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Author MacCallum, Diana

Title Discourse dynamics in participatory planning : opening the bureaucracy to strangers / Diana MacCallum
Published Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (207 pages)
Series Urban and regional planning and development series
Urban and regional planning and development.
Contents List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The Age of Participation -- 2 Participatory Planning: A Cross-cultural Meta-practice? -- 3 Science and Politics: DOMM and SMRC -- 4 Practice and Practicality: SOHE and HIC -- 5 Deliberative Ideals: SMRC's Decision Making -- 6 Strange Practices: HIC's Decision Making -- 7 Opening the Bureaucracy -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "Public and stakeholder participation has become an expected part of much bureaucratic decision making. Urban and regional planning, in particular, is now widely perceived as a set of discursive practices involving actors from a range of different lifeworlds. However, planning research has so far paid little attention to the language used in such practices." "This book introduces the methodology of critical discourse analysis (CDA) to the study of participatory planning. Using text-analytical methods, it closely examines the talk between participants in two formal stakeholder committees over five years, during which time they went through several phases of changing power dynamics, conflict and reconciliation. In doing so, the book develops conceptual tools for studying the 'formal talk' of participatory planning committees. It also sheds light on the dynamics of interaction between 'stakeholders' and bureaucracies, particularly with respect to communicative barriers, power inequalities, and the emergence of situated discursive practices."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject City planning -- Australia -- Citizen participation -- Case studies
Regional planning -- Australia -- Citizen participation -- Case studies
Critical discourse analysis -- Australia -- Case studies
City planning -- Citizen participation -- Case studies
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Regional Planning.
City planning -- Citizen participation
Critical discourse analysis
Regional planning -- Citizen participation
participation du citoyen -- urbanisme -- Australie -- étude de cas.
aménagement local -- participation du citoyen -- Australie -- étude de cas.
Australia
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780754691013
0754691012
1317149882
9781317149880
1282385275
9781282385276
9786612385278
6612385278