Territorial Cohesion Discourses: Hegemonic Strategic Concepts in European Spatial Planning

Servillo, Loris Antonio

doi:10.1080/14649357.2010.500135

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“…Davoudi, 2005;Doucet, 2006;Evers, 2008;Schön, 2005;Servillo, 2010). The most noticeable confusion associated with the concept is a simultaneous promotion of the principle of solidarity and also the competitiveness of European regions and Europe as a whole.…”

Section: Territorial Cohesion In Current Eu Planning Doctrinementioning

confidence: 99%

European territorial cohesion policies: Parallels to socialist central planning?

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Mulíček

2016

Moravian Geographical Reports

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Section: Territorial Cohesion In Current Eu Planning Doctrinementioning

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European territorial cohesion policies: Parallels to socialist central planning?

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Mulíček

2016

Moravian Geographical Reports

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“…Of course, such hegemony is never complete. Traditional Marxist approaches, such as that of Fox-Rogers and Murphy (2014), further discussed in the following, as well as Post-marxist takes such as those of Grange (2014), Servillo (2010) and updated versions of Critical Theory and other neo-marxist approaches also exist side-by-side with this current mainstream of critical planning studies. 2.…”

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

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The purpose of this article is to contribute to the development of new theoretical and methodological resources for analysing power dynamics in planning studies. Our overarching aim is to demystify the concept of 'power' and what it purports to be describing, making those practices grouped under this label more tangible and, hence, also more readily contestable. Investigating how the effects we label as power are produced, instead of using 'power' as an allcovering explanation of societal events, demands a conceptualization of power as the outcome of social processes rather than as a causal variable behind them. An empirical study of a referendum regarding a major urban development in a Swedish suburban municipality illustrates how strong assumptions regarding the dominance of, for example, pre-existing powerful actor-constellations or purely economic relations are not always very helpful, highlighting the need for more acute attentiveness to the micro-physics of power.

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“…The choice of risks recognised by Servillo (2010) is then between strategic value and credibility. The attempt to define territorial cohesion in a definite technocratic way could namely lead to the detriment of its strategic role of policy-orientating for European spatial planning, as it becomes less inspiring then (Servillo, 2010: p. 412).…”

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Opening up das Schloβ: Creating Room for Thinking by Combining the Territorial Cohesion Discourse and the Debate on the European Union Polity

Muller¹

2016

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To widen the debate about territorial cohesion, one can have a look at political science. We can namely critique the territorial cohesion discourse's exclusion of reasoning about the political by showing the relevance of the simultaneous debate on the European Union polity. It thereby also comes forward that the concept's power practices illustrate the bureaucratic, multi-level, polycentric, and network governance in flux that characterizes this polity. The territorial cohesion discourse might then exemplify how this opaque organization of governing leads to and is made possible by an associated form of expertise, which raises new questions on the role of social and spatial science in our society.

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Territorial Cohesion Discourses: Hegemonic Strategic Concepts in European Spatial Planning

Cited by 59 publications

References 18 publications

European territorial cohesion policies: Parallels to socialist central planning?

European territorial cohesion policies: Parallels to socialist central planning?

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

Opening up das Schloβ: Creating Room for Thinking by Combining the Territorial Cohesion Discourse and the Debate on the European Union Polity

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