IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/cipsxx/v17y2012i1p85-101.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Tokenism or Political Activism? Some Reflections on Participatory Planning

Author

Listed:
  • Valeria Monno
  • Abdul Khakee

Abstract

With the communicative turn in planning theory and the emergence of governance, public participation has become a central issue with respect to inclusionary discourse and the institutionalization of more democratic planning practices. A multitude of participatory planning practices have been implemented with reference to different theoretical perspectives and technical approaches ranging from the traditional to the radical model. Although the current debate about these different participatory activities has brought to the fore an increasing gap between rhetoric and the reality of various models, there are few attempts to compare them in practice. A comparison of participatory activities according to traditional/tokenist and radical models, respectively, should be of interest in the current debate on the crisis of participatory planning and barriers to the institutionalization of participatory planning. This paper discusses tokenist participation in the development planning of Hammarby Sjöstad in Stockholm, Sweden and political activism in a deprived community, Enziteto in Bari, Italy. These two different examples of planner–'community' interaction show the necessity to understand power politics that underlie the ideal of public participation in planning.

Suggested Citation

  • Valeria Monno & Abdul Khakee, 2012. "Tokenism or Political Activism? Some Reflections on Participatory Planning," International Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(1), pages 85-101.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:cipsxx:v:17:y:2012:i:1:p:85-101
    DOI: 10.1080/13563475.2011.638181
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13563475.2011.638181
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/13563475.2011.638181?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Nanke Verloo, 2023. "Ignoring people: The micro-politics of misrecognition in participatory governance," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 41(7), pages 1474-1491, November.
    2. Torill Nyseth & Torill Ringholm & Annika Agger, 2019. "Innovative Forms of Citizen Participation at the Fringe of the Formal Planning System," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 4(1), pages 7-18.
    3. Laes, Erik & Mayeres, Inge & Renders, Nele & Valkering, Pieter & Verbeke, Stijn, 2018. "How do policies help to increase the uptake of carbon reduction measures in the EU residential sector? Evidence from recent studies," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 94(C), pages 234-250.
    4. Jialing Yan & Yan Huang & Shuying Tan & Wei Lang & Tingting Chen, 2023. "Jointly Creating Sustainable Rural Communities through Participatory Planning: A Case Study of Fengqing County, China," Land, MDPI, vol. 12(1), pages 1-22, January.
    5. Markus Hanisch & Tuba Inal-Çekiç, 2014. "Cooperative Response to Urban Transformation: Lessons from Istanbul," ERSA conference papers ersa14p228, European Regional Science Association.
    6. Martina Schretzenmayr & Simona Casaulta-Meyer, 2016. "Learning through communicating with the public," Planning Practice & Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(5), pages 552-567, October.
    7. Pataki, György & Bajmócy, Zoltán & Málovics, György & Gébert, Judit, 2019. "Miről szól(hatna) a felelősségteljes kutatás és innováció?. Rendszerkonform versus transzformatív megközelítés [What is responsible research and innovation about? Contrasting the reform and transfo," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(3), pages 286-304.
    8. Michael G. Hunter & Alessandro Soro & Ross A. Brown & Joel Harman & Tan Yigitcanlar, 2022. "Augmenting Community Engagement in City 4.0: Considerations for Digital Agency in Urban Public Space," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(16), pages 1-25, August.
    9. Giada Casarin & Julie MacLeavy & David Manley, 2023. "Rethinking urban utopianism: The fallacy of social mix in the 15-minute city," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 60(16), pages 3167-3186, December.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:cipsxx:v:17:y:2012:i:1:p:85-101. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/cips20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.