Dear colleagues,
I would like to share with you a special issue $B!H(BPublic participation
amidst hostility$B!I(B that emerged from the discussions at the EASST-2022
panel $B!H(BUnseen participation: When the uninvited shape matters of
collective concern$B!I(B.
This special issue focuses on conflicts and tensions participatory practices
are imbued and surrounded with. Included papers foreground intriguing
ambiguities that emerge as a result. Not only can participation be welcome and
unwelcome at the same time, but hostilities to participation may occasionally
open windows of opportunity for participatory practices instead of suppressing
them. Striving to participate despite hostilities, actors employ practices
that often uneasily entwine collaboration and contentiousness in relation to
authorities; all the while, very similar participatory practices that blossom
despite being unwelcome may have vastly different effects, some supportive and
others corrosive of democracy. Overall, the papers in this special issue show
how hostilities co$B!>(Bdevelop together with specific participatory
practices that, in turn, attune to, navigate, and resist the particular
(hostile) circumstances in which they arise.
In the editorial to the special issue, Claudia Egher and I reflect on the
ambivalence and, in some cases, agonistic quality of participatory processes
in contemporary societies, where mutually constitutive relations between
participation and hostilities towards it shape matters of collective concern,
political agendas, and possible futures. The editorial is
here and
the full special issue can be accessed
here. All
papers are open access, free to download, read, and share.
All the best,
Olga
Olga Zvonareva, PhD
Assistant professor
Department of Health, Ethics and Society (HES)
Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI)
Maastricht University
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