TY - T1 - Struggles over Expertise : Practices of Politicization and Depoliticization in Participatory Democracy SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/333032 T3 - A1 - Meriluoto, Taina Maria A2 - PB - Y1 - 2021 LA - eng AB - There is growing concern among democracy scholars that participatory innovations pose a de-politicizing threat rather than an asset for democracy. This article tackles this concern by providing a more nuanced understanding of how politicization and de-politicization take shape in participatory initiatives. Based on ethnographic research on participatory projects with marginalized people who are invited to act as experiential experts, the article examines how actors limit and open up possibilitie... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - citizen participation; depoliticization; experiential expertise; participatory democracy; politicization; public policy; PUBLIC-PARTICIPATION; POLICY; POLITICS; CITIZEN; KNOWLEDGE; AGONISM; 5141 Sociology; 5171 Political Science N1 - PP - ER -