Inch, A. (2010) Culture change as identity regulation: the micro-politics of producing spatial planners in England. Planning Theory and Practice, 11 (3). 359 - 374. ISSN 1464-9357
Abstract
Attempts to reform planning systems often draw into question the attitudes and commitments of the planners charged with realising change. Since 2001 the English planning system has been subject to a complex series of reforms designed to modernise its workings. Central to this have been calls for a culture change, focusing on professional planners in the public sector. The discourse of culture change is rooted in the managerialist thinking that has been central to longterm processes of state restructuring. Du Gay describes this as a project designed to change the identities of public servants. This article therefore explores the messy ways in which reform has sought to re-regulate the identities of English planners, and the response from planners themselves as they have begun to negotiate these changes to their identities and practices. It is argued that attentiveness to the lived experience of change can help to inform a more critical and nuanced account of the normative promises of planning reform. ©2010 Taylor & Francis.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2010 Taylor & Francis. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Planning Theory and Practice. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Urban Studies & Planning (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 17 Mar 2014 11:25 |
Last Modified: | 17 Mar 2014 11:25 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2010.500133 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/14649357.2010.500133 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:78115 |