Changing family among technological know-how and democracy – and controversies over matters similar to weather swap, power transitions, genetically changed organisms and clever applied sciences – have ended in a fast upward thrust in new varieties of public participation and citizen engagement. whereas such a lot latest techniques undertake fastened meanings of ‘participation’ and are fed on by way of questions of technique or critiquing the potential limits of democratic engagement, this booklet bargains new insights that reconsider public engagements with technological know-how, innovation and environmental matters as diversified, emergent and within the making. Bringing jointly top students on technology and democracy, operating among technological know-how and know-how reviews, political thought, geography, sociology and anthropology, the quantity develops relational and co-productionist techniques to learning and intervening in areas of participation. New empirical insights into the making, development, move and results of participation throughout cultures are illustrated via examples starting from weather swap and effort to nanotechnology and mundane applied sciences, from institutionalised deliberative tactics to citizen-led innovation and activism, and from the worldwide north to international south. This new method of seeing participation in technology and democracy opens up substitute paths for reconfiguring and remaking participation in additional experimental, reflexive, anticipatory and accountable ways.

This ground-breaking booklet is vital interpreting for students and scholars of participation around the severe social sciences and past, in addition to these trying to construct extra transformative participatory practices.