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What does STS have to contribute to studies of democracy? What does it have to contribute to public engagements with democracy? Our suggestion is that STS can innovate, interrupt and regenerate the knowing and doing of democracy by bringing into view the practices through which democracy becomes known in one way or another. A key interest is with the generation of epistemic authority on what democracy is and how it works, and with how experts of democracy configure the practical knowing and actual doing of democracy in certain ways: by shaping discourses, subjectivities and material arrangements. We thus invite papers that mobilize concepts and methods from STS to investigate how knowledge is produced on what democracy is and how it works. This may include ‘scientific’ engagements with democracy such as political philosophy and theories of democracy, empirical research on democratic arrangements and processes, performance evaluations, as well as the development of ‘technologies’ such as electoral and voting systems, polling methods, participatory procedures, digital devices, campaigning and protest strategies, education materials, curricula and skills training courses. Underlying this endeavor is a concern for the performativity of producing knowledge on democracy, the ontological politics that are involved, and the ways in which they are explicitly reflected and open for public engagement.
Infrastructuring Democratic Innovation: Networks, Platforms, and Observatories for Translocal Knowledge Work on “Deliberative Mini-Publics” - Jan-Peter Voß, Berlin University of Technology; Volkan Sayman, Berlin University of Technology; Jannik Schritt, Berlin University of Technology
The Problem of the Missing Public - Brett Mommersteeg, Architecture, The University of Manchester
Gandhimentality: The Art of Anti-Nuclear Resistance in India - Monamie Bhadra Haines, Nanyang Technological University
Producing Democracy away from Consumption: Private Security Guards in Nairobi, Kenya - Nathan Dobson
Knowing Democracy through Performing Scientific Self-Governance - Cornelia Schendzielorz, Deutsches Insitut für Wissenschafts und Hochschulforschung/Humboldt Universität zu Berlin; Martin Reinhart, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Politics of Citizen Science: The Continuation of Democracy by Other Means? - Hannes Wuensche, Fraunhofer FOKUS