No contest: participatory technologies and the transformation of urban authority
McQuarrie, M.
(2013).
No contest: participatory technologies and the transformation of urban authority.
Public Culture,
25(1:69), 143-175.
https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1890495
This essay describes the transformation of civic participation from a tool of democratization into a tool for elite authority. Looking at various participatory projects in community-based organizations in a city in America’s Rust Belt, the essay demonstrates how the very architecture of civil society is being manipulated to marginalize dissent. This raises the question of whether the design of institutions has outpaced our critiques of them.
| Item Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2013 Duke University Press |
| Departments | LSE > Academic Departments > Sociology |
| DOI | 10.1215/08992363-1890495 |
| Date Deposited | 11 Sep 2013 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/52458 |
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- H Social Sciences (General)
- HM Sociology
- HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
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