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urn:uuid:4d3289a8-61e7-47b4-b94c-9f30059d5a4e 03 01 01 urn:uuid:4d3289a8-61e7-47b4-b94c-9f30059d5a4e 15 9781912729128 06 10.28938/9781912729302 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ 01 01 Democratic Situations 1 B01 21 0000-0001-9283-1677 Andreas Birkbak 2 B01 21 0000-0002-4178-3676 Irina Papazu First edition. 01 eng 00 274 03 10 POL000000 01 06 03 00 Democratic Situations challenges researchers and students in Science & Technology Studies and related fields to treat democracy as an empirical phenomenon. This means leaving behind off-the-shelf theoretical notions of democracy that may have travelled into STS unexamined. The alternative strategy pursued in this volume is to pay as much analytical attention to the study of democratic politics as STS has previously offered to familiar topics of science and technology.This timely collection of empirical stories and conceptual inventions leads the way by showing how the making and doing of democracy can be placed at the centre of relational research. The book turns the well-known sites of contemporary Euro-American participatory democracy, such as elections, bureaucracies, public debate and citizen participation, into fluctuating democratic situations where supposedly untouchable democratic ideals are shaped, contested and warped in practice. The fact that Euro-American participatory democracy is often upheld as an ideal for the rest of the world makes it all the more important to study how it is a situated, distributed, material, emergent, heterogenous, fragile and at times faltering figure and project.Through situated analyses, the authors demonstrate that democracy cannot be reduced to theoretical ideals and schemes of conflict, institutions, or deliberation. Instead, the volume offers an urgently needed empirically driven renewal of our understanding of democratic politics in a time when conventional ideas increasingly fail to capture current events such as Brexit, Trump and Covid19.The twelve chapters are organised into three sections. The first part, entitled Interfaces of technodemocracy, focuses on how democratic politics is co-shaped by its interfaces with more or less rigid institutions and bureaucracies. The second section, Technosciences, democracy and situated enactments of participation, emphasises the relationships between science and public participation. The third part called Reconfigurations of democratic politics with new nonhuman actors focuses on the role of material objects, especially new digital technologies, in democratic politics. 04 00 List of Figures Contributors Acknowledgements 1) Introducing democratic situations Andreas Birkbak and Irina Papazu PART I: The interfaces of technodemocracy 2) The proposition: Compiling and negotiating democracy in a Danish municipality Anne Kathrine Vadgaard 3) Technocratic activism: Environmental organisations, carbon markets and European bureaucracy Véra Ehrenstein 4) Use yourself, kick yourself! Learning from a newspaper how (not) to do good public debate Andreas Birkbak PART II: Technosciences, democracy and situated enactments of participation 5) Leaks and Overflows: Two contrasting cases of hybrid participation in environmental governance Linda Soneryd and Göran Sundqvist 6) STS and democracy co-produced? The making of public dialogue as a technology of participation Helen Pallett and Jason Chilvers 7) A democratic inquiry launched and lost: The Dutch national societal dialogue on nanotechnology Lotte Krabbenborg 8) Convene, represent, deliberate? Reasoning the democratic in embryonic stem cell research oversight committees Rachel Douglas-Jones 9) The dark side of care? Wayward participants in Samsø’s renewable energy transition Irina Papazu PART III: Reconfiguring democratic politics with new nonhuman actors 10) Enlisting the body politic: Governmentalised technologies of participation in digital diplomacy Alexei Tsinovoi 11) Democratising software? Situating political campaigning technology in the UK’s EU referendum Laurie Waller and David Moats 12) The conceived child: Material politics in the Polish ‘war on gender’ Andrzej W. Nowak 20 00 Open Access Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press Manchester, UK 04 01 20220518 2022 06 15 9781912729302 06 15 9781912729128 06 15 9781912729319 06 15 9781912729135 09 Mattering Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://www.matteringpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Democratic_Situations_9781912729128.pdf 99 01 09 Mattering Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.matteringpress.org/books/democratic-situations 99 01