Anders Blok ([email protected]) 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
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Formatting the citizen? Moving between familiar, planned, and public engagements in the green city
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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