Contesting Airport Expansion: Depoliticisation, Technologies of Government and Post-Aviation Futures

Description

This book focuses on airport expansion and aviation as a wicked policy problem to illuminate wider theoretical debates and conceptualisations about policy analysis and social and political theory. It examines the authoritative role of expert commissions in seeking to settle ongoing controversies and discusses the concept of depoliticisation in debates about current and future policy analysis. The authors construct and employ an innovative form of poststructuralist policy analysis, which is used to delineate the rival rhetorical and discursive strategies articulated by the coalitions seeking to shape public policy.

Steven Griggs is Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Business in the School of Justice, Security and Sustainability at Staffordshire University. 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.