Description:
Democratic Situations places the making and doing of democratic politics at the centre of relational research.
Brief description: Andreas Birkbak is associate professor at Aalborg University in Copenhagen and a co-founding member of the Techno-Anthropology Laboratory (TANTLab). Andreas' research focuses on public participation and digital methods. His recent publications include 'Participatory Data Design' (book chapter in Making and Doing, MIT Press 2021, with Jensen, Madsen and Munk). Andreas has been a visiting scholar at multiple universities, including at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (Warwick) and the Centre for the Sociology of Innovation (École des Mines de Paris).
Review Quotes:
In this important book, the authors show us how the analytics and empirical methods of Science and Technology Studies can shed new light on the practices of democracy. In this way, the book makes a vital contribution to political theory.
Andrew Barry, UCL
STS and democracy always hang together. With this excellent edited volume, the situation is there to take this further, with STS-engagements to maintain democratic practices, reconfigure what it might mean and partake in struggles to make this happen.
Kristin Asdal, TIK, Oslo
The chapters of this volume open up and explore the space in between political theory and science and technology studies that has all too often been overlooked from both sides.
Christopher M. Kelty, UCLA