Katie McClymont Katie.Mcclymont@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Urban Planning
Revitalising the political: Development control and Agonism in Planning Practice
McClymont, Katie
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Abstract
This article argues for a new way of valuing development control planning practices in a democratic society: as agonistic political engagement. Using Chantal Mouffe's conception of the political, it counters claims that collaborative and consensus seeking approaches are of higher value than conflicts over site-specific development. In this, the idea of true consensus is an impossibility as some viewpoint has to be excluded from any agreement. Moreover, for democracy to exist, legitimate arenas for the expression of different opinions are needed, without resolution and agreement being the endpoint of discussion. Examples are drawn from discussion in a public inquiry on how meanings assigned to planning policy and the built environment can be part of this agonistic debate. They form the elements building up contradictory arguments about what is 'appropriate' or 'good' for a specific place. The mechanisms of development control provide a legitimate forum for these arguments to be articulated, without consensus or agreement as the ultimate goal. © The Author(s) 2011.
Citation
McClymont, K. (2011). Revitalising the political: Development control and Agonism in Planning Practice. Planning Theory, 10(3), 239-256. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473095211399398
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Aug 1, 2011 |
Deposit Date | Nov 2, 2012 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 29, 2024 |
Journal | Planning Theory |
Print ISSN | 1473-0952 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 10 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 239-256 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/1473095211399398 |
Keywords | development management, dissensus, agonism, Mouffe, consensus |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/960482 |
Publisher URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473095211399398 |
Additional Information | Additional Information : Published online before print: 14th March, 2011 |
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