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The Spatial Politics of Spatial Representation: Relationality as a Medium for Depoliticization?

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  • Kristian Olesen
  • Tim Richardson

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This paper explores the interplay between the spatial politics of new governance landscapes and innovations in the use of spatial representations in planning. The central premise is that planning experiments with new relational approaches become enmeshed in spatial politics. The case of strategic spatial planning in Denmark reveals how fuzzy spatial representations and relational spatial concepts are being used to depoliticize strategic spatial planning processes and to camouflage spatial politics. The paper concludes that, while relational geography might play an important role in building consensus, it plays an equal important role in supporting current neoliberal transformations of strategic spatial planning.

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  • Kristian Olesen & Tim Richardson, 2011. "The Spatial Politics of Spatial Representation: Relationality as a Medium for Depoliticization?," International Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(4), pages 355-375.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cipsxx:v:16:y:2011:i:4:p:355-375
    DOI: 10.1080/13563475.2011.615549
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    1. Oliveira, Eduardo & Hersperger, Anna M., 2018. "Governance arrangements, funding mechanisms and power configurations in current practices of strategic spatial plan implementation," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 76(C), pages 623-633.
    2. Kristian Olesen & Carsten J Hansen, 2020. "Introducing business regions in Denmark: The ‘businessification’ of strategic spatial planning?," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 38(2), pages 366-383, March.
    3. Sami Moisio & Juho Luukkonen, 2015. "European spatial planning as governmentality: an inquiry into rationalities, techniques, and manifestations," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 33(4), pages 828-845, August.
    4. David L. Brown & Mark Shucksmith, 2017. "Reconsidering Territorial Governance to Account for Enhanced Rural-Urban Interdependence in America," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 672(1), pages 282-301, July.
    5. Anssi Paasi & Kaj Zimmerbauer, 2016. "Penumbral borders and planning paradoxes: Relational thinking and the question of borders in spatial planning," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 48(1), pages 75-93, January.

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