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Narratives of power: bringing ideology to the fore of planning analysis
This Special Issue starts from the premise that the concept of ideology holds significant analytical potential for planning but that this potential can only be realised if ideology is brought to the fore of analysis. By naming ideology and rendering it visible, we hope to bring it out from the shadows and into the open to examine its value and what it can tell us about the politics of contemporary planning. The papers in this Special Issue therefore seek to contribute to established academic debates by exploring some of the ways ideology can be deployed as a tool in the analysis of planning problems. This article introduces the Special Issue by exploring the various accounts in the papers of i. what ideology is; ii. what its effects are; iii. where ideology may be identified and iv. what different theories of ideology can tell us about planning. There inevitably remain many un-answered questions, paths not taken and debates left unaddressed. We hope other scholars will be inspired (or provoked) to address these omissions in the future
The new planning, and the new planner: Modernisation, culture change and the regulation of professional identities in English local planning
Reforms to the English planning system introduced from 2001 by the New Labour
government under the rubric of "modernisation" have made a series of claims to
revitalise planning as a governmental and professional activity. In order to realise
the ambitious goals of reform there have been widespread calls for a "culture
change", particularly amongst professional planners in the public sector. The
discourse of culture change is rooted in the managerialist thinking that has been
central to long-term processes of state restructuring, and suggests a concern to
regulate the attitudes and identities of workers.
The thesis aims to interrogate the claims that have been made for a reformed
planning system and practice. In so doing it seeks to uncover the cultural politics
of modernisation, assessing the ways in which the discourses of reform have
targeted and sought to change local planning cultures and planners' roles and
identities. It therefore opens up identity as an analytical lens for assessing the
modernisation of planning.
I argue that the modemisation agenda has been marked by a series of tensions,
simultaneously positioning planners as the agents of modernisation, but also as
objects to be modernised. Reform has therefore imposed a considerable burden
on planners as they seek to understand what is expected of them, and negotiate
their professional identities in the midst of a complex set of changes that have
intensified the demands of their practice. This suggests the need for greater
attentiveness to the lived experience of processes of reform, and its impacts on
those charged with realising change
A contribution to epidemiology : the incidence of epidemic disease among troops and civilians in a war zone, with particular reference to diarrhoeal diseases
It was through a retreating rabble of disorganised
infantry, who had flung away rifles and all military
accoutrements in their retiral, that the British
Troops, early in November 1917, marched up to the
forward area on the Italian front.To anyone not acquainted with all the circumstances
of the case, and particularly if one is ignorant
of the Italian temperament, the retreat of the
Italian Army, which started from the sector round the
little Alpine village of Caporetto on 24th October
1917, is well-nigh in explicable. All the more so if
one knew what prodigies o f valour they had accomplished
since th eir entry into the World War on 24th May
1915 - their final war of the "Risorgimento" with all
it meant to the Italian idealist longing for the fulfilment
of Garibaldiâs dream of "Italia Redenta" -
Italy Redeemed.In their first rush after declaring war, the
Italians had carried their 300 mile front of high
Alps into Austrian territory. Monte Sabatino, an
almost impregnable mountain, together with a devastating
outbreak of Cholera (14,000 cases with a mortality of 46%) delayed the capture of Gorizia until
August 1916 by an offensive on a gigantic scale on
the Isonzo and Carso on terrain whose immense difficulties must be seen to be believed. The Carso in
particular, a vast limestone table land in which
trenches had to be blasted, without shade or shelter
and practically waterless, was a fit scene for warfare
such as only a Dante could conceive.And yet step by step on the Carso and Isonzo and
the Higher Alps, the Italian advance forged slowly on
though at terrible cost, with Trieste as the objective.Further great offensives from Plava and Gorizia
during May to September in 1917 with victories at
Monte Kuk, Monte Santo, San Gabriele and on the
Bainsizza plateau, saw the Italians reach the highwater
mark of their successes.And then this wonderful army which had done impossibly
brave things, performed engineering and
mountaineering feats almost incredible, suddenly
collapsed. The depths o f the Caporetto disaster were
possible only because the Italian Army was capable of
such wonderful heights.Over two years had been spent in the trenches
amid in credible hardships and dangers: skilful diffusion
of enemy propaganda acted with volcanic effect
on volatile temperaments already further depressed by
news of the hardships endured by the women and children
at home. To crown all the sector at Caporetto was
held by regiments which had shortly before received
large drafts of disaffected pacifist strikers from the
commercial cities of central Italy.The military genius of Ludendorff chose the
psychological place and time, and thus it was that in
November 1917 French and British troops, hastily withdrawn
from the western front, found themselves marching
up to the Italian front through retreating troops who
had shed the last vestige of their morale.The Caporetto disaster and all that followed disorganised
not only the fighting portion of the Italian
Army, but all the administrative services as well,
including of course the medical service.Large numbers of hospitals with all their equipment
and innumerable medical officers with their
staffs were captured or lost during those dark days;
and when the reorganisation of the Italian Army took
place, this loss both of personnel and material was
difficult to replace.More civilian practitioners had to be called up
to replace these numerous casualties and this undoubtedly
affected adversely the civilian population
who were left with an in sufficient number of overworked
doctors.Add to this the tremendous congestion in the
Zona di Guerra caused by the presence not only of most
of the original poorer inhabitants, but of considerable
numbers of refugees from the occupied territory, and
the presence too of vast numbers of troops - Italian,
French and British - and the wonder is that the incidence
of epidemic disease was not infinitely greater
than it turned out to be
Jihad and Hashtags: Women\u27s Roles in the Islamic State and Pro-Jihadist Social Networks
Over a one-year period from January 2015 to January 2016, a team of researchers collected nearly 100,000 Tweets from female operated Twitter accounts that exhibited pro-Islamic State (IS) affiliations. The following exploratory research paper aims to address two questions: (1) will identifiable patterns of engagement be revealed through a thematic analysis of Tweets posted by pro-IS women?, and (2) do these patterns illuminate the roles pro-IS women occupy online and in real-time social networks? This research paper intends to challenge the gendered assumption that women play strictly supportive roles within the boundaries of the IS, and demonstrate that IS female supporters fulfill multiple roles in online and real-time social networks. This paper will outline the eight roles identified using a thematic content analysis of pro-IS womenâs Tweets. The main findings reveal that pro-IS women primarily fulfill supportive roles, but that they also play a variety of non-traditional roles as well, such as recruiters and even terrorists. This knowledge of how women are using Twitter to support the IS, and the roles they play online and in real-time social networks, can be used to develop more effective counterterrorism strategies to deter the radicalization and recruitment of individuals online
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Thinking conjuncturally about ideology, housing and English planning
This paper explores the value of Stuart Hallâs approach to conjunctural analysis for examining the complex relations between ideology and planning. By âthinking conjuncturallyâ we explore planning as a site where multiple social, economic and political forces coalesce; ideology is one of these forces whose role and influence must be tracked alongside others. To illustrate this we draw on recent and ongoing planning reforms in England and their relationship with housing development. Highlighting the faltering role of a particular ideological formation in âsuturing together contradictory lines of argument and emotional investmentsâ (Hall, 2011, 713) around housing and planning, the paper draws attention to planning as a space where ideological struggle takes place within the frame of a broader, contingent cultural hegemony. This struggle may help to reaffirm that hegemony but it can also open space for alternative visions to be articulated, with potential to transform dominant logics of planning and reveal routes to practical and progressive action
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