‘Power’ is that which remains to be explained: Dispelling the ominous dark matter of critical planning studies

Metzger, Jonathan; Soneryd, Linda; Hallström, Kristina Tamm

doi:10.1177/1473095215622502

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“…Our main goal is to demystify the concept of "power" and what it wants to describe, and to make this practice, grouped under this label, more tangible, and therefore also more easily contestable. Studying how effects are produced, which we call force, instead of using "power" as an all-encompassing explanation of social events, requires the conceptualization of power in the capacity of a result, and not as a cause variable behind them" [8].…”

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confidence: 99%

Mediatization of Politics as an Element of Noopolitics

Nikonov¹,

Labush²,

Puiy³

et al. 2018

IJET

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The work deals with the study of information strategy, namely noopolitics. In the course of the work, it has been revealed that one of the elements of the information strategy formation is the need to mediatize political processes. The understanding of political processes mediatization is considered in the part devoted to the scientific research outcomes. The work also considers a phenomenon such as rumours. This is not fake news, which is so often mentioned by politicians, but political reality, which is also an element of noopolitics. The main part of the work deals with the results of the implementation of the noopolitics when preparing and carrying out presidential elections in 2018, and the role of foreign states and politicians in strengthening power in Russia.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mediatization of Politics as an Element of Noopolitics

Nikonov¹,

Labush²,

Puiy³

et al. 2018

IJET

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“…This demands to assess transformative agency and processes also in terms of their spatial-material relations-and the value orientations these support. Second, the above ontological conception of transformative capacity closely aligns with relational understandings of power and their application to contexts of sociotechnical transitions and planning (Avelino and Rotmans 2011;Avelino and Wittmayer 2016;Avelino 2017;Metzger et al 2017). Interpreting power as the ''(in)capacity of actors to mobilize resources and institutions to achieve a goal'' (Avelino 2017, p. 507) suggests that in reverse, the notion of urban TC corresponds to the type of power that effectuates deep and holistic urban change, resulting from particular forms of agency and interactions in a given institutional and spatial-material setting.…”

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Urban transformative capacity: From concept to practice

Wolfram

Borgström

Farrelly

2019

Ambio

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Urban transformations form a central challenge for enabling global pathways towards sustainability and resilience. However, it remains unclear what kind of capacity is needed to deliver urban change that is actually transformative. Against a backdrop of current claims and efforts to achieve urban transformations, this special issue reviews the relational concept of urban transformative capacity and how it can inform novel approaches in research, policy, and practice. Drawing on seven papers analyzing diverse empirical contexts, we identify four requirements that should guide future action: (1) foster inclusion and empowerment as prerequisites, (2) close the intermediation gap and strengthen the role of local academia, (3) challenge and reinvent urban planning as a key arena, and (4) enhance reflexivity through novel selfassessment techniques. Overall, current levels of urban transformative capacity are assessed as very low, making its development a high-priority objective for all stakeholders, but for planning and research policy in particular.

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“…These are part of the 'dividing practices' that Foucault considered were particularly important to study (1982: 208) and, by studying these, it is possible to avoid the more structuralist tendencies of Foucault's thought, including the assumption of objective interests as a baseline for studying the effects of power (Metzger et al, 2017).…”

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Silences, categories and black-boxes: Towards an analytics of the relations of power in planning regulation

Rydin

2019

Planning Theory

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Regulation is often considered as an arena of conflicts, where power is exercised by the state or developers. This article looks beyond this to consider how power operates in a distributed way through the relationships of the regulatory process. It develops a theoretical framing drawing on Foucauldian and Actor–Network Theory perspectives that emphasises the securing of consent, performativity and the interrelation of knowledge and power . Using research into the regulation of major renewable energy infrastructure, it develops an analytics of power looking at silences, categorisation and black-boxing. This shows how power is operationalised through regulatory practice, so that local communities’ concerns are only partially heard, differential attention is paid to project impacts and knowledge claims are selectively warranted as an evidence-base.

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‘Power’ is that which remains to be explained: Dispelling the ominous dark matter of critical planning studies

Cited by 23 publications

References 40 publications

Mediatization of Politics as an Element of Noopolitics

Mediatization of Politics as an Element of Noopolitics

Urban transformative capacity: From concept to practice

Silences, categories and black-boxes: Towards an analytics of the relations of power in planning regulation

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