Discourse dynamics in participatory planning : opening the bureaucracy to strangers / Diana MacCallum.

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MacCallum, Diana

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780754691013
0754691012
1317149882
9781317149880
1282385275
9781282385276
9786612385278
6612385278

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Discourse dynamics in participatory planning.DDC classification:

307.1/2160994 22

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HT169.A8 .M33 2009eb

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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.

Review: "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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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.