Artículos de investigación: Repensando la participación ciudadana en asuntos científico-técnicos
The growing complexity of technoscientific issues has posed a challenge to decision-making in our democracies. Over the last two decades, we have thus witnessed a rise in the participatory processes that promise to democratize these issues by including citizens in decision-making. This paper aims to...
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Universidad Rafael Belloso Chacín
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| description | The growing complexity of technoscientific issues has posed a challenge to decision-making in our democracies. Over the last two decades, we have thus witnessed a rise in the participatory processes that promise to democratize these issues by including citizens in decision-making. This paper aims to study the discourses and practices of the organizers of participatory processes in Spain to analyze these proposals' limits. In order to accomplish this objective, we conducted eight case studies by interviewing the individuals responsible for these processes and examining publicly available materials related to them. The analysis of the collected data reveals that, although the participation of laypeople is considered a positive contribution, the very configuration of participation—based on a problematic division between experts and non-experts—ends up limiting the ambition of democratizing decision-making. Based on these findings and drawing on lessons from the field of activism, the paper proposes a 'participation in the wild', which would allow rethinking the disposition of the stages and rhythms of participatory processes, and thereby blur the asymmetries that constitute these devices. This work, therefore, aims to contribute to the assembly of elements of political theory and science and technology studies, as well as bridging the gap between two fields that can make important contributions to achieve more democratic ways of conceiving decision-making concerning science and technology in society. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cd93a2f3d26b40d899eb85b92c7049502023-07-08T16:57:55ZengUniversidad Rafael Belloso ChacínTelos: Revista de Estudios Interdisciplinarios en Ciencias Sociales1317-05702343-57632023-05-01252359375https://doi.org/10.36390/telos252.09Artículos de investigación: Repensando la participación ciudadana en asuntos científico-técnicosJoan Moyà-Köhler0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5746-6958Miquel Domènech1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2854-3659Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), EspañaUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), EspañaThe growing complexity of technoscientific issues has posed a challenge to decision-making in our democracies. Over the last two decades, we have thus witnessed a rise in the participatory processes that promise to democratize these issues by including citizens in decision-making. This paper aims to study the discourses and practices of the organizers of participatory processes in Spain to analyze these proposals' limits. In order to accomplish this objective, we conducted eight case studies by interviewing the individuals responsible for these processes and examining publicly available materials related to them. The analysis of the collected data reveals that, although the participation of laypeople is considered a positive contribution, the very configuration of participation—based on a problematic division between experts and non-experts—ends up limiting the ambition of democratizing decision-making. Based on these findings and drawing on lessons from the field of activism, the paper proposes a 'participation in the wild', which would allow rethinking the disposition of the stages and rhythms of participatory processes, and thereby blur the asymmetries that constitute these devices. This work, therefore, aims to contribute to the assembly of elements of political theory and science and technology studies, as well as bridging the gap between two fields that can make important contributions to achieve more democratic ways of conceiving decision-making concerning science and technology in society.http://ojs.urbe.edu/index.php/telos/article/view/4098/5756public participationtop-down participationexpertisestakeholderslaypeoplescience and technologysts |
| spellingShingle | Joan Moyà-Köhler Miquel Domènech Artículos de investigación: Repensando la participación ciudadana en asuntos científico-técnicos Telos: Revista de Estudios Interdisciplinarios en Ciencias Sociales public participation top-down participation expertise stakeholders laypeople science and technology sts |
| title | Artículos de investigación: Repensando la participación ciudadana en asuntos científico-técnicos |
| title_full | Artículos de investigación: Repensando la participación ciudadana en asuntos científico-técnicos |
| title_fullStr | Artículos de investigación: Repensando la participación ciudadana en asuntos científico-técnicos |
| title_full_unstemmed | Artículos de investigación: Repensando la participación ciudadana en asuntos científico-técnicos |
| title_short | Artículos de investigación: Repensando la participación ciudadana en asuntos científico-técnicos |
| title_sort | articulos de investigacion repensando la participacion ciudadana en asuntos cientifico tecnicos |
| topic | public participation top-down participation expertise stakeholders laypeople science and technology sts |
| url | http://ojs.urbe.edu/index.php/telos/article/view/4098/5756 |
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