Social Movements and Public Action: Lessons from Environmental Issues

0349222 - SOÚ 2011 CZ eng M - Monography Chapter
Stöckelová, Tereza
Who knows? Notes on civic epistemology in the Czech Republic.
Social Movements and Public Action: Lessons from Environmental Issues. Praha: CEFRES, 2009 - (Marty, P.; Devaux, S.), s. 101-130. ISBN 978-80-86311-20-3
R&D Projects: GA ČR GP403/09/P203
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z70280505
Keywords : science and sociaty * science policy
Subject RIV: AO - Sociology, Demography

The notion of public participation refers most often to participatory political process of reclaiming interests, values and worldviews by social actors who are not professional or elected politicians. Such participation is meant to problematise and complement – if not uproot – the modern paradigm of political representation by the delegation of governance to professionals. However, as Bruno Latour strongly argued, political delegation constitutes in modern societies but one leg of a governance machinery. It has to be complemented by expert representation which, alone side the political representation of a society, deals with the nature and our knowing of it. It is this second leg of the expert representation that I reconsider here in relation to the Czech environmental movement and issues.
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