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Published in: Participation NowThe myth of the keyboard warrior: public participation and 38 DegreesPreliminary findings after completing an ethnographic study of 38 Degrees suggest that this is a new type of organisation.
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Published in: Participation NowBuilding the middle groundFor my colleagues, nothing short of complete people-driven management would do. On the other hand, the government...
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Published in: Participation NowPublic engagement, a social priority?Living in a perpetual state of fear, people prefer to isolate themselves from what they perceive as the...
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Published in: Participation NowInsider knowledgeWhile the literal meaning of utopia is ‘no place’, an OU-topia could be almost any place. Even when physically...
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Published in: Participation NowThe democratic potential of activist performanceOne could hardly imagine a better illustration than Putin’s regime for the idea that the Presidency is itself a...
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Published in: Participation NowScience outreach in schoolsThere were so many questions that I had to stop taking them so that the children could finish school on time.
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Published in: Participation NowParticipation Now: patterns, possibilities, politicsAt one end of this spectrum we have started to place initiatives that offer to rationalise public engagement and...
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Published in: Participation NowVolatile, stable and extractive participationAt a conference on the theme of ‘Participatory Cultural Citizenship’ in Aarhus, Denmark last November, Participation...
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Published in: Participation NowWhen is citizen participation transformative?When is participation empowering and transformative? What is the relationship between ‘bottom-up’ and ‘top-down’...
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Published in: Participation NowPondering participationIs there a profound contradiction between subjective expression and effective political deliberation, such that the...
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Published in: Participation NowInspired by the publicExperimenting with public participation at the Kröller-Müller Museum, 2010-2014.
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Published in: Participation NowAlternative horizons - understanding Occupy's politicsOccupy is to be assessed, firstly, in terms of the alternative public space that it creates and the mutual...
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Published in: Participation NowBradford’s Community University: co-producing knowledge for a changeThis is a year-long experiment in knowledge exchange and co-production, aimed at exploring what emerges when...
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Published in: Participation NowThe nQuire young citizen inquiryWe want young scientists to develop a personal sense of wonder.
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Published in: Participation NowResearching austerity: participatory engagementAny research that seeks to make positive interventions as well as produce ‘objective’ data, must foster new kinds of...
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Published in: Participation NowKnowing your citizens, making publicsWhat sets public participation techniques apart from other ways for governments to know about citizens is the...
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Published in: Participation NowParticipatory public engagement: reshaping what it means to be public?In exactly what ways can participation and public engagement address the contemporary crises of democracy, expertise...
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Published in: Participation NowCould volunteering be bad for our health?Discussions of volunteering in British health-care organisations rarely discuss the possible downside. But we need...
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Published in: Participation NowKeyword: publicIn our current moment, we are witnessing a global, if contradictory, conversation about what public-ness might mean.
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Published in: Participation NowResearching Occupy LondonThose few cold months camped outside St Pauls were a fragile attempt to create a political subject beyond the...
