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Formatting the citizen? Moving between familiar, planned, and public engagements in the green city. Anders Blok (abl@soc.ku.dk) Associate Professor, Department of Sociology University of Copenhagen, Denmark. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Anders Blok (abl@soc.ku.dk)
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
CIDEA Closing Conference, ‘New Directions in Climate Change Governance’, Copenhagen, October 20-21 2014
Formatting the citizen?
Moving between familiar, planned, and public engagements in the green city
Empirical study: ‘incidental’ citizen activism around the making of Nordhavnen (Copenhagen) into a ‘sustainable’ city district
CIDEA Closing Conference, ‘New Directions in Climate Change Governance’, Copenhagen, October 20-21 2014
Source: COBE, Sleth, Polyform & Rambøll
• Engagement in planning – the citizen as legitimate ‘stakeholder’ with ‘interests’
• Grammar of the liberal public: ‘stakes’ can be made explicit, compared, aggregated etc.
• Justified engagement – the citizen as co-arbiter of the urban ‘common good’
• Grammar of public justification for the common good (market, industrial, civic, green etc.)
• Familiar engagement – the citizen as co-implicated via ‘embodied habituation’ in the site
• Grammar of attachment to common-places, based on shared sense of care and concern
Theoretical framework: ‘regimes of urban engagement’ (Thévenot)
CIDEA Closing Conference, ‘New Directions in Climate Change Governance’, Copenhagen, October 20-21 2014
Planned engagements: formatting the citizen as ‘stakeholder’
CIDEA Closing Conference, ‘New Directions in Climate Change Governance’, Copenhagen, October 20-21 2014
Citizens’ workshop, April 2008, on the future of Nordhavnen (source: By & Havn)
“I hope they will prioritize leisure activities and green spaces” (citizens’ comment, quoted on nordhavnen.dk)
Urban green attachments – activists moving between familiar and public engagements in the green city
Source: “Dreams of life in Nordhavn: a visual hearing response”, The Harbor Committee of Østerbro (made available via personal contact)
CIDEA Closing Conference, ‘New Directions in Climate Change Governance’, Copenhagen, October 20-21 2014
Source: http://stubbenblog.wordpress.com/
Citizen mobilization ‘from above’? A familiar view of planning encroachments (windmills; container terminal)
CIDEA Closing Conference, ‘New Directions in Climate Change Governance’, Copenhagen, October 20-21 2014
Source: Hearing response, FOGUS (available on-line: http://www.ft.dk/)
Concluding remarks: formatting the green (urban) citizen differently?
• Urban planning dominated by practices of formatting citizens as ‘stakeholders’
• Citizen hearings, workshops etc. elicit ‘opinions’ and ‘interests’ in pre-formatted ‘stakes’ – tend to de-encourage citizen engagements based on formats of familiarity and/or justification
• Urban ‘sustainability’ is ‘compromised’ territory – struggles against planning technocracy
• The inevitable moral compromises of ‘sustainability’ (market, civic, green) tend to be unavailable for public inspection, justification and critique (challenge of ‘urban-green technocracy’)
• Towards urban learning forums more hospitable to ‘familiar’ urban-green attachments?
• Citizen concern and care for urban-green issues (incl. ‘climate’) often inseparable from embodied place-based practices – how to facilitate more inclusive forms of shared urban-green learning?
CIDEA Closing Conference, ‘New Directions in Climate Change Governance’, Copenhagen, October 20-21 2014
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