Inch, A. orcid.org/0000-0002-3349-687X (2023) The public good and the power of promises in planning. In: Gunder, M., Grange, K. and Winkler, T., (eds.) Handbook on Planning and Power. Research Handbooks in Planning series . Edward Elgar Publishing , pp. 196-210. ISBN 9781839109751
Abstract
History suggests good reasons to question the power of claims to the public good in planning. However, any attempt to tackle the conjunction of major crises societies face needs to grapple with the challenges of resurrecting a workable conception of it in the face of apparently diminished faith in collective agency. In this chapter, I reconsider the forms of power at work in articulations of the public good by exploring how they act as more or less persuasive and reliable promises about the future. The chapter argues that any attempt to renew the public good should consider the overlooked role of ‘promissory power’ in planning. Using an example of Donald Trump’s golf course developments in Scotland to exemplify the uses and abuses of promises to uphold the public good, I argue promissory power has been ceded to developers under neoliberal planning regimes and question how it can be reclaimed.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 Edward Elgar Publishing. This is an author-produced version of a chapter subsequently published in Handbook on Planning and Power. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. This chapter is made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
Keywords: | Public good; Power; Promises; Future-orientation; Neoliberalism |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Geography and Planning |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 20 Sep 2024 10:58 |
Last Modified: | 20 Sep 2024 10:58 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Series Name: | Research Handbooks in Planning series |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.4337/9781839109768.00021 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:217388 |
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