Reinventing planning and planners: Ideological decontestations and rhetorical appeals

Simin Davoudi, Daniel Galland, Dominic Stead

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
JournalPlanning Theory
Volume19
Issue number1
Pages (from-to)17-37
Number of pages21
ISSN1473-0952
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • legitimation
  • rhetorical appeals
  • planning reforms
  • political ideologies

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  • BEMINE: Beyond MALPE Cordination (International Reference Group)

    Mantysälo, R. (PI), Backlund, P. (CoI), Davoudi, S. (CoI), Næss, P. (CoI), Galland, D. (Project Participant), Stead, D. (Project Participant), Othengrafen, F. (Project Participant) & Hofstad, H. (Project Participant)

    01/07/201631/12/2019

    Project: Research

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