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Formatting the citizen? Moving between familiar, planned, and public engagements in the green city

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.

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Formatting the citizen? Moving between familiar, planned, and public engagements in the green city

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  1. 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 CIDEA Closing Conference, ‘New Directions in Climate Change Governance’, Copenhagen, October 20-21 2014

  2. Empirical study: ‘incidental’ citizen activism around the making of Nordhavnen (Copenhagen) into a ‘sustainable’ city district Source: COBE, Sleth, Polyform & Rambøll CIDEA Closing Conference, ‘New Directions in Climate Change Governance’, Copenhagen, October 20-21 2014

  3. Theoretical framework: ‘regimes of urban engagement’ (Thévenot) • 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 CIDEA Closing Conference, ‘New Directions in Climate Change Governance’, Copenhagen, October 20-21 2014

  4. Planned engagements: formatting the citizen as ‘stakeholder’ 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) CIDEA Closing Conference, ‘New Directions in Climate Change Governance’, Copenhagen, October 20-21 2014

  5. 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) Source: http://stubbenblog.wordpress.com/ CIDEA Closing Conference, ‘New Directions in Climate Change Governance’, Copenhagen, October 20-21 2014

  6. Citizen mobilization ‘from above’? A familiar view of planning encroachments (windmills; container terminal) Source: Hearing response, FOGUS (available on-line: http://www.ft.dk/) CIDEA Closing Conference, ‘New Directions in Climate Change Governance’, Copenhagen, October 20-21 2014

  7. 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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