Planning, platforms, participation: city resilience and illegal drugs in Belfast

Boland, Philip; Fox-Rogers, Linda; McKay, Stephen

doi:10.1080/13563475.2019.1609431

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“…Although more collaborative and participatory approaches have been introduced into the planning process, the role of and mechanisms used for engaging the public in planning remain in a state of 'constant flux' (Wilson, Vigar, and Tewdwr-Jones 2020). For our interest, a persistent problem is the 'difficulty of including more disadvantaged and less articulate groups' (Ertiö 2015, 303), from historical 'have-nots' (Arnstein 1969) to contemporary 'silent citizens' (Boland, Fox-Rogers, and McKay 2020). Those marginalized, excluded, and powerlessthrough structural barriers relating to age, gender, sexuality, or educational, class, racial, political background, plus people who choose not to be involved for personal reasons.…”

Section: Theorizing Planning and Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, 'simply inviting the public to participate is insufficient for fostering legitimate and sustainable public engagement' (Gordon, Schirra, and Hollander 2011, 506). Rather, 'silent citizens' must have the power to influence local planning decisions (Boland, Fox-Rogers, and McKay 2020;Jankowski et al 2019). Going back to Arnstein (1969), this involves not just looking at levels of involvement, but rather the quality of involvement and genuine impact this has on plan-making.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A ‘planning revolution’ or an ‘attack on planning’ in England: digitization, digitalization, and democratization

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Durrant

McHenry

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International Planning Studies

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This article focuses on the planning-technology nexus. Recent work explores the potential of digital technology in overcoming the longstanding limitations of a lack of public engagement and citizen empowerment in the planning process. In August 2020, the Government published a White Paper to democratize, digitize, and digitalize the planning system. We interrogate whether these radical reforms constitute a 'planning revolution' or an 'attack on planning'; we focus on two important issues: democratic deficit and digital divide. The article examines how statements about digitization and digitalization may meet the Government's desire to make the planning process more inclusive (i.e. equitable, fair, just) by empowering greater numbers of people to influence planning decisions for their local communities. In this agenda-setting article, we reflect on the English planning landscape; more broadly, we critically reflect on the values and political rhetoric involved in embracing technological innovations, and how these intersect with societal concerns.

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Section: Theorizing Planning and Technologymentioning

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A ‘planning revolution’ or an ‘attack on planning’ in England: digitization, digitalization, and democratization

Boland

Durrant

McHenry

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International Planning Studies

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“…Another major problem in Belfast is the ongoing public displays of ruthless violence linked to the drugs economy. Boland et al (2019) and Hoey (2019) show punishment beatings and killings of alleged drug dealers -the (dis)'empowered youth'? (Belfast City Council, 2017) -by 'dissident' Republicans 14 and Loyalist gangs have escalated dramatically 15 .…”

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“…She refused and this disagreement led to the collapse of the institutions with each party blaming the other. 14 (Boland et al, 2019). the branding campaign, along with a suggestion that the Belfast brand personality can transcend the politics of division:…”

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All aboard Belfast’s ‘brandwagon’: from ‘pariah city’ to ‘energised city’

Boland

McKay

2021

Town Planning Review

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The concept of brand personality is increasingly applied to the contemporary city. During the ‘Troubles’, Belfast - as a ‘pariah city’ - was contaminated with a sclerotic image. Recently it has been rebranded as a ‘post-conflict’ and ‘energised’ city. This paper reveals the significant image transformation in Belfast and its recent engagement with city brand personality. Despite significant progress on destination personality and brand identity, problems remain with regard to brand image and Belfast’s contested past. In addressing the important temporal dimension, this paper adds valuable new insights into our knowledge of city brand personality.

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“…However, Kneecap also comment on the current state of the Republican causespecifically, the Republican gangs that have spawned from the PIRA post-peace process. Before the ceasefire(s) of the 1990s, the PIRA would enact informal community policing to prevent drug-dealing in Catholic communities (Boland, Fox-Rogers, and McKay 2020). Post-ceasefire, new violent dissident Republican groups which emerged in opposition to the Good Friday Agreement continued to enact this community policing, carrying out punishment beatings and kneecappings on suspected drug dealers, and these are still common occurrences in Derry and Belfast (Hourigan et al 2018).…”

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Tiocfaidh Ár Lá, get the brits out, lad: masculinity and nationalism in Irish-language rap videos

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Strange

2021

Social Semiotics

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While the Irish language has long been closely tied to Irish national identity and political nationalism, it has also been strongly associated with the perceived rural, traditional lifestyle of those regions where it remains the everyday community language. These associations have been disrupted with the emergence of Kneecap, bilingual (Irish/English) rappers from West Belfast whose lyrics and visual imagery contain sexual innuendo, references to illicit drug-taking and the IRA, jokes at the expense of the police (P.S.N.I.) and established political parties (notably the Democratic Unionist Party), as well as calling for Irish reunification and an end to the British presence on the island of Ireland. We draw on a theoretical framework which integrates "everyday nationhood"how "ordinary citizens" perform nationalism in everyday lifewith Banerjee's "muscular nationalism", which draws attention to the gendered history of Irish Republicanism. Adopting a multimodal critical discourse analytic approach to the study of gender and language, we analyse four music videos selfpublished by Kneecap on Youtube. We argue that these everyday texts reproduce and disseminate Irish Republicanism while centring normatively masculine identities, although in a way which sets Kneecap apart from previous incarnations of "muscular nationalism".

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Planning, platforms, participation: city resilience and illegal drugs in Belfast

Cited by 4 publications

References 80 publications

A ‘planning revolution’ or an ‘attack on planning’ in England: digitization, digitalization, and democratization

A ‘planning revolution’ or an ‘attack on planning’ in England: digitization, digitalization, and democratization

All aboard Belfast’s ‘brandwagon’: from ‘pariah city’ to ‘energised city’

Tiocfaidh Ár Lá, get the brits out, lad: masculinity and nationalism in Irish-language rap videos

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