Democratic situations / edited by Andreas Birkbak and Irina Papazu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Birkbak, Andreas, editor.

Papazu, Irina, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy.

Technology--Political aspects.

Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Mattering Press, 2022.

Summary:

Democratic Situations places the making and doing of democratic politics at the centre of relational research. The book turns the well-known sites of contemporary Euro-American democracy - elections, bureaucracies, public debates and citizen participation - into fluctuating democratic situations where supposedly untouchable democratic ideals are contested and warped in practice. The empirical cases demonstrate that democracy cannot be reduced to theoretical schemes of conflict, institutions or deliberation. Instead, they offer an urgently needed renewal of our understanding of democratic politics at a time when conventional ideas increasingly fail to capture current events such as Brexit, Trump and Covid19.

Contents:

Intro

List of Figures

Contributors

Acknowledgements

1 · Introducing democratic situations

Part I: The interfaces of technodemocra

2 · The Proposition: Compiling and negotiating democracy in a Danish municipality

3 · Technocratic activism: Environmental organisations, carbon markets and European bureaucracy

4 · Use yourself, kick yourself! Learning from a newspaper how (not) to do good public debate

Part II: Technosciences, democracy and situated enactments of participati

5 · Leaks and Overflows: Two contrasting cases of hybrid participation in environmental governance

6 · STS and democracy co-produced? The making of public dialogue as a technology of participation

7 · A democratic inquiry launched and lost: The Dutch national societal dialogue on nanotechnology

8 · Convene, represent, deliberate? Reasoning the democratic in embryonic stem cell research oversight committees

9 · The dark side of care? Wayward participants in Samsø's renewable energy transition

Part III: Reconfiguring democratic politics with new nonhuman acto

10 · Enlisting the body politic: Governmentalised technologies of participation in digital diplomacy

11 · Democratising software? Situating political campaigning technology in the UK's EU referendum

12 · The conceived child: Material politics in the Polish 'war on gender'.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-912729-13-X

1-912729-12-1

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access