Technocratic Politics: Beyond Democratic Society?

ISBN-13: 9781032109251 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 104 str.

Italy) Antonelli Francesco (Universita degli Studi Roma Tre

Opis

This book considers the role of experts and expertise in contemporary politics and the ways in which digitalization and the use of technique are transforming practices of governance.

Spis treści

Introduction,  1. Rationality: Reassembling Technocratic Theory,  2. Power: Expertise and Digitalisation,  3. Ambivalence: Governance and Technoscience,  4. Emergency: The New Enlightened Despotism

O autorze

Francesco Antonelli is Professor of General Sociology in the Department of Political Sciences at the Università degli Studi "Roma Tre", Italy. He is also the Coordinator of the HORIZON2020 Project "PARTICIPATION: Analyzing and Preventing Violent Extremism Via Participation" (2020–2023) and Secretary of the RC "Sociological Theory and Social Transformations" at the Italian Association of Sociology (AIS).