Dark Side of Collaborative Planning Process

Behzad Malekpourasl

Abstract

This article attempts to review and explicate beginning of the political concept, largely as articulated by exponents of the Rancière’s political philosophy, in terms of the collaborative/communicative planning theory. The paper can be read in a sequence of a larger argument about neo-liberalization of planning theory and it makes more urgent the existing critiques of collaborative planning. I develop how the ideal of inclusiveness, produces an important exclusion problem that must be considered. So at the very core of the article is an attempt to recompose of the rigidly historical view about people in the planning process, to break out from idealism of conventional planning theory to make space for the insights of radical thinking about real people who have no part in anything. The article argues therefore that the idea of inclusiveness in collaborative/communicative planning always goes unrealized.


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