessment for public participation methods Jan-Peter Voß 13. Remaking participation: towards reflexive engagement Jason Chilvers and Matthew Kearnes

Über Autor(innen)

Jason Chilvers is Senior Lecturer and Chair of the Science, Society and Sustainability Research Group in the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK

Matthew Kearnes is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Languages, University of New South Wales, Australia