Gideon Boie, Matthias Pauwels, Urban Politics Now, Re-Imagining Democracy in the Neoliberal City, 2007

Riemens Patrice. Gideon Boie, Matthias Pauwels, Urban Politics Now, Re-Imagining Democracy in the Neoliberal City, 2007. In: Les Annales de la recherche urbaine, N°104, 2008. L’expertise au miroir de la recherche. pp. 186-187

Gideon Boie, Matthias Pauwels, Urban Politics Now, Re-Imagining Democracy in the Neoliberal City, 2007

Riemens Patrice. Gideon Boie, Matthias Pauwels, Urban Politics Now, Re-Imagining Democracy in the Neoliberal City, 2007. In: Les Annales de la recherche urbaine, N°104, 2008. L’expertise au miroir de la recherche. pp. 186-187

Affinités électro-électives et communautés en réseaux

Riemens Patrice, Casalegno Federico. Affinités électro-électives et communautés en réseaux. In: Chimères. Revue des schizoanalyses, N°45, hiver 2002. Cultures du désert. pp. 171-176

Landscaping Climate Change: A mapping technique for understanding science & technology debates on the World Wide Web

New World Wide Web (web) mapping techniques may inform and ultimately facilitate meaningful participation in current science and technology debates. The technique described here “landscapes” a debate by displaying key “webby” relationships between organizations. “Debate-scaping” plots two organizational positionings—the organizations' inter-hyperlinking as well as their discursive affinities. The underlying claim is that hyperlinking and discursive maps provide a semblance of given socio-epistemic networks on the web. The climate change debate on the web in November 1998 serves as a test case. Three findings are reported. First, distinctive .com, .gov and .org linking styles were found. Second, organizations take care in making hyperlinks, leading to the premise that the hyperlinks (and the “missing links”) reveal which issue and debate framings organizations acknowledge, and find acceptable and unacceptable. Finally, it was learned that organizations take substantive positions and address other organizations' positions. Thus, we found the makings of a “debate” that may be mapped. Scenarios of use to support new public participation techniques and experiments are discussed by way of conclusion

Local actors in global politics

Globalization and the new information and communication technologies(ICTs) have enabled a variety of local political actors to enter inter-national arenas once exclusive to national states. Multiple types of claim-making and oppositional politics articulate these developments. Going global has been partly facilitated and conditioned by the infrastructure of the global economy, even as the latter is often the object of those oppositional politics. Further, and in my analysis, very importantly, the possibility of global imag-inaries has enabled even those who are geographically immobile to become part of global politics. NGOs and indigenous peoples, immigrants and refugees who become subjects of adjudication in human rights decisions, human rights and environmental activists, and many others are increasingly becoming actors in global politics. That is to say, non-state actors can enter and gain visibility in inter-national fora or global politics as individuals and as collectivities, emerging from the invisibility of aggregate membership in a nation-state exclusively represented by the sovereign. One way of interpreting this is in terms of a