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Innovating public participation methods: Technoscientization and reflexive engagement (October 2016)

Jan-Peter Voß (Author)
Nina Amelung (Author)

Social Studies of Science
Volume: 46
Issue: 5
Pages: 749-772

DOI: 10.1177/0306312716641350

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Self-Knowledge, Theory of Citizen participation Technology assessment Citizen science; community science Governance Technoscience; science and technology studies 21st century 20th century

We reconstruct the innovation journey of ‘citizen panels’, as a family of participation methods, over four decades and across different sites of development and application. A process of aggregation leads from local practices of designing participatory procedures like the citizens jury, planning cell, or consensus conference in the 1970s and 1980s, to the disembedding and proliferation of procedural formats in the 1990s, and into the trans-local consolidation of participatory practices through laboratory-based expertise since about 2000. Our account highlights a central irony: anti-technocratic engagements with governance gave birth to efforts at establishing technoscientific control over questions of political procedure. But such efforts have been met with various forms of reflexive engagement that draw out implications and turn design questions back into matters of concern. An emerging informal assessment regime for technologies of participation as yet prevents closure on one dominant global design for democracy beyond the state.

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