Participation as assemblage: Introducing assemblage as a framework for analysing participatory processes and outcomes

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Participation as assemblage: Introducing assemblage as a framework for analysing participatory processes and outcomes
Abstract
The article presents a yet unexplored framework for analysing the multidimensionality and dis/connections of participatory processes and their outcomes by using the concept of the ‘assemblage’ (DeLanda, 2006). The case is an eight-month collaboration between a task force initiated by Central Denmark Region, the socio-economic company Sager der Samler, and citizens. The collaboration is aimed at bringing together and working across various institutional and user perspectives to act on a societal challenge. The analysis is theoretically based on a review of existing theories of participation and typologies for analysing and evaluating participation. In particu- lar, the analysis focuses on the assemblage approach as a way of acknowledging the institutional, affective, mate- rial and power-related complexity of participatory processes. The assemblage approach helps to analytically stress that the process under investigation should be evaluated both with a more traditional focus on decision-making or power allocation, as well as taking into account the social, personal-affective and material benefits produced, and the potential for change in the relationship between public administration and citizens.
Publication
Conjunctions. Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation
Volume
2
Issue
2
Pages
117-136
Date
2016/02/11
Language
en
ISSN
2246-3755
Short Title
Participation as assemblage
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23/03/2016, 17:08
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Copyright (c) 2015 Conjunctions. Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation
Citation
Stage, C., & Ingerslev, K. (2016). Participation as assemblage: Introducing assemblage as a framework for analysing participatory processes and outcomes. Conjunctions. Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation, 2(2), 117–136. https://doi.org/10.7146/tjcp.v2i2.22923