Democracy under construction: thinking reflexively about 'technologies of participation
Channel: Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra
Date: 2021-12-07

For this talk I dived back and shared about my PhD work I conducted some time ago on 'technologies of participation' (e.g. "mini-publics" , ready made tools, methods, formats of doing citizen participation) which are actively promoted as democratic innovations and spread worldwide with lots of ideals and imaginaries of how democracy should work and should be done right, - no matter what organisational cultural and political ground they meet. I shared some thoughts on how to think reflexively about 'technocratic' forms of doing participation and attempts of colonizing the world with it.