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Id : 2667

Author :
Williams L.J.; Martin A.; Stirling A.

Title


‘Going through the dance steps’: Instrumentality, frustration and performativity in processes of formal public participation in decision-making on shale development in the United Kingdom

Reference :


Williams L.J.; Martin A.; Stirling A. ‘Going through the dance steps’: Instrumentality, frustration and performativity in processes of formal public participation in decision-making on shale development in the United Kingdom,Energy Research and Social Science 92

Link to article https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85137101151&doi=10.1016%2fj.erss.2022.102796&partnerID=40&md5=3a945afcebccebb269fd4878aa534b17
Abstract We employ a mixed-method approach to analyse four forms of formal public participation in decision-making on shale development in the UK – planning, environmental permitting, public consultation and dialogue workshops. We focus analytically on the kinds of issues that can be raised effectively in such processes and the scope for public influence. This focus is conceptually inspired by literatures on public participation from Science and Technology Studies and on energy infrastructure planning disputes, with our findings building on existing work on public participation in decision-making on UK shale development. We also conduct local community interviews in the Fylde, Lancashire, UK, in order to understand how these processes are viewed by those who have participated in them. We find that these formal participatory opportunities generally tightly restrict the types of issues that are open for discussion, narrowing the scope for public influence. Some of these forms of participation (public consultations and dialogue workshops) take on an instrumental character, serving as a tool to help achieve the policy aim of facilitating a domestic industry. Others (planning and environmental permitting) are designed to be insensitive to public questioning of that policy aim. Perhaps unsurprisingly then, many of our local community interviewees saw these processes as performative exercises in the legitimation of UK government shale gas policy. © 2022 The Authors



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Health and Wellbeing

0.0259
Urban and Territorial Renovation 0.0340
Peoples Engagement and Participation 0.9751
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