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Community-led housing and health: a comprehensive literature review (2019)
Report
Griffin, E., McClymont, K., Carmichael, L., & Marsh, R. (2019). Community-led housing and health: a comprehensive literature review. Power to Change

This report examines existing literature on the relationship between community-led housing (CLH) and health and wellbeing, with a particular focus on identifying what evidence is available and where future research may further strengthen this knowled... Read More about Community-led housing and health: a comprehensive literature review.

‘Do we really want these changes?’ Power, conflict, and ‘best practice’ in community planning (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Sheppard, A., McClymont, K., & Croft, N. (2019, July). ‘Do we really want these changes?’ Power, conflict, and ‘best practice’ in community planning. Paper presented at AESOP, Venice

This research was a collaborative project between Up Our Street (https://upourstreet.org.uk/) and the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, UWE funded and supported by the Community University Partnership Initiative, which is part of... Read More about ‘Do we really want these changes?’ Power, conflict, and ‘best practice’ in community planning.

Spaces of secular faith? Shared assets and intangible values in diverse, changing communities (2019)
Journal Article
McClymont, K. (2019). Spaces of secular faith? Shared assets and intangible values in diverse, changing communities. Implicit Religion, 21(2), 142-164. https://doi.org/10.1558/imre.37013

In the current political climate, questions of shared identities, inclusive communities and public spaces are of utmost urgency. Compounded by the context of austerity, the value and purpose of public spaces is under question. This paper argues that... Read More about Spaces of secular faith? Shared assets and intangible values in diverse, changing communities.

Planners of the future, planning for the future? (2019)
Journal Article
Hickman, H., McClymont, K., & Sheppard, A. (2019). Planners of the future, planning for the future?

This article considers the potential mismatch between the aspirations of planners in education and the realities of practice.

Credibility in the absence of legitimacy (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Sheppard, A., & McClymont, K. (2018, July). Credibility in the absence of legitimacy. Paper presented at AESOP 2018: Making space for hope, Gothenburg

This presentation considers the motivations for those who chose to live beyond ‘the system’; outside of mainstream regulated society and, particularly, formal town and country planning frameworks. The paper presents research which compares the moti... Read More about Credibility in the absence of legitimacy.

‘They have different ways of doing things’: Cemeteries, diversity and local place attachment (2018)
Journal Article
McClymont, K. (2018). ‘They have different ways of doing things’: Cemeteries, diversity and local place attachment. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 39(3), 267-285. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2018.1459519

This paper explores how local place attachment and group identity are conceived by those who manage civic cemeteries, and those who, by their memorial practices, co-create them. Engaging with debates about (post)colonialism and belonging, the paper p... Read More about ‘They have different ways of doing things’: Cemeteries, diversity and local place attachment.

Articulating virtue: Planning ethics within and beyond post politics (2018)
Journal Article
McClymont, K. (2019). Articulating virtue: Planning ethics within and beyond post politics. Planning Theory, 18(3), 282-299. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473095218773119

© The Author(s) 2018. Post-foundationalist political theories have provided some of the most radical tools of critique in recent years. As well as challenging the dominant orthodoxy of achieving consensus in decision-making, they give voice to claims... Read More about Articulating virtue: Planning ethics within and beyond post politics.

Deathscapes and diversity: Making space for minorities' and migrants' bodily remains, ritual and remembrance practice (2017)
Presentation / Conference
McClymont, K., Maddrell, A., & Beebeejaun, Y. (2017, March). Deathscapes and diversity: Making space for minorities' and migrants' bodily remains, ritual and remembrance practice. Paper presented at Transmortality International: Materiality and Spatiality of Death, Burial and Commemoration - See more at: https://transmortality.uni.lu/Conference-2017#sthash.9QeHuxDo.dpuf, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

Issues around migration, and the desires and requirements of migrants are especially topical in contemporary UK and European contexts, however there is limited academic or policy consideration of this in relation to death, dying, burial and mourning... Read More about Deathscapes and diversity: Making space for minorities' and migrants' bodily remains, ritual and remembrance practice.

Remembering the future: New cemeteries and the paradox of planning for heterotopic space (2016)
Presentation / Conference
McClymont, K. (2016, September). Remembering the future: New cemeteries and the paradox of planning for heterotopic space. Paper presented at UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference 2016: Planning for Future Generations, Cardiff, Wales

Despite awareness of issues affecting an aging population, planning policy has very little to say about cemeteries, crematoria and other ‘deathscapes’. A review of contemporary development plans has revealed that fewer than 20% of English local autho... Read More about Remembering the future: New cemeteries and the paradox of planning for heterotopic space.

‘They have different ways of doing things’. Cemeteries, diversity and local place attachment’ (2016)
Presentation / Conference
McClymont, K. (2016, August). ‘They have different ways of doing things’. Cemeteries, diversity and local place attachment’. Paper presented at RGS-IGB Annual International Conference, Kensington, London

This paper draws on research from cemeteries in the UK which explores their role in presenting and promoting local identity, and accommodating multifaith and multicultural practices. It draws on interviews with cemetery managers, and researcher taken... Read More about ‘They have different ways of doing things’. Cemeteries, diversity and local place attachment’.

Articulating virtue: Planning ethics within and beyond post politics (2016)
Presentation / Conference
McClymont, K. (2016, June). Articulating virtue: Planning ethics within and beyond post politics. Paper presented at Moving beyond conflict in planning: Towards a critical consensus politics?, Barcelona, Spain

Post foundationalist political theories have provided some of the most radical tools of critique in recent years. As well as challenging the dominant orthodoxy of achieving consensus in decision-making, they give voice to claims that the world can be... Read More about Articulating virtue: Planning ethics within and beyond post politics.

‘That eccentric use of land at the top of the hill’: Cemeteries and stories of the city (2016)
Journal Article
McClymont, K. (2016). ‘That eccentric use of land at the top of the hill’: Cemeteries and stories of the city. Mortality, 21(4), 378-396. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2016.1151865

Most contemporary research accounts for conflict within cemetery space, but does not consider the potentially contested and poorly understood role of cemeteries within their broader cityscape. This study draws on stories from cemetery managers across... Read More about ‘That eccentric use of land at the top of the hill’: Cemeteries and stories of the city.

Postsecular planning? The idea of municipal spirituality (2015)
Journal Article
McClymont, K. (2015). Postsecular planning? The idea of municipal spirituality. Planning Theory and Practice, 16(4), 535-554. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2015.1083116

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. In the contemporary political context, religion is rarely out of the news, usually postulated as a regressive force, battling against modern liberal Western values. However, in everyday life, and specifically with regard to... Read More about Postsecular planning? The idea of municipal spirituality.

Stuck in the Process, Facilitating Nothing? Justice, Capabilities and Planning for Value-Led Outcomes (2014)
Journal Article
McClymont, K. (2014). Stuck in the Process, Facilitating Nothing? Justice, Capabilities and Planning for Value-Led Outcomes. Planning Practice and Research, 29(2), 187-201. https://doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2013.872899

The role of a planner as collaborative facilitator has come under renewed criticism, from both planning theory and planning practice. This paper explores how placing values of equity and justice at the centre of planning practice offers practitioners... Read More about Stuck in the Process, Facilitating Nothing? Justice, Capabilities and Planning for Value-Led Outcomes.

Revitalising the political: Development control and Agonism in Planning Practice (2011)
Journal Article
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

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 se... Read More about Revitalising the political: Development control and Agonism in Planning Practice.

Researching men: The politics and possibilities of a qualitative mixed-methods approach (2009)
Journal Article
Mcclymont, K., & Meth, P. (2009). Researching men: The politics and possibilities of a qualitative mixed-methods approach. Social and Cultural Geography, 10(8), 809. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649360903305775

Explicit consideration of the nature and workings of different qualitative methods for researching men are relatively uncommon within geography. Building on work which explores ethnographies, ethical concerns and questions about fieldwork, this paper... Read More about Researching men: The politics and possibilities of a qualitative mixed-methods approach.

"We're not NIMBYs!" Contrasting local protest groups with idealised conceptions of sustainable communities (2008)
Journal Article
O'Hare, P., & Mcclymont, K. (2008). "We're not NIMBYs!" Contrasting local protest groups with idealised conceptions of sustainable communities. Local Environment, 13(4), 321-335. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549830701803273

The term "NIMBY" is used prolifically in both academic literature and general public discourse to describe a locally based action group protesting against a proposed development. It is frequently used to dismiss groups as selfish or ill-informed, as... Read More about "We're not NIMBYs!" Contrasting local protest groups with idealised conceptions of sustainable communities.