Who is (not) in the room? An epistemic justice perspective on low-carbon transport transitions

Anke Klaever and Ersilia Verlinghieri 2024. Who is (not) in the room? An epistemic justice perspective on low-carbon transport transitions. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908x.2024.2422842

TitleWho is (not) in the room? An epistemic justice perspective on low-carbon transport transitions
TypeJournal article
AuthorsAnke Klaever and Ersilia Verlinghieri
Abstract

Car-centric planning exacerbates the climate crisis, compromises public health, and erodes public space. Street-space reallocation programmes, which redistribute road space from cars to active travel, leisure and urban green, are an important strategy to respond to these challenges. In line with a wider shift towards collaborative planning, many of these programmes include public participation. However, participatory planning approaches face criticism for being exclusionary, favouring a loud or privileged minority. Following an epistemic justice perspective, this paper invites to consider the question: ‘who is (not) in the room?’ Based on in-depth qualitative analysis of the participatory processes linked to a pedestrianisation scheme in Berlin, we focus on the link between non-participation in invited participatory spaces and the emergence of claimed spaces of participation. We found all participants to have participated in one of them. The decision of how to participate is a complex interplay between the relevance of the scheme and the feeling of being heard. We show that it seems irrelevant whether this interplay applies to oneself or to one’s social network. Based on our findings, we argue that epistemically just participatory planning approaches to transitions need to go beyond invited spaces to include claimed spaces both spatially and temporally.

JournalJournal of Environmental Policy and Planning
ISSN1523-908X
1522-7200
Year2024
PublisherTaylor & Francis
Publisher's version
License
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
File Access Level
Open (open metadata and files)
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908x.2024.2422842
Web address (URL)https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2024.2422842
Publication dates
Published online07 Nov 2024

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