[Air-L] CfP Special Issue Public participation amidst hostility: when the uninvited shape matters of collective concern

[Claudia Egher]

Dear colleagues,



We invite contributions to a special issue *Public participation amidst
hostility: when the uninvited shape matters of collective concern *to be
published in the *Social Inclusion* journal. Please find more details below
and, if you are interested, contact the guest editors for a draft of
the Introduction text.



*Topic:*

Ways of taking part in formulating and addressing matters of shared concern
are diverse. The practices people employ to engage in shaping societal
orders go far beyond organized formats such as citizen juries or
co-production sessions, where questions and tasks are, to a large extent,
pre-set. Particularly creative practices emerge in situations when
participation is not invited, or discouraged, or even met with hostility.
Such situations are not exceptional because even in established democracies
pockets of exclusion exist. For this special issue, we challenge authors to
consider, among others, how participation is made possible in situations of
hostility to participation: What are the consequences of participatory
practices under adverse circumstances? How can we understand and theorize
the diversity of forms of participation in contemporary societies? How can
we make studies of public participation relevant to the multiple settings
where exclusion and animosity to public input exist?



*Link to the full call*:
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/pages/view/nextissues#PublicParticipation




*Timeline: *

Submission of Abstracts: 15-31 December 2023
Submission of Full Papers: 15-31 July 2024
Publication of the Issue: January/March 2025

The *uthors of accepted abstracts will be invited to join a hybrid workshop
led by the editors on 18-19 April 2024* where the special issue collective
will meet and work together on the texts.

*Guest editors: *

Olga Zvonareva (Maastricht University) o.zvonareva at maastrichtuniversity.nl

Claudia Egher (Utrecht University) c.egher at uu.nl



*Important*:

Please contact the guest editors to receive a draft of the Introduction
text.



Best wishes,

Claudia Egher



Postdoctoral Researcher

Innovation Studies

Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development

Utrecht University