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Historicizing Planning, Problematizing Participation

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ID4382007
AuthorsMargo Huxley (Department of Geography University of Sheffield Winter Street Sheffield S10 2TN UK, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume37
Issue5
Pages1527-1541
Publication date2013-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1468-2427.12045
OpenAlexW1522818559
LanguageEN
Citations received34
References cited67

In this article, I offer speculations which share the intentions of this symposium to bring to light seldom acknowledged configurations of knowledges, and to indicate different ways of thinking historically about urban problems and planning policies. I suggest that a genealogical or critical historical sensibility has much to contribute to these projects by tracing how policies and programmes come into being in response to specific conditions and within specific sets of presuppositions, and are rarely the products of unified histories or singular rationalities. But these policies are also configured in discursive terrains that already shape the form of problems and their possible solutions. That is, before policies or concepts can 'travel', they have to come into being under certain 'conditions of possibility'. The main focus of this article is to suggest that posing a policy, programme or set of practices as a 'problematization' as a consequence of certain conditions of possibility can productively indicate different avenues of enquiry that trace the disparate 'pre-travel' emergences of what may (or may not) then become 'travelling' policies. I indicate some questions and possible research directions arising from taking participation in planning as a particular form of problematization and calling attention to the taken-for-granted nature of 'participation' as it is theorized and practised in the fields of urban planning and participatory development

Citizen journalism · Epistemology · Political science · Presupposition · Problematization · Sociology · Urban planning · Computer Science · Engineering · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Urban Planning and Governance · Water Governance and Infrastructure

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