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Material participation[electronic re...
Marres, Noortje, (1975-)

 

  • Material participation[electronic resource] :technology, the environment and everyday publics /
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 302/.140973
    Title/Author: Material participation : technology, the environment and everyday publics // Noortje Marres.
    Author: Marres, Noortje,
    Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2012.
    Description: 1 v. : : ill. ;; 23 cm.
    Subject: SCIENCE / Environmental Science
    Subject: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General
    Subject: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy
    Subject: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
    Subject: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship
    Subject: Social participation - United States.
    Subject: Political participation - United States.
    Subject: Technology - Social aspects - United States.
    ISBN: 9781137029669 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 1137029668 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9780230232112 (Cloth)
    ISBN: 0230232116 (Cloth)
    [NT 15000227]: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-200) and index.
    [NT 15000228]: List of Figures -- Acknowledgements Preface -- Objects of Participation -- The (Dis)invention of the Material Public: Returns to American Pragmatism -- Devising Engagement: Everyday Carbon Accounting and the Cost of Involvement -- Living Experiments: A 'Coming Out' for the Politics of Things -- The Ecohome as Multifarious Instrument: Engagement, Innovation, Change -- Re-distributing Problems of Participation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- --.
    [NT 15000229]: What is the role of things in political participation? This innovative book develops a fresh perspective on everyday forms of engagement, one that foregrounds the role of objects, technology and settings in public involvement. It makes a distinctive contribution to debates about the role of things in democracy, but it also offers empirical analyses of contemporary devices of participation, such as smart meters, demonstrational eco-homes and sustainable living gadgets. Through case studies of mundane technologies of environmental engagement, this book then develops a set of concepts and methods for the social and political analysis of distinctively material forms of participation. Material Participation explores the next steps to be taken in social studies of participation, technology and the environment, focusing our empirical, critical and creative attention squarely on the materials and devices of the public.
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