Material participation
Subtitle: technology, the environment and everyday publics
By: Noortje Marres
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780230232112
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship; Social participation; Community participation; SCIENCE / Environmental Science; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General; Technology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
Description: "This book develops a fresh perspective on everyday forms of engagement, one that foregrounds the role of objects, technologies and settings in democracy. Examining a range of devices, from smart meters to eco-homes, the book sets out new concepts and methods for analyzing the relations between participation, innovation and the environment"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: List of FiguresAcknowledgements PrefaceObjects of ParticipationThe (Dis)invention of the Material Public: Returns to American PragmatismDevising Engagement: Everyday Carbon Accounting and the Cost of InvolvementLiving Experiments: A "Coming Out" for the Politics of Things The Ecohome as Multifarious Instrument: Engagement, Innovation, ChangeRe-distributing Problems of ParticipationNotesBibliographyIndex.