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Contesting aviation expansion : depoliticisation, technologies of government and post-aviation futures / Steven Griggs and David Howarth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Griggs, Steven, 1962- author.
- Series:
- Policy Press scholarship online.
- Policy Press scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aircraft industry--Environmental aspects--Great Britain.
- Aircraft industry.
- Airports--Environmental aspects--Great Britain.
- Airports.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 249 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- This book analyses the strategies used by public authorities to expand the UK aviation industry in relation to growing political opposition and the negative impacts on local communities and climate change. The authors promote a radical rethinking of our attitudes to flying, laying the ground for a more sustainable future.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Contesting Aviation Expansion: Depoliticisation, Technologies of Government and Post- Aviation Futures
- Copyright information
- Table of Contents
- List of figures and tables
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction:
- A growing global challenge: airports and aviation in context
- Approaching the airports and aviation problem
- The UK airports and aviation dilemma
- The argument
- Problematising the problematisations
- The method of genealogy
- The particular and the universal
- Statements, signifiers and tropes
- Outline and organisation of the book
- 1 Depoliticisation, discourse and policy hegemony
- Debates in contemporary political theory and science
- Building an agenda
- Logics of politicisation and depoliticisation: mechanisms, strategies and tactics
- Deferring to expertise
- Decontesting the terms of discourse: framing and rhetorical redescription
- The production of empty signifiers
- The logic of difference
- Fantasmatic images and narratives
- Rationalities, technologies and techniques of government
- Struggles for policy hegemony
- Conclusion
- 2 Governing by numbers: fantasies of forecasting, 'predict and provide' and the technologies of government
- The social logic of 'predict and provide'
- The art of forecasting
- Flaws and mounting opposition
- Public inquiries
- Bring on the experts: the Roskill Commission
- Cost-benefit analysis ...
- ... and its discontents
- Discursive framing
- A national public consultation
- 3 The anatomy of an expert Commission: Howard Davies, rhetorical reframing and the performance of leadership
- The work of the Airports Commission
- First acts of power: framing the terms of reference
- Performing authority: between quantification and judgement
- The logic of 'predict and provide' and the technique of forecasting.
- Supporting 'a thriving aviation sector': the rhetoric of economic boosterism
- The public face of the Commission: engaging stakeholders in an 'open and inclusive' process
- Muting noise
- Displacing climate change
- Conclusion: The politics and ideology of the Airports Commission
- 4 Repoliticising aviation policy: law, planning and persistent activism
- Repoliticising the Airports Commission
- 'Predict and provide' redux: the Conservative government's 'go for growth'
- Ideological reframing and the new planning technology
- Fast planning meets politics
- The discursive tactics of depoliticisation
- Legal challenges, the Climate Change Act and the Climate Change Committee
- The paradoxes of politicisation and depoliticisation
- Contesting aviation expansion and climate change in the courts
- 5 Extreme turbulence: problematisations, multiple crises and new demands
- Problematisations and technologies of government
- The return of the courts: rival interpretations and conflicting disagreements
- The post-Brexit interregnum
- The COVID-19 crisis
- Climate uncertainties and COP26
- Political and ideological turbulence
- 6 'What if...?' A manifesto for the green transformation of aviation
- 'Business as usual': reiterating the fantasmatic narrative of sustainable aviation
- Why 'business as usual' is no longer an option
- Technological fixes will not come quickly enough
- Offsetting will continue to fuel expansion and perpetuate climate injustice
- Flying is an environmentally unjust activity
- The economic numbers do not stack up
- There is no capacity overload, and airport expansion is simply a strategy to beat off the competition
- The logic of attenuation: demand management
- Why demand management will not go far enough and not quickly enough.
- Post-growth aviation in the UK: a manifesto for a just green transformation
- Suppressing demand and ending expansionist 'go for growth' aviation policies
- Divestment
- Ending short-haul flights and promoting alternatives
- A just transition
- Envisioning an alternative hedonism
- Delivering the green transformation in aviation
- Conclusion: Staying grounded
- The grip of numbers and the logic of quantification
- Politicisation, depoliticisation and the technologies of government
- The politics of law and judicial review
- Campaigning, dilemmas and hegemony
- The British State, party politics and political will
- Critique, normative evaluation and demands
- Our demands for the green transformation of UK aviation
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jan 2024).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781447344315
- 1447344316
- 9781447344308
- 1447344308
- 9781447344292
- 1447344294
- OCLC:
- 1381093029
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