Deliberating Competence
Theoretical and Practitioner Perspectives on Effective Participatory Appraisal Practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5187111 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jason Chilvers (0000-0001-9238-1653, University of Birmingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 155-185 |
| Publication date | 2008-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0162243907307594 |
| OpenAlex | W2106409713 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 144 |
| References cited | 45 |
The "participatory turn" cutting across technical approaches for appraising environment, risk, science, and technology has been accompanied by intense debates over the desired nature, extent, and quality of public engagement in science. Burgeoning work evaluating the effectiveness of such processes and the social study of science in society more generally is notable, however, for lacking systematic understanding of the very actors shaping these new forms science-society interaction. This paper addresses this lacuna by drawing on United Kingdom based in-depth empirical research that made space for participatory appraisal experts to reflect on effective practice and novel questions of competence, expertise, and citizen-specialist relations within analytic-deliberative processes. Emerging practitioner principles warn that existing participatory models have not sufficiently considered constructivist perspectives on knowledge, analysis, and deliberation. Effective participatory appraisal under uncertainty needs to guard against the "technocracy of participation" by opening up to diversity, difference, antagonism, and uncertainties/indeterminacies
Citizen journalism · Citizen science · Deliberation · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Public participation · Public relations · Sociology · Technocracy · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Engineering · Psychology · Risk Perception and Management · Social Psychology · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
Unlocking participation
Towards an alignment of activities, aspirations and stakeholders for responsible innovation
The moral psychology of value sensitive design
Designing and evaluating analytic-deliberative engagement processes for natural resources management
Human centred science and technology—transdisciplinary foresight and co-creation as tools for active needs-based innovation governance
Following from the front
Connecting Engineering Processes and Responsible Innovation
A review of climate geoengineering appraisals
Ethics in Business Research and Innovation. An Institutionalisation Framework
The evolution of local participation and the mode of knowledge production in Arctic research
Evaluation of a Mixed Participatory Method to Improve Mutual Understanding Between Consumers and Chain Actors
Improving Legitimacy in Nanotechnology Policy Development Through Stakeholder and Community Engagement
Et pourquoi pas une éducation aux sciences qui aborde la participation des acteurs sociaux aux controverses sociotechniques
Publicly funded research
Exploring public perceptions of forest adaptation strategies in Western Canada
Patient-expert partnerships in research
The frontiers of participatory public engagement
Functional‐dynamic public participation in technological decision‐making
Practising environmental policy evaluation under co-existing evaluation imaginaries
Public Participation Organizations and Open Policy
Reflexive Engagement? Actors, Learning, and Reflexivity in Public Dialogue on Science and Technology
“… A Certain Amount of Engineering Involved”
Stakeholder engagement in food risk management
“What sceptics believe”
The rules of engagement
Public engagement coming of age
Public engagement with marine climate change issues
From Public Engagement to Research Intervention
Understanding community-researcher partnerships in the natural sciences
The power of public participation in local planning in Scotland
Alter-ontologies
Evaluating Interactive Policy Making on Biotechnology
Inclusion and Transparency in Planning Decision-Making
What Determines the Substantive Influence of Public Participation? An Investigation of Planners’ Views on Conditions for Participatory Practices in Denmark
Private profit, public interest and land use planning—A conflict interpretation of residential development pressure in Glasgow's rural–urban fringe
An investigation of environmental and sustainability discourses associated with the substantive purposes of environmental assessment
Ethical implications of democratic theory for U.S. public participation in environmental impact assessment
Contested meanings of public engagement
Maximizing the Policy Impacts of Public Engagement
Failure through Success
Enacting Big Futures, Little Futures
Experiments in Science Policy
The reflective futures practitioner
Policy problems, publics, and the power of definition
Collingridge and the dilemma of control
A review of citizen science and community-based environmental monitoring
The emergence of citizen panels as a de facto standard
Can the Science of Well-Being Be Objective
Engaging with Users of Climate Information and the Coproduction of Knowledge
Plan Nacional de Aguas en Uruguay
Process expertise in policy advice
Spatialising procedural justice
Designing Participatory Technology Assessments
Organising stakeholder workshops in research and innovation – between theory and practice
Beyond Engagement Exercises
Energy Futures
The Doctors of Democracy
The Discursive Functions of Deliberative Voting
Obstacles in energy planning at the urban scale
Nuclear Citizens Jury
Children of the revolution? Democratic innovations during the first 50 years of democracy in Portugal
A three-dimensional view of public participation in Scottish land-use planning
Why do environmentalists not consider compromises as legitimate
How to normalize reflexive evaluation? Navigating between legitimacy and integrity
Doing Dialogue
Restore politics in societal debates on new genomic techniques
Engagement, representativeness and legitimacy in the development of food and nutrition policy
Toward a manifesto for the ‘public understanding of big data’
Influencing governance of a public-private partnership in plant genomics
Expertise in/of co-Creation
Digital platforms in Zero Emission Vehicle transition
If deliberation is the answer, what is the question? Objectives and evaluation of public participation and engagement in science and technology
Scientists need professional development to practice meaningful public engagement
Frame analysis of attitudes towards forest-based bioenergy in Europe
Environmental governance through guidance
Unraveling the politics of ‘doing inclusion’ in transdisciplinarity for sustainable transformation
The Research on Differences and Policies of Housing Provision in UK Cities before and after the WWII
Public engagement professionals
Synthetic Participation
The challenges of engaging island communities
Climate change scenarios and citizen-participation
Integrating ecosystem services into environmental impact assessment
Mini-publics, Social Legitimacy and Institutional Collaboration
Environmental scenarios and local-global level of community engagement
Wind Energy on the Isle of Lewis
Deliberative forums in fragile contexts
Oh Yes, Robots! People Like Robots; the Robot People Should do Something
Increasing Engagement in Regulatory Science
Paradise Lost? ''Science'' and ''the Public'' after Asilomar
Une infrastructure élusive
The epistemic tensions of nuclear waste siting in a nuclear landscape
A Decade of Learning about Publics, Participation, and Climate Change
Heating up' or 'Cooling Down'? Analysing and Performing Broadened Participation in Technoscientific Conflicts
Environmental Risk, Uncertainty, and Participation
Public Engagement for Informing Science and Technology Policy
Science and citizens
What Is a Good Public Participation Process? Five Perspectives from the Public
“Right” Discourse in Citizen Participation
A Novel Approach to the Appraisal of Technological Risk
Uncertainty and Participatory Democracy
Expert knowledge and decision-making in controversy contexts
The public—expert interface in local waste management decisions
Difficulties in evaluating public engagement initiatives
Credibility and trust in risk communication
Pathways to Participation
Fairness and Competence in Citizen Participation
Risk Perception and Communication Unplugged
Powers of Freedom
Towards Analytic‐deliberative Forms of Risk Governance in the UK? Reflecting on Learning in Radioactive Waste
Challenging the ‘view from nowhere’
Uncertainty and environmental learning 1, 2Reconceiving science and policy in the preventive paradigm
The Third Wave of Science Studies
The Politics of Talk
Seasick on the Third Wave? Subverting the Hegemony of Propositionalism
Public participation in impact assessment
Public participation in decision making
Technology on trial—public participation in decision-making related to science and technology
Science for the post-normal age
Indeterminacy in‐decisions – science, policy and politics in the BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) crisis
The myth of the best argument
Citizen Participation and Environmental Risk
Public Participation Methods
Evaluating Public-Participation Exercises
Comparative Risk Assessment
Participatory Analysis, Democracy, and Technological Decision Making
The Sacred and the Profane
Environmental Communication and the Cultural Politics of Environmental Citizenship
Deliberations about deliberative methods
New Agendas for Appraisal
Mapping deliberation
| Unique citing works | 95 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 8 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 98 |