Deconstructing the stakeholder: A case study from Garig Gunak Barlu National Park, Australia

deKoninck, Vanessa

doi:10.1080/17451590709618164

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“…In fact, the language of ‘stakeholders’ derives from corporate governance practices (fundamentally as a way of dismissing class conflict on the shop floor or within the markets and environments that corporations operate in). It is a flattening language that assumes that all relevant interests are already accounted for and that they all have an equal say (De Koninck, 2007; Kuymulu, 2011, 2014). And yet it requires that each stakeholder comes to the table already agreeing on fundamental issues; they are not at stake, since they are already settled.…”

Section: What Is Post-politics?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Whose city? What politics? Contentious and non-contentious spaces on Colorado’s Front Range

2014

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Drawing on research from Colorado's Front Range (the Denver/Boulder metropolitan area), this paper examines the validity of the 'post-political' hypothesis for explaining contentiousness and non-contentiousness in urban space. Examining major urban redevelopment efforts in Denver and a controversy over homeless people sleeping in public space in Boulder, we suggest that the literature on post-politics too narrowly circumscribes the realm of political action and in so doing loses analytical force and risks misunderstanding the nature of political engagement in the city. By contrast, a less circumscribed, more supple definition of politics allows for a better understanding of how the question of 'Whose City?'-who the city is for -is always up for grabs. The appearance of post-political consensus, when it occurs, is itself a political achievement, the making of a hegemony, not an explanation.

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Section: What Is Post-politics?mentioning

confidence: 99%