The Good, the Bad, and the Hands-on: Constructs of Public Participation, Anglers, and Lay Management of Water Environments

Sally Eden and Christopher Bear
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Sally Eden: Department of Geography, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull HU6 7RX, England
Christopher Bear: Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Llandinam Building, Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth SY23 3DB, Wales

Environment and Planning A, 2012, vol. 44, issue 5, 1200-1218

Abstract: We use a qualitative study of recreational anglers in northern England to explore constructions of ‘the public’ in environmental management. We examine good and bad constructs of ‘the public’ and show how they emphasise knowledge over practice. We argue for a more differentiated view of the public through ‘environmental engagement’ which will appreciate more fully ways in which both ‘specialised publics’ and ‘performative publics’ are imagined and enacted. We demonstrate how these constructs play out through attending to the discursive and material ‘hands-on’ practices of anglers in environmental management and show how these link different geographies of public participation through both discursive and material spaces.

Keywords: public participation; anglers; environmental management; specialised publics; practices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1068/a4495

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