If Foucault were an urban planner: An epistemology of power in planning theories
Power has always been an obvious presumption in planning theory. At times it has been considered as a one-way, top-down, instrumental and rational dominance while at other times, planning theory, in more fortunate moments, has tried to divide concepts of power between different actors through a comm...
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| author | Seyed Navid Mashhadi Moghadam Mojtaba Rafieian |
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| description | Power has always been an obvious presumption in planning theory. At times it has been considered as a one-way, top-down, instrumental and rational dominance while at other times, planning theory, in more fortunate moments, has tried to divide concepts of power between different actors through a communicative rationality-based process. This article locates Foucault’s theory of power in relation to recent planning theories as a magnifier in order to reveal the invisible or neglected lines of urban planning theories. The paper shows how the epistemology of power occurs in the six urban planning theories of synoptic, incremental, transactive, advocacy, bargaining and communicative. Finally, the main point of Foucault’s power theory will be derived into two suppositions: firstly, where planning results from the normalization of free and formal subjects when the power game of the government has been rejected; secondly, the characteristics of planning and planner from a power point of view are explained by understanding planning as an opportunity for the presence of power and resistance. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-43769d231b3c40169567c91383e2be692022-12-21T23:02:06ZengTaylor & Francis GroupCogent Arts & Humanities2331-19832019-01-016110.1080/23311983.2019.15920651592065If Foucault were an urban planner: An epistemology of power in planning theoriesSeyed Navid Mashhadi Moghadam0Mojtaba Rafieian1Tarbiat Modares UniversityTarbiat Modares UniversityPower has always been an obvious presumption in planning theory. At times it has been considered as a one-way, top-down, instrumental and rational dominance while at other times, planning theory, in more fortunate moments, has tried to divide concepts of power between different actors through a communicative rationality-based process. This article locates Foucault’s theory of power in relation to recent planning theories as a magnifier in order to reveal the invisible or neglected lines of urban planning theories. The paper shows how the epistemology of power occurs in the six urban planning theories of synoptic, incremental, transactive, advocacy, bargaining and communicative. Finally, the main point of Foucault’s power theory will be derived into two suppositions: firstly, where planning results from the normalization of free and formal subjects when the power game of the government has been rejected; secondly, the characteristics of planning and planner from a power point of view are explained by understanding planning as an opportunity for the presence of power and resistance.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2019.1592065powerplanning theoriesepistemologyfoucault |
| spellingShingle | Seyed Navid Mashhadi Moghadam Mojtaba Rafieian If Foucault were an urban planner: An epistemology of power in planning theories Cogent Arts & Humanities power planning theories epistemology foucault |
| title | If Foucault were an urban planner: An epistemology of power in planning theories |
| title_full | If Foucault were an urban planner: An epistemology of power in planning theories |
| title_fullStr | If Foucault were an urban planner: An epistemology of power in planning theories |
| title_full_unstemmed | If Foucault were an urban planner: An epistemology of power in planning theories |
| title_short | If Foucault were an urban planner: An epistemology of power in planning theories |
| title_sort | if foucault were an urban planner an epistemology of power in planning theories |
| topic | power planning theories epistemology foucault |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2019.1592065 |
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