Contesting Aviation Expansion Depoliticisation, Technologies of Government and Post-Aviation Futures
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Biographical note
Steven Griggs is Professor of Public Policy in the Business School at Staffordshire University where he is Co-director of the Centre for Business, Innovation and the Regions.
David Howarth is Professor of Social and Political Theory in the Department of Government and Co-director of the Centre for Ideology and Discourse Analysis at the University of Essex.
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.
Introduction: Problematising the Dilemmas of UK Airport Expansion: Puzzles and Research Strategies
1. Depoliticisation, Discourse and Policy Hegemony
2. Governing by Numbers: Fantasies of Forecasting, Predict and Provide, and the Technologies of Government
3. The Anatomy of an Expert Commission: Howard Davies, Rhetorical Reframing and the Performance of Leadership
4. Repoliticising Aviation Policy: Law, Planning and Persistent Activism
5. Extreme Turbulence: Problematisations, Multiple Crises and New Demands
6. ‘What if…?’ A Manifesto for the Green Transformation of Aviation
Conclusion: Staying Grounded
- The first analytical and in-depth characterisation of the emergence, character, functioning and practices of the Airports Commission, coupled with a critical evaluation of its recommendations and uptake by the UK government and campaigners alike;
- Offers an original approach by bridging the theme of politics of decision-making processes on major infrastructure and the case of airports;
- A topical but salient issue that will continue to be relevant for many years.
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Biographical note
Steven Griggs is Professor of Public Policy in the Business School at Staffordshire University where he is Co-director of the Centre for Business, Innovation and the Regions.
David Howarth is Professor of Social and Political Theory in the Department of Government and Co-director of the Centre for Ideology and Discourse Analysis at the University of Essex.