Citizen dialogue for whom? Competing rationalities in urban planning, the case of Gothenburg, Sweden

Linda Soneryd and Elisabeth Lindh

Urban Research & Practice, 2019, vol. 12, issue 3, 230-246

Abstract: This paper analyses citizen dialogue in urban planning from a governmentality perspective. We focus on (1) how motives and goals connected to ‘citizen dialogue’ and the activities and practices initiated to accomplish these can be understood in light of competing rationalities and (2) how public officials and other actors involved in organising citizen dialogues understand and manage the tensions between competing rationalities. The analysis draws on a case study of urban development in the city of Gothenburg, Sweden. We suggest a critical approach to the use of citizen dialogue as a technology of government, an approach enabling an analysis of various functions and implications of citizen dialogues.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/17535069.2018.1436721

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