Three performativities of innovation in public transport planning

Abstract

The article scrutinises planners' stories of innovation in contemporary public transport planning in three Scandinavian contexts (Denmark, Sweden and Norway). This analysis is accomplished by adapting Judith Butler's post-structural feminist critical theory on performativity to the planning context. This theoretical framework is used to illuminate how planning is dynamically renewed, revised and consolidated over time by the individual routine actions of planners. From this perspective, the research identifies a set of repetitive acts -as recognising specific windows of opportunity, anticipate and respond to political signals and create arguments and means of communication and persuasion -that constitute the contemporary transformation of professional practice in relation to planning politics. This analytics of performativity reveals how professional planning practices engage with transformative capacities of reshaping, re-enacting and re-experiencing guidance for the future within a set of meanings and forms of legitimation. These findings are intended to contribute to present and future planning practice and education in Scandinavian countries and elsewhere. IntroductionPlanning is performed by a plurality of actors, discourses and practice stories as well as by professional practices (Forester, 1993;Innes, 1995;Sandercock, 2003;Versteeg and Hajer, 2010). In this study, we focus on this last dimension to explore how, through their practice, professional planners aspire to and engage with the transformative capacities of reshaping, reenacting and re-experiencing guidance for the future within a set of meanings and forms of legitimation, or how they shape the politics of planning practice.This issue is particularly important and controversial at a time when the authority of the public planner is being challenged and transformed by institutional reforms and new governance dynamics (e.g. Clifford, 2007). Critical academic debates have long questioned professionalism in planning. These debates are given renewed emphasis by the current transformation of professional planning practice that is emerging in relation to discussions of state restructuring, identity and values in advanced liberal democracies (Campbell, Marshall, 2005;Campbell, 2010;Inch, 2012;Grange, 2013;2014). The academic debate over the

Innowacje w transporcie publicznym

“…Analiza wydajności pozwala na ocenę, jak istotne jest przy realizacji projektu nie odpowiednie dzielenie ról, ale konkretne działanie. To pozwala na przykład zupełnie zmienić podejście do planowania transportu publicznego (Lissandrello., Hrelja., Tennøy i Richardson, 2017).…”