Realizing planning's emancipatory promise: Learning from regime theory to strengthen communicative action

Planning Theory

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 115-139

  Irazábal, Clara ^a,b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b 400 Avery Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

Communicative action; Emancipatory knowledge; Empowering subjectivities; Network power; Regime theory; Spaces of solidarity

Indexed keywords

ADVOCACY; COMMUNICATION; DEMOCRACY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LEARNING; PLANNING METHOD; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 65249127500     PISSN: 14730952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1473095209102230     Document Type: Article

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