Jean Hillier
Biographic Data
| ID | 3719205 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean Hillier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean |
| FAMILY NAME | Hillier |
| SIGNATURE | HILLIER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 258 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Quiet Activism: Climate Action at the Local Scale
Habitus: A Sense of Place
Contents: Introduction to Second Edition: Committed scholarship, Jean Hillier and Emma Rooksby Introduction to First Edition, Jean Hillier and Emma Rooksby Habitus, Pierre Bourdieu. Politics of Space and Place: Democracy and the question of power, Ernesto Laclau Politics: territorial or non-territorial?, Paul Hirst Toleration and the art of international governance: how is it possible to 'Live Together' in a fragmenting international system?, Gra…
Make kin, not cities! Multispecies entanglements and 'becoming-world' in planning theory
Much planning theory has been undergirded by an ontological exceptionalism of humans. Yet, city planning does not sit outside of the eco-social realities co-producing the Anthropocene. Urban planners and scholars, therefore, need to think carefully and critically about who speaks for (and with) the nonhuman in place making. In this article, we identify two fruitful directions for planning theory to better engage with the imbricated nature of huma…
Ashgate Research Companion to Planning Theory: Conceptual Challenges for Spatial Planning
Is extermination to be the legacy of Mary Gilbert’s cat
Once imported to Australia as rodent controllers, cats are now regarded as responsible for a second wave of mammal extinction across the continent. Utilising the Foucauldian concept of biopolitics, we investigate critically the institutional field of cat regulation in Australia, exemplified by the Western Australian Cat Act 2011 and the Federal Environment Minister’s 10-year campaign to eradicate feral cats. Analysis of the biopolitical dispositi…
When Uncertainty is Interpreted as Risk: An Analysis of Tensions Relating to Spatial Planning Reform in England
The UK Labour government's planning reform (2001-2010) intended to create a more proactive, creative and flexible planning culture. However, as the reforms progressed, public-sector planners increasingly lacked confidence. This article explores texts and contemporaneous interview material through an analysis of uncertainty and risk to present the tensions within the reform narratives, the continually changing context and the provision of contradi…
Deleuzian Dragons: Thinking Chinese Strategic Spatial Planning with Gilles Deleuze
As symbols of adaptability and transformation, together with qualities of vigilance and intelligence, we argue the relevance of dragons for spatial planning in China. We develop a metaphorical concept – the green dragon – for grasping the condition of contemporary Chinese societies and for facilitating the development of theories and practices of spatial planning which are able to face the challenges of rapid change. We ask Chinese scholars and s…
More Than Meat: Rediscovering the Cow beneath the Face in Urban Heritage Practice
I walk fantastically with the cows along the stock route of the former Newmarket saleyards and abattoirs, through what have become the regenerated residential estates of Lynch's Bridge/Kensington Banks in Melbourne, Australia. I challenge the practice of heritage conservation as a closed story of the past ‘as it was’, which projects a set of sanitised meanings that allow for neither subtext nor counter readings. I problematise the concrete machin…
Liquid Spaces of Engagement: Entering the Waves with Antony Gormley and Olafur Eliasson
Antony Gormley's Another Place and Olafur Eliasson's Your watercolour machine exemplify passages and combinations of smooth and striated space as beings of sensation on planes of technical and aesthetic composition. They are frames which striate the smoothness of light, water, molten iron, etc., using scientific planes of reference. Smooth and striated mix as boundaries between visitors’ bodies and installation become permeable. Optic becomes tac…
Introduction: Problematising Urban Social Cohesion: A Transdisciplinary Endeavour
Conceptualising, exploring and operationalising different meanings of social cohesion to make them useful for studying the dynamics of `cities and social cohesion in urban Europe: that is what this Special Issue aims at. It is based on research on `Social Cohesion in European Cities within the FP7-SSHProject Social Polis, the first social platform funded by the EC SSH programme
Encountering Gilles Deleuze in Another Place
Inspired by Deleuze and Foucault, I develop a cartographic methodology of tracing as a new analytical frame with greater insight for spatial planning practice. Working with Foucauldian genealogy and Deleuzean pragmatics, investigation of materialities, in addition to expressivities, facilitates not only exploration of the force relations of power, knowledge and subjectivation, but also of the variable roles which the elements of an assemblage may…
Strategic navigation across multiple planes: Towards a Deleuzean-inspired methodology for strategic spatial planning
I regard strategic spatial planning as an adaptive practice concerned with what can be done in the face of uncertainty. Inspired by Deleuze and Guattari, I present a multiplanar theorisation of strategic spatial planning as strategic navigation, involving both the broad charting out of a trajectory of the longer-term future and also for shorter-term, detailed plans and projects with collaboratively determined goals. I develop a methodology for tr…
Adrian Parr (2009) Hijacking Sustainability , Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 209pp
How could we study climate-related social innovation? Applying Deleuzean philosophy to Transition Towns
The contribution that the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze might offer to researchers studying social innovation in response to climate change is explored. Since the publication of the Stern report, it has been recognised that climate change requires major changes in the way our economy is organised, but it also requires significant social and behavioural change. Can this be usefully viewed through the prism of theories of social innovation? How migh…
Assemblages of Justice: The 'Ghost Ships' of Graythorp
I investigate the issue of dismantling the so-called 'ghost' ships in Graythorp, Hartlepool, as an episode of relational forging of space and contestation between constructs of social and environmental justice. I offer a Deleuzoguattarian-inspired cartography, tracing constructions of justice, injustice and nature with regard to both Hartlepool and the wider issue of ship dismantling. I explore tensions and commonalities between expressed concern…
Planning as Urban Therapeutic
In this paper we seek to present a challenge to the normative prescriptive role of strategic urban planning practice. In effect, we challenge what has traditionally been regarded as the essence of strategic or 'forward' planning: the plan as a statement of what the city ought to become. Using Lacanian-inspired analysis we seek to understand how urban issues may be identified as metaphorical deficiencies or illnesses, to which planners apply a the…
Not over Your Dead Bodies! A Lacanian Interpretation of Urban Planning Discourse and Practice
This paper examines aspects of Lacanian critical social theory in terms of its appropriateness for understanding urban planning. We tell a story from planning practice in Western Australia which we then analyse by introducing Lacan's notion of the master signifier and the sets of knowledges, values and practices which master signifiers embody. We then apply the Lacanian concepts of desire and jouissance, followed by an exploration of the Lacanian…
Trois essais sur le rôle de l'innovation sociale dans le développement territorial
This article, which consists of three interconnected essays, dwells on the meaning and impact of social innovation in societal change, and in particular in territorial development. By way of a condensed literature review, the first essay examines the genesis of the term social innovation in social science and humanities. The second essay focuses on the role of social innovation in theorising the model of the Social Region starting from the articu…
Fighting over the Forests: Environmental Conflict and Decision‐making Capacity in Forest Planning Processes
This paper tells a story of environmental conflict and the attempted political resolution of issues of planning for native forests in Western Australia. It refers to the Western Australian Regional Forest Agreement and Draft Forest Management Plan processes to demonstrate how a range of actors utilise vari‐ous discourses and network relations in attempts to influence governmental decision‐making capacity. Adapting elements of a model of capacity‐…
Going round the Back? Complex Networks and Informal Action in Local Planning Processes
In negotiated land-use planning decisions there may be intractable opposition and the use of strength, strategy, and influence outside of formal public participation processes-forms of communicative behaviour neglected by Habermasian theory. I investigate the empirical reality of the importance of networks and lobbying as a form of informal action in influencing planning outcomes through a case study in Western Australia. I map the networks of so…
Beyond Confused Noise: Ideas Toward Communicative Procedural Justice
In this article, I discuss local planning decision making as a form of public policy making undertaken by the state and involving some degree of public participation. I am interested in communlcative action as a normative basis for participatory decision making of public policy matters. Empirically, however, differences of discourses have led to participants talking past each other rather than negotiating with each other. Using a case study from …
The Gaze In The City: Video Surveillance In Perth
The gaze is a technique of power/knowledge that creates and exploits a new kind of visibility, of organising people so that they can be seen, known, surveilled and controlled. There is a complex interaction between the gaze and power, power and space, space and social subjectivity. Examples from Perth, Western Australia, illustrate how techniques of surveillance are used to gaze on the public, inviting consequent redefinition of what is public an…
Inventing places … Studies in cultural geography
The Unwritten Law of Planning Theory: Common Sense
Sydney
Make kin, not cities! Multispecies entanglements and 'becoming-world' in planning theory
Much planning theory has been undergirded by an ontological exceptionalism of humans. Yet, city planning does not sit outside of the eco-social realities co-producing the Anthropocene. Urban planners and scholars, therefore, need to think carefully and critically about who speaks for (and with) the nonhuman in place making. In this article, we identify two fruitful directions for planning theory to better engage with the imbricated nature of huma…
Strategic navigation across multiple planes: Towards a Deleuzean-inspired methodology for strategic spatial planning
I regard strategic spatial planning as an adaptive practice concerned with what can be done in the face of uncertainty. Inspired by Deleuze and Guattari, I present a multiplanar theorisation of strategic spatial planning as strategic navigation, involving both the broad charting out of a trajectory of the longer-term future and also for shorter-term, detailed plans and projects with collaboratively determined goals. I develop a methodology for tr…
How could we study climate-related social innovation? Applying Deleuzean philosophy to Transition Towns
The contribution that the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze might offer to researchers studying social innovation in response to climate change is explored. Since the publication of the Stern report, it has been recognised that climate change requires major changes in the way our economy is organised, but it also requires significant social and behavioural change. Can this be usefully viewed through the prism of theories of social innovation? How migh…
Assemblages of Justice: The 'Ghost Ships' of Graythorp
I investigate the issue of dismantling the so-called 'ghost' ships in Graythorp, Hartlepool, as an episode of relational forging of space and contestation between constructs of social and environmental justice. I offer a Deleuzoguattarian-inspired cartography, tracing constructions of justice, injustice and nature with regard to both Hartlepool and the wider issue of ship dismantling. I explore tensions and commonalities between expressed concern…
Going round the Back? Complex Networks and Informal Action in Local Planning Processes
In negotiated land-use planning decisions there may be intractable opposition and the use of strength, strategy, and influence outside of formal public participation processes-forms of communicative behaviour neglected by Habermasian theory. I investigate the empirical reality of the importance of networks and lobbying as a form of informal action in influencing planning outcomes through a case study in Western Australia. I map the networks of so…
Beyond Confused Noise: Ideas Toward Communicative Procedural Justice
In this article, I discuss local planning decision making as a form of public policy making undertaken by the state and involving some degree of public participation. I am interested in communlcative action as a normative basis for participatory decision making of public policy matters. Empirically, however, differences of discourses have led to participants talking past each other rather than negotiating with each other. Using a case study from …
Encountering Gilles Deleuze in Another Place
Inspired by Deleuze and Foucault, I develop a cartographic methodology of tracing as a new analytical frame with greater insight for spatial planning practice. Working with Foucauldian genealogy and Deleuzean pragmatics, investigation of materialities, in addition to expressivities, facilitates not only exploration of the force relations of power, knowledge and subjectivation, but also of the variable roles which the elements of an assemblage may…
Is extermination to be the legacy of Mary Gilbert’s cat
Once imported to Australia as rodent controllers, cats are now regarded as responsible for a second wave of mammal extinction across the continent. Utilising the Foucauldian concept of biopolitics, we investigate critically the institutional field of cat regulation in Australia, exemplified by the Western Australian Cat Act 2011 and the Federal Environment Minister’s 10-year campaign to eradicate feral cats. Analysis of the biopolitical dispositi…
Planning as Urban Therapeutic
In this paper we seek to present a challenge to the normative prescriptive role of strategic urban planning practice. In effect, we challenge what has traditionally been regarded as the essence of strategic or 'forward' planning: the plan as a statement of what the city ought to become. Using Lacanian-inspired analysis we seek to understand how urban issues may be identified as metaphorical deficiencies or illnesses, to which planners apply a the…
Not over Your Dead Bodies! A Lacanian Interpretation of Urban Planning Discourse and Practice
This paper examines aspects of Lacanian critical social theory in terms of its appropriateness for understanding urban planning. We tell a story from planning practice in Western Australia which we then analyse by introducing Lacan's notion of the master signifier and the sets of knowledges, values and practices which master signifiers embody. We then apply the Lacanian concepts of desire and jouissance, followed by an exploration of the Lacanian…
Fighting over the Forests: Environmental Conflict and Decision‐making Capacity in Forest Planning Processes
This paper tells a story of environmental conflict and the attempted political resolution of issues of planning for native forests in Western Australia. It refers to the Western Australian Regional Forest Agreement and Draft Forest Management Plan processes to demonstrate how a range of actors utilise vari‐ous discourses and network relations in attempts to influence governmental decision‐making capacity. Adapting elements of a model of capacity‐…
The Unwritten Law of Planning Theory: Common Sense
More Than Meat: Rediscovering the Cow beneath the Face in Urban Heritage Practice
I walk fantastically with the cows along the stock route of the former Newmarket saleyards and abattoirs, through what have become the regenerated residential estates of Lynch's Bridge/Kensington Banks in Melbourne, Australia. I challenge the practice of heritage conservation as a closed story of the past ‘as it was’, which projects a set of sanitised meanings that allow for neither subtext nor counter readings. I problematise the concrete machin…
Introduction: Problematising Urban Social Cohesion: A Transdisciplinary Endeavour
Conceptualising, exploring and operationalising different meanings of social cohesion to make them useful for studying the dynamics of `cities and social cohesion in urban Europe: that is what this Special Issue aims at. It is based on research on `Social Cohesion in European Cities within the FP7-SSHProject Social Polis, the first social platform funded by the EC SSH programme
The Gaze In The City: Video Surveillance In Perth
The gaze is a technique of power/knowledge that creates and exploits a new kind of visibility, of organising people so that they can be seen, known, surveilled and controlled. There is a complex interaction between the gaze and power, power and space, space and social subjectivity. Examples from Perth, Western Australia, illustrate how techniques of surveillance are used to gaze on the public, inviting consequent redefinition of what is public an…
Under the counter: Wages and conditions in retailing
Perth, Australia
Sydney
Inventing places … Studies in cultural geography
The Unwritten Law of Planning Theory: Common Sense
The Gaze In The City: Video Surveillance In Perth
The gaze is a technique of power/knowledge that creates and exploits a new kind of visibility, of organising people so that they can be seen, known, surveilled and controlled. There is a complex interaction between the gaze and power, power and space, space and social subjectivity. Examples from Perth, Western Australia, illustrate how techniques of surveillance are used to gaze on the public, inviting consequent redefinition of what is public an…
Beyond Confused Noise: Ideas Toward Communicative Procedural Justice
In this article, I discuss local planning decision making as a form of public policy making undertaken by the state and involving some degree of public participation. I am interested in communlcative action as a normative basis for participatory decision making of public policy matters. Empirically, however, differences of discourses have led to participants talking past each other rather than negotiating with each other. Using a case study from …
Going round the Back? Complex Networks and Informal Action in Local Planning Processes
In negotiated land-use planning decisions there may be intractable opposition and the use of strength, strategy, and influence outside of formal public participation processes-forms of communicative behaviour neglected by Habermasian theory. I investigate the empirical reality of the importance of networks and lobbying as a form of informal action in influencing planning outcomes through a case study in Western Australia. I map the networks of so…
Fighting over the Forests: Environmental Conflict and Decision‐making Capacity in Forest Planning Processes
This paper tells a story of environmental conflict and the attempted political resolution of issues of planning for native forests in Western Australia. It refers to the Western Australian Regional Forest Agreement and Draft Forest Management Plan processes to demonstrate how a range of actors utilise vari‐ous discourses and network relations in attempts to influence governmental decision‐making capacity. Adapting elements of a model of capacity‐…
Trois essais sur le rôle de l'innovation sociale dans le développement territorial
This article, which consists of three interconnected essays, dwells on the meaning and impact of social innovation in societal change, and in particular in territorial development. By way of a condensed literature review, the first essay examines the genesis of the term social innovation in social science and humanities. The second essay focuses on the role of social innovation in theorising the model of the Social Region starting from the articu…
Not over Your Dead Bodies! A Lacanian Interpretation of Urban Planning Discourse and Practice
This paper examines aspects of Lacanian critical social theory in terms of its appropriateness for understanding urban planning. We tell a story from planning practice in Western Australia which we then analyse by introducing Lacan's notion of the master signifier and the sets of knowledges, values and practices which master signifiers embody. We then apply the Lacanian concepts of desire and jouissance, followed by an exploration of the Lacanian…
Planning as Urban Therapeutic
In this paper we seek to present a challenge to the normative prescriptive role of strategic urban planning practice. In effect, we challenge what has traditionally been regarded as the essence of strategic or 'forward' planning: the plan as a statement of what the city ought to become. Using Lacanian-inspired analysis we seek to understand how urban issues may be identified as metaphorical deficiencies or illnesses, to which planners apply a the…
Assemblages of Justice: The 'Ghost Ships' of Graythorp
I investigate the issue of dismantling the so-called 'ghost' ships in Graythorp, Hartlepool, as an episode of relational forging of space and contestation between constructs of social and environmental justice. I offer a Deleuzoguattarian-inspired cartography, tracing constructions of justice, injustice and nature with regard to both Hartlepool and the wider issue of ship dismantling. I explore tensions and commonalities between expressed concern…
Adrian Parr (2009) Hijacking Sustainability , Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 209pp
How could we study climate-related social innovation? Applying Deleuzean philosophy to Transition Towns
The contribution that the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze might offer to researchers studying social innovation in response to climate change is explored. Since the publication of the Stern report, it has been recognised that climate change requires major changes in the way our economy is organised, but it also requires significant social and behavioural change. Can this be usefully viewed through the prism of theories of social innovation? How migh…
Encountering Gilles Deleuze in Another Place
Inspired by Deleuze and Foucault, I develop a cartographic methodology of tracing as a new analytical frame with greater insight for spatial planning practice. Working with Foucauldian genealogy and Deleuzean pragmatics, investigation of materialities, in addition to expressivities, facilitates not only exploration of the force relations of power, knowledge and subjectivation, but also of the variable roles which the elements of an assemblage may…
Strategic navigation across multiple planes: Towards a Deleuzean-inspired methodology for strategic spatial planning
I regard strategic spatial planning as an adaptive practice concerned with what can be done in the face of uncertainty. Inspired by Deleuze and Guattari, I present a multiplanar theorisation of strategic spatial planning as strategic navigation, involving both the broad charting out of a trajectory of the longer-term future and also for shorter-term, detailed plans and projects with collaboratively determined goals. I develop a methodology for tr…
Liquid Spaces of Engagement: Entering the Waves with Antony Gormley and Olafur Eliasson
Antony Gormley's Another Place and Olafur Eliasson's Your watercolour machine exemplify passages and combinations of smooth and striated space as beings of sensation on planes of technical and aesthetic composition. They are frames which striate the smoothness of light, water, molten iron, etc., using scientific planes of reference. Smooth and striated mix as boundaries between visitors’ bodies and installation become permeable. Optic becomes tac…
Introduction: Problematising Urban Social Cohesion: A Transdisciplinary Endeavour
Conceptualising, exploring and operationalising different meanings of social cohesion to make them useful for studying the dynamics of `cities and social cohesion in urban Europe: that is what this Special Issue aims at. It is based on research on `Social Cohesion in European Cities within the FP7-SSHProject Social Polis, the first social platform funded by the EC SSH programme
Deleuzian Dragons: Thinking Chinese Strategic Spatial Planning with Gilles Deleuze
As symbols of adaptability and transformation, together with qualities of vigilance and intelligence, we argue the relevance of dragons for spatial planning in China. We develop a metaphorical concept – the green dragon – for grasping the condition of contemporary Chinese societies and for facilitating the development of theories and practices of spatial planning which are able to face the challenges of rapid change. We ask Chinese scholars and s…
More Than Meat: Rediscovering the Cow beneath the Face in Urban Heritage Practice
I walk fantastically with the cows along the stock route of the former Newmarket saleyards and abattoirs, through what have become the regenerated residential estates of Lynch's Bridge/Kensington Banks in Melbourne, Australia. I challenge the practice of heritage conservation as a closed story of the past ‘as it was’, which projects a set of sanitised meanings that allow for neither subtext nor counter readings. I problematise the concrete machin…
When Uncertainty is Interpreted as Risk: An Analysis of Tensions Relating to Spatial Planning Reform in England
The UK Labour government's planning reform (2001-2010) intended to create a more proactive, creative and flexible planning culture. However, as the reforms progressed, public-sector planners increasingly lacked confidence. This article explores texts and contemporaneous interview material through an analysis of uncertainty and risk to present the tensions within the reform narratives, the continually changing context and the provision of contradi…
Ashgate Research Companion to Planning Theory: Conceptual Challenges for Spatial Planning
Is extermination to be the legacy of Mary Gilbert’s cat
Once imported to Australia as rodent controllers, cats are now regarded as responsible for a second wave of mammal extinction across the continent. Utilising the Foucauldian concept of biopolitics, we investigate critically the institutional field of cat regulation in Australia, exemplified by the Western Australian Cat Act 2011 and the Federal Environment Minister’s 10-year campaign to eradicate feral cats. Analysis of the biopolitical dispositi…
Habitus: A Sense of Place
Contents: Introduction to Second Edition: Committed scholarship, Jean Hillier and Emma Rooksby Introduction to First Edition, Jean Hillier and Emma Rooksby Habitus, Pierre Bourdieu. Politics of Space and Place: Democracy and the question of power, Ernesto Laclau Politics: territorial or non-territorial?, Paul Hirst Toleration and the art of international governance: how is it possible to 'Live Together' in a fragmenting international system?, Gra…
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (18 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (8 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Geography (6 works)