The framing of power in communicative planning theory: Analysing the work of John Forester, Patsy Healey and Judith Innes

Sammanfattning

In this paper, I analyse the framing of power in streams of communicative planning influenced by American pragmatism, sociological institutionalism and alternative dispute resolution. While scholars have heavily debated Habermasian communicative planning theory, the broader conception of power across these linked, but distinct, streams of the theory remains to be explicated. Through analysis of 40 years' of publishing by John Forester, Patsy Healey and Judith Innes - widely cited representatives of these three streams - a broader account of the treatment of power in communicative planning is established. The analysis shows that the streams of communicative planning provide distinct approaches to power with a joint focus on criticising conflictual illegitimate power over and developing ideas for how consensual power with might arise through agency in the micro practices of planning. Even if communicative planning thereby offers more for reflections on power than critics have acknowledged, the theory still leaves conceptual voids regarding constitutive power to and legitimate power over.

Nyckelord

participatory planning; facilitators; frame analysis; collaborative planning; critical pragmatism; planners; sociological institutionalism; alternative dispute resolution

Publicerad i

Planning Theory
2022, volym: 21, nummer: 2, artikelnummer: 14730952211043219
Utgivare: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC

SLU författare

• Westin, Martin

  • Institutionen för stad och land, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

UKÄ forskningsämne

Statsvetenskap (exklusive studier av offentlig förvaltning och globaliseringsstudier)
Sociologi (exklusive socialt arbete, socialpsykologi och socialantropologi)

Publikationens identifierare

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/14730952211043219

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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/114369