Remaking participation : science, environment and emergent publics / edited by Jason Chilvers and Matthew Kearnes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chilvers, Jason, editor.

Kearnes, Matthew, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science and state--Citizen participation.

Science and state.

Technology and state--Citizen participation.

Technology and state.

Science--Decision making--Citizen participation.

Science.

Technology--Decision making--Citizen participation.

Technology.

Physical Description:

xviii, 295 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

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 rapid rise in new forms of public participation and citizen 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 between science and technology studies, political theory, geography, sociology and anthropology, the volume develops relational and co-productionist approaches to studying and intervening in spaces of participation. New empirical insights into the making, construction, circulation and effects 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 in science and democracy in more experimental, reflexive, anticipatory and responsible ways. This ground-breaking book is essential reading for scholars and students of participation across the critical social sciences and beyond, as well as those seeking to build more transformative participatory practices. Book jacket.

Contents:

Science, democracy and emergent publics / Jason Chilvers and Matthew Kearnes

Participation in the making : rethinking public engagement in co-productionist terms / Jason Chilvers and Matthew Kearnes

Engaging in a decentred world : overflows, ambiguities, and the governance of climate change / Alan Irwin and Maja Horst

Engaging the Mundane : Complexity and Speculation in Everyday Technoscience / Mike Michael

Ghosts of the machine : Publics, meanings and social science in a time of expert dogma and denial / Brian Wynne

State experiments with public participation : French nanotechnology, Congolese deforestation, and the search for national publics / Véra Ehrenstein and Brice Laurent

Technologies of participation and the making of technologised futures / Linda Soneryd

Participation as pleasure : Citizenship and science communication / Sarah Davies

The temporal choreographies of participation : Thinking innovation and society from a time-sensitive perspective / Ulrike Felt

An 'experiment with intensities' : village hall reconfigurings of the world within a new participatory collective / Claire Waterton and Judith Tsouvalis

Against blank slate futuring : Noticing obduracy in the city through experiential methods of public engagement / Cynthia Selin and Jathan Sadowski

Reflexively engaging with technologies of participation : constructive assessment for public participation methods / Jan-Peter Vo€

Remaking participation : towards reflexive engagement / Jason Chilvers and Matthew Kearnes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415857390

0415857392

9780415857406

0415857406

OCLC:

861212033