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This book analyses the strategies used by public authorities to
expand the UK aviation industry in relation to growing political
opposition and the negative impact of flying on local communities
and climate change. Its genealogical investigations show how
governmental practices and technologies designed to depoliticise
aviation and expand airports have generally failed to constitute an
effective political will to counter community resistance and
environmental protest. Criticising the dominant logics of UK
airport expansion, the authors promote a radical rethinking of our
attitudes to aviation in terms of sufficiency, degrowth and
alternative hedonism, laying the ground for a more sustainable
future.
The shift from government to governance has become a starting point
for many studies of contemporary policy-making and democracy.
Practices of Freedom takes a different approach, calling into
question this dominant narrative and taking the variety, hybridity
and dispersion of social and political practices as its focus of
analysis. Bringing together leading scholars in democratic theory
and critical policy studies, it draws upon new understandings of
radical democracy, practice and interpretative analysis to
emphasise the productive role of actors and political conflict in
the formation and reproduction of contemporary forms of democratic
governance. Integrating theoretical dialogues with detailed
empirical studies, this book examines spaces for democratisation,
institutional design, democratic criteria and learning, whilst
mobilising the frameworks of agonistic and aversive democracy,
informality and decentred legitimacy in cases from youth engagement
to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The shift from government to governance has become a starting point
for many studies of contemporary policy-making and democracy.
Practices of Freedom takes a different approach, calling into
question this dominant narrative and taking the variety, hybridity
and dispersion of social and political practices as its focus of
analysis. Bringing together leading scholars in democratic theory
and critical policy studies, it draws upon new understandings of
radical democracy, practice and interpretative analysis to
emphasise the productive role of actors and political conflict in
the formation and reproduction of contemporary forms of democratic
governance. Integrating theoretical dialogues with detailed
empirical studies, this book examines spaces for democratisation,
institutional design, democratic criteria and learning, whilst
mobilising the frameworks of agonistic and aversive democracy,
informality and decentred legitimacy in cases from youth engagement
to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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