TY - JOUR
T1 - Reinventing planning and planners
T2 - Ideological decontestations and rhetorical appeals
AU - Davoudi, Simin
AU - Galland, Daniel
AU - Stead, Dominic
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This article contributes to the debate about ideologically motivated planning reforms. It aims to advance the debate by exploring how change is legitimised through forms of rhetorical persuasion. It shows how political ideologies become embedded in planning policies and practices through strategies of legitimation aimed at justifying specific ideas, beliefs and values as self-evident and inevitable. These legitimation strategies rely on distinctive rhetorical appeals to steer planning discourses, policies and institutions. By using short illustrative examples of 'ideology in action' from Britain, Denmark and the Netherlands, the article shows that various combinations of rhetorical appeals to logos, ethos, pathos and doxa (logic, character, emotion and identity) are often simultaneously at work to naturalise contested planning reforms.
AB - This article contributes to the debate about ideologically motivated planning reforms. It aims to advance the debate by exploring how change is legitimised through forms of rhetorical persuasion. It shows how political ideologies become embedded in planning policies and practices through strategies of legitimation aimed at justifying specific ideas, beliefs and values as self-evident and inevitable. These legitimation strategies rely on distinctive rhetorical appeals to steer planning discourses, policies and institutions. By using short illustrative examples of 'ideology in action' from Britain, Denmark and the Netherlands, the article shows that various combinations of rhetorical appeals to logos, ethos, pathos and doxa (logic, character, emotion and identity) are often simultaneously at work to naturalise contested planning reforms.
KW - legitimation
KW - rhetorical appeals
KW - planning reforms
KW - political ideologies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85071461576&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1473095219869386
U2 - 10.1177/1473095219869386
DO - 10.1177/1473095219869386
M3 - Journal article
VL - 19
SP - 17
EP - 37
JO - Planning Theory
JF - Planning Theory
SN - 1473-0952
IS - 1
ER -