Material Participation

Name: Material Participation
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ISBN: 9780230232112

Technology, the Environment and Everyday Publics

N. Marres

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Palgrave Macmillan
01 September 2012

Sustainability

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.

By: N. Marres
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 405g
ISBN: 9780230232112
ISBN 10: 0230232116
Pages: 206
Publication Date: 01 September 2012
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

NOORTJE MARRES Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Previously she was a Research Fellow in the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society at the University of Oxford, UK.

Reviews for Material Participation: Technology, the Environment and Everyday Publics

[A] rich and stimulating book.'' - Journal of Cultural Economy Marres' attention to the material conditions of political participation is not a return to materialism but a deep redefinition of each of those terms: why does politics matter and what does it mean to be involved into politics? Before her a pragmatist view of politics and publics remained abstract, without a clear method to follow the objects, pragmata, that give relevance to the creation of the public. Marres' work deeply renews what it is for the study of politics and participation to take material conditions seriously. - Bruno Latour, Professor, Sciences Po, Paris, France Material Participation is a book about the role of objects in political participation. It is part of what has been called the object turn what Noortje Marres, more delightfully, calls the coming out of things. It is an account of how moral and political phenomena may unfold on the plane of things. It deploys a vocabulary of modality, multi-valence, implication, accomplishment, setting and relevance to make visible the middling work of objects. And in doing so offers us the possibility of taking part in a politics of co-articulation, of producing new, more variable kinds of connections between publics, ontology, and the empirical. - Celia Lury, Professor, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick, UK