CfP: “Discursive struggles in transport and city planning” CL1 Workshop
Call for papers for a workshop of Cluster 1: Transport Infrastructure Impacts and Evaluation to be held at UCL, London, 2-4 July, 2025
Practices of transport planning and city planning are subjective in nature, reflecting values and beliefs on what is good and desirable (Hickman, 2025). Narratives are produced in governmental publications, strategies and the wider promotion of projects. Wider positions may give contested viewpoints, from a variety of actors and organisations and the public (Gössling et al., 2024). Discursive struggles, involving issues of power, problematisation, normalisation and discontinuity, lead to dominant discursive formations. Particular modes and uses of the street and space across the city are given preference in transport planning and urban development follows specific forms. There can be overriding meta narratives of neoliberalism, globalisation, growth, financialisation and populism, which affect the transport systems that can be and are produced. The resulting impacts are evident in the cities, regions, streets and travel behaviours that are produced, including the many significant adverse environmental and social impacts of dominant travel behaviours.
We invite papers discussing the following specific topics of interest:
• Discourse analysis in transport planning and city planning, project implementation and urban development, including discursive formations, practices and meanings, helping to understand differing positions and views between actors, groups and organisations, over space and time.
• Text-based or social practice-based discourse analysis; critical discourse analysis (CDA), Foucauldian discourse analysis, sociology of knowledge approaches to discourse (SKAD); and wider discursive approaches in transport and city planning.
• Meta narratives, such as neoliberalism, globalisation, growth, financialisation, populism; and relations to transport systems, strategies, projects, and urban planning.
• Discursive concepts, such as power, apparatus, truth, normalisation, culture, knowledge, ethics, exclusion; and relations to transport systems, strategies, projects, and urban planning.
• Hegemonic positions such as those on market mechanisms and competition in transport; motorisation; sustainable development; sustainable urban mobility; transit orientated development and social equity; and wider practices in transport planning.
• Wider case studies on the application of transport and city planning in relation to discourse and subjectivity; participatory and deliberative approaches to transport planning and project implementation.
The deadline for abstract submission is 30 April, 2025. Abstracts (max. 250 words) should be submitted electronically to the workshop convenor: Prof. Robin Hickman. Applications will be notified of acceptance of abstracts by 7 May, 2025.
Workshop organisers and scientific committee:
Prof. Robin Hickman, University College London
Dr. Jonas de Vos, University College London
Prof. Pengjun Zhao, Peking University
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