Material participation : technology, the environment, and everyday publics
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.
Print Book, English, 2015
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Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, 2015
xvi, 211 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9781137480736, 9780230232112, 9781137480743, 1137480734, 0230232116, 1137480742
928752761
1. Participation as if Things Mattered 2. The Invention of Material Publics: Returns to American Pragmatism 3. Engaging Devices: Everyday Carbon Accounting and the Cost of Involvement 4. Sustainable Living Experiments or a 'Coming Out' for the Politics of Things 5. Ecoshowhomes and the Material Politics of Experimental Variation 6. Re-distributing Problems of Participation
With new introduction