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Record Nr.

UNINA9910842300903321

Titolo

Democratic situations / / edited by Andreas Birkbak and Irina Papazu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK : , : Mattering Press, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

1-912729-13-X

1-912729-12-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 pages)

Soggetti

Democracy

Technology - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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'.



Sommario/riassunto

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.