Material participation: technology, the environment and everyday publics

What is the role of things in political participation? This innovative book develops a fresh perspective on everyday forms of engagement, one that foregrounds the role of objects, technology and settings in relation to public involvement. It makes a distinctive contribution to debates about the role of things,technology and matter in democracy, but it also offers a detailed empirical analysis of contemporary devices of participation, such as smart electricity meters, demonstrational eco-homes and sustainable living gadgets. Through case studies of mundane technologies of environmental engagement, this book then develops a set of innovative concepts and methods for the social and political analysis of distinctively material forms of participation. .Material Participation. explores the next steps that might be taken in social studies of participation, technology and the environment, focusing our empirical, critical and creative attention squarely on the materials and devices of the public. . INDICE: List of Figures.Acknowledgements Preface.Objects of Participation.The (Dis)invention of the Material Public: Returns to American Pragmatism.Devising Engagement: Everyday Carbon Accounting and the Cost of Involvement.LivingExperiments: A 'Coming Out' for the Politics of Things .The Ecohome as Multifarious Instrument: Engagement, Innovation, Change.Re-distributing Problems of Participation.Notes.Bibliography.Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-230-23211-2
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 216
• Fecha Publicación: 27/07/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido