Arguments in favour of participative democratic practices have been promoted stridently in recent years as trust in existing political institutions has receded. These arguments assume the declining ability of elected members to represent increasingly diverse constituencies in a period of rapid...

The paper is based on a research project that engaged with and intervened in flood risk management in national policy and in two localities. Building on recent work in STS, we develop a framework for political analysis that complements existing understandings of environmental governance by...

<b>Introduction: posthumanism in question</b> Noel Castree, Catherine Nash<br> <b>Mapping posthumanism</b> Neil Badmington<br> <b>Modalities of posthumanism</b> Bruce Braun<br> <b>Humanising posthumanism</b> Jonathan Murdoch<br> <b>Humanism's excess: some thoughts on the 'post-human/ist' agenda</b> Sarah Whatmore<br> <br>Organisors: Noel Castree,...

In ecological, environmental, and urban-regeneration terms, the participatory turn and the turn to action have been written about at length in both academic and official literatures. From neighbourhood renewal to lay ecologies, people are being ‘given’ all kinds of agency in the making of...