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Contesting Aviation Expansion: Depoliticisation, Technologies of Government and Post- Aviation Futures
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Table of Contents
List of figures and tables
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction:
A growing global challenge: airports and aviation in context
Approaching the airports and aviation problem
The UK airports and aviation dilemma
The argument
Problematising the problematisations
The method of genealogy
The particular and the universal
Statements, signifiers and tropes
Outline and organisation of the book
1 Depoliticisation, discourse and policy hegemony
Debates in contemporary political theory and science
Building an agenda
Logics of politicisation and depoliticisation: mechanisms, strategies and tactics
Deferring to expertise
Decontesting the terms of discourse: framing and rhetorical redescription
The production of empty signifiers
The logic of difference
Fantasmatic images and narratives
Rationalities, technologies and techniques of government
Struggles for policy hegemony
Conclusion
2 Governing by numbers: fantasies of forecasting, 'predict and provide' and the technologies of government
The social logic of 'predict and provide'
The art of forecasting
Flaws and mounting opposition
Public inquiries
Bring on the experts: the Roskill Commission
Cost-benefit analysis ...
... and its discontents
Discursive framing
A national public consultation
Conclusion
3 The anatomy of an expert Commission: Howard Davies, rhetorical reframing and the performance of leadership
The work of the Airports Commission
First acts of power: framing the terms of reference
Performing authority: between quantification and judgement
The logic of 'predict and provide' and the technique of forecasting
Supporting 'a thriving aviation sector': the rhetoric of economic boosterism
The public face of the Commission: engaging stakeholders in an 'open and inclusive' process
Muting noise
Displacing climate change
Conclusion: The politics and ideology of the Airports Commission
4 Repoliticising aviation policy: law, planning and persistent activism
Repoliticising the Airports Commission
'Predict and provide' redux: the Conservative government's 'go for growth'
Ideological reframing and the new planning technology
Fast planning meets politics
The discursive tactics of depoliticisation
Legal challenges, the Climate Change Act and the Climate Change Committee
The paradoxes of politicisation and depoliticisation
Contesting aviation expansion and climate change in the courts
Conclusion
5 Extreme turbulence: problematisations, multiple crises and new demands
Problematisations and technologies of government
Contesting Aviation Expansion: Depoliticisation, Technologies of Government and Post- Aviation Futures
Copyright information
Table of Contents
List of figures and tables
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction:
A growing global challenge: airports and aviation in context
Approaching the airports and aviation problem
The UK airports and aviation dilemma
The argument
Problematising the problematisations
The method of genealogy
The particular and the universal
Statements, signifiers and tropes
Outline and organisation of the book
1 Depoliticisation, discourse and policy hegemony
Debates in contemporary political theory and science
Building an agenda
Logics of politicisation and depoliticisation: mechanisms, strategies and tactics
Deferring to expertise
Decontesting the terms of discourse: framing and rhetorical redescription
The production of empty signifiers
The logic of difference
Fantasmatic images and narratives
Rationalities, technologies and techniques of government
Struggles for policy hegemony
Conclusion
2 Governing by numbers: fantasies of forecasting, 'predict and provide' and the technologies of government
The social logic of 'predict and provide'
The art of forecasting
Flaws and mounting opposition
Public inquiries
Bring on the experts: the Roskill Commission
Cost-benefit analysis ...
... and its discontents
Discursive framing
A national public consultation
Conclusion
3 The anatomy of an expert Commission: Howard Davies, rhetorical reframing and the performance of leadership
The work of the Airports Commission
First acts of power: framing the terms of reference
Performing authority: between quantification and judgement
The logic of 'predict and provide' and the technique of forecasting
Supporting 'a thriving aviation sector': the rhetoric of economic boosterism
The public face of the Commission: engaging stakeholders in an 'open and inclusive' process
Muting noise
Displacing climate change
Conclusion: The politics and ideology of the Airports Commission
4 Repoliticising aviation policy: law, planning and persistent activism
Repoliticising the Airports Commission
'Predict and provide' redux: the Conservative government's 'go for growth'
Ideological reframing and the new planning technology
Fast planning meets politics
The discursive tactics of depoliticisation
Legal challenges, the Climate Change Act and the Climate Change Committee
The paradoxes of politicisation and depoliticisation
Contesting aviation expansion and climate change in the courts
Conclusion
5 Extreme turbulence: problematisations, multiple crises and new demands
Problematisations and technologies of government