88 Pages
by
Routledge
88 Pages
by
Routledge
88 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book considers the role of experts and expertise in contemporary politics and the ways in which digitalisation and the use of technique are transforming practices of governance.
Asking whether the Covid-19 crisis is likely to further advance or weaken these processes, it examines their impact on the future of democracy and urges rejection of the idea of technocracy as an alternative... Read more
Introduction
1. Rationality: Reassembling Technocratic Theory
2. Power: Expertise and Digitalisation
3. Ambivalence: Governance and Technoscience
4. Emergency: The New Enlightened Despotism
Biography
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).
