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P308


Remaking participation and democracy 
Convenors:
Jason Chilvers (University of East Anglia)
Elliot Honeybun-Arnolda (University of East Anglia)
Jan-Peter Voß (RWTH Aachen University)
Matthew Kearnes (University of New South Wales)
Phedeas Stephanides (University of East Anglia)
Helen Pallett (University of East Anglia)
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Format:
Combined Format Open Panel
Location:
HG-12A00
Sessions:
Wednesday 17 July, -, -, -
Time zone: Europe/Amsterdam

Short Abstract:

This Combined Format Open Panel brings together constructivist STS scholarship on 'participation' and 'democracy' as objects of study, experimentation and reflexive intervention, ranging from academic paper presentations to practical demonstrations of experiments in participation and democracy.

Long Abstract:

Moving beyond an emphasis on science and technology as traditionally known, STS scholarship is increasingly turning to consider 'participation' and 'democracy' as objects of study, experimentation, and intervention in their own right. Rather than being realist pre-given categories, such work sees the objects, actors and formats of participation and democracy as co-produced through the performance of situated socio-material experiments 'in the making'. Remaking the realities of participation and democracy in this way leads to new ways of studying diverse democratic experiments in situ, as they become technologised and circulate, and how they interrelate in wider systems, ecologies, and constitutions. It is also bringing forward new forms of interventionist-STS that deliberately attempt to experiment and remake participation and democracy in practice in ways imbued with co-productionist sensibilities such as reflexivity, humility, diversity and responsibility.

This Combined Format Open Panel brings together these strands of work around the following themes:

•Experiments in participation and democracy: situated studies of through to reflexive interventions in diverse practices that engage publics in collective public issues, articulate representations of the people's (demos') collective will, and so on.

•Technologies of participation and democracy: studies of and reflexive interventions in the sciences, innovations and expertises of participation and democracy, including their representations, circulations and (ir)responsibilities.

•Ecologies of participation and democracies: studies of the diversities and interrelations between practices of participation and democracy, through to methods for mapping participation, publics, and public issues (whether digital or otherwise).

•(Re)constituting participation and democracy: theories and studies of systems, infrastructures, and constitutions of participation and democracy and reflexive engagements with their possible remaking.

The panel includes three paper presentation sessions followed by a 're-making and doing' workshop featuring practical demonstrations of experiments in participation and democracy.

Accepted contributions:

Session 1 Wednesday 17 July, 2024, -
Session 2 Wednesday 17 July, 2024, -
Session 3 Wednesday 17 July, 2024, -