Beyond the post-political: Exploring the relational and situated dynamics of consensus and conflict in planning

Legacy, Crystal; Metzger, Jonathan; Steele, Wendy; Gualini, Enrico

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“…One of the preconditions for successful decentralization is the participation of various stakeholders and the strengthening of public-private partnerships (Kombe & Namangaya, 2016). The participation in the planning process and implementation is recognized as depoliticization of decision-making, which is expected to contribute to the outcomes adjusted to the needs of citizens and public interest and it practically turns planning into a tool that belongs to citizens (Legacy et al, 2019;McClymont, 2019). The participation in planning and plan implementation is advocated as a precondition for reflection on cultural, social, and economic needs of citizens to shrink the gap between the planned measures and their effects at the moment they are implemented (Lau, 2015;Legacy et al, 2019) and increase the transparency of the process and citizens' awareness on what planning is (Erdiaw-Kwasie & Basson, 2017), thus securing the success of implementation.…”

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“…The participation in the planning process and implementation is recognized as depoliticization of decision-making, which is expected to contribute to the outcomes adjusted to the needs of citizens and public interest and it practically turns planning into a tool that belongs to citizens (Legacy et al, 2019;McClymont, 2019). The participation in planning and plan implementation is advocated as a precondition for reflection on cultural, social, and economic needs of citizens to shrink the gap between the planned measures and their effects at the moment they are implemented (Lau, 2015;Legacy et al, 2019) and increase the transparency of the process and citizens' awareness on what planning is (Erdiaw-Kwasie & Basson, 2017), thus securing the success of implementation. Therefore, participation should not be limited to decision-making only but also applied in plan implementation (Erdiaw-Kwasie & Basson, 2017;Mäntysalo et al, 2019), whereas the implementation of one's own decisions and actions guarantees a higher level of satisfaction.…”

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“…The planning and plan implementation undoubtedly go through constant adaptation and transformation. Lately, the changes focus on reinventing the role of planners in new circumstances (e.g., postpoliticization process; McClymont, 2019) and new participation processes-more critical, but only productive (Legacy et al, 2019).…”

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Urban and Spatial Planning: Pragmatic Considerations for Plan Implementation Improvements (A Case Study of the City of Bor)

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The main task of planning documents is to achieve maximal rationality in the use of space, spatial resources, and balanced territorial development. The preparation of plans is regulated by a legislative framework, which embraces multiple phases and stakeholders. In a perfect planning process, it would be expected that all the elements are well coordinated and brought to common understanding, but in reality, obstacles and challenges can occur in any of these steps, especially in the implementation phase. Although a plan is fully prepared to be practiced, its implementation might be omitted. Therefore, this article analyzes the full process of spatial and urban planning from the perspective of plan implementation. The methodology is based on a combination of different data collection methods (interviews, fieldwork, direct observation) with the analysis of plans and the particular mention of those plans that picture the implementation issues the most. Also, legislative acts and semi-annual and annual reports on the achievements of the local government budget are analyzed. The approach indicates that plan implementation depends the most on the willingness of the government to perform changes in the system and to peruse punitive policy comprehensively. Although it is about implementation at the local level, the success primarily depends on clear definitions given in the legislative acts, freedom of the local communities to make their own decisions, and financial decentralization, side by side with the regional and local circumstances, institutional technical and staff capacities, and application of participatory planning that involves actors from various sectors.

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“…Specifically, they find that both theories often co-exist in the participatory practices offered by city administrations, generating 'institutional ambiguity' (Bäcklund & Mäntysalo, 2010, p. 348), whereby new conceptual ideas about participatory urban governance are merely imposed on top of existing administrative and institutional structures, leading to 'shallow practical reform' (Bäcklund & Mäntysalo, 2010). In a similar vein, others have argued for the need to move beyond the communicative and agonistic divide in participatory practices and, indeed, combine both conceptual perspectives in urban analysis that is more connected to empirical research (Beaumont & Loopmans, 2008;Bond, 2011;Legacy, Metzger, Steele, & Gualini, 2019;Van Wymeersch, Oosterlynck, & Vanoutrive, 2019).…”

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Disrupting Dialogue? The Participatory Urban Governance of Far-Right Contestations in Cottbus

Nettelbladt

2021

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This article investigates how municipal governments negotiate far-right contestations through the format of citizens’ dialogues and contemplates to what extent they disrupt established assumptions about participatory urban governance. In doing so, I want to contribute to emerging scholarship on reactionary responses to migration-led societal transformations in cities via scrutinising their effects on institutional change in participatory practices. Building on participatory urban governance literature and studies on the far right in the social sciences, I argue that inviting far-right articulations into the democratic arena of participation serves to normalise authoritarian and racist positions, as the far right’s demand for more direct involvement of ‘the people’ is expressed in reactionary terms. I will show how this applies to two prominent notions of participation in the literature, namely, agonistic and communicative approaches. This argument is developed through an explorative case study of two neighbourhood-based citizens’ dialogues in Cottbus, East Germany, which the municipal government initiated in response to local far-right rallies. While a careful reading of these forums reveals productive potentials when the issue of international migration is untangled from context-specific, socio-spatial problems in the neighbourhoods, my analysis also shows how the municipality’s negotiation of far-right contestations within the citizens’ dialogues serves to legitimise far-right ideology. I find that to negotiate today’s societal polarisation, municipal authorities need to rethink local participatory institutions by disentangling these complex dynamics and reject far-right contestations, while designing dialogues for democratic and emancipatory learning.

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“…); process versus outcome by mainly communicative planning theorists such as Healey (2003) and Innes and Booher (2015), episteme versus metis by Tironi (2015) and Innes and Booher (2015). The critics of consensus versus conflict dichotomy also included calls for acknowledging the need for both, to be able to conceptualize new ways of participation (Legacy et al, 2019). The dichotomy of passions/emotions versus rationality, originating from mainly Mouffe’s view on passions is not so much problematized as the others and perhaps less explicit than them.…”

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Rationality revisited: Politicisation through planning rationality against the rationality of power

Özdemir

2021

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In this article, I readdress the issue of rationality, which has been so far considered in western liberal democracies and in planning theory as procedural, and more recently as post-political in the post-foundational approach, aiming to show how it can gain a substantive and politicising character. I first discuss the problems and limits of the treatment of rational thinking as well as rational consensus-seeking as merely procedural and post-political. Secondly, utilising the notion of Realrationalität of Flyvbjerg, I discuss how rationality attains a politicising role due to its strong relationship with power. Using the concept of planning rationality aiming at public interest, I present the general position and actions of professional organisations in Turkey, focusing on the Chamber of City Planners, as an example illustrative of my argument. I finally argue that rationality becomes a substantive issue that politicizes planning, when it is put forward as an alternative to authoritarian market logic. In doing so, I adopt the Rancièrian definition of the political, defined as disclosure of a wrong and staging of equality. In conclusion, I first emphasize the importance of avoiding quick rejections of the concepts of rationality and consensus in the framework of planning activity and planning theory and secondly, call for a broader definition of the political; the political that is not confined to conflict but is open to rational thinking and rational consensus.

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Beyond the post-political: Exploring the relational and situated dynamics of consensus and conflict in planning

Cited by 33 publications

References 25 publications

Urban and Spatial Planning: Pragmatic Considerations for Plan Implementation Improvements (A Case Study of the City of Bor)

Urban and Spatial Planning: Pragmatic Considerations for Plan Implementation Improvements (A Case Study of the City of Bor)

Disrupting Dialogue? The Participatory Urban Governance of Far-Right Contestations in Cottbus

Rationality revisited: Politicisation through planning rationality against the rationality of power

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