Beyond post‐politics: Offsetting, depoliticisation, and contestation in a community struggle against executive housing,Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

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Beyond post‐politics: Offsetting, depoliticisation, and contestation in a community struggle against executive housing
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers ( IF 3.3 ) Pub Date : 2019-11-23 , DOI: 10.1111/tran.12354
Elia Apostolopoulou _{1,

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In this paper I seek to explore the role of biodiversity offsetting in the evolution of public debates over controversial urban development projects and the way it may influence the outcome of social‐environmental conflicts. By drawing on empirical data obtained through 25 interviews with key stakeholders involved in a conflict around executive housing in North East England, 48 interviews with several stakeholders involved in offsetting across England, and an extensive document analysis, I explore the depoliticising effects of offsetting as an indicative example of actually existing neoliberal conservation. I also pay attention to the way offsetting relates to the fast policy complex to trace the links between neoliberalisation and depoliticisation particularly in the era following the 2008 financial crash. Understanding social‐environmental conflicts through the lens of the post‐political hypothesis can shed light on the way both participatory planning and neoliberal conservation, by favouring technocratic management and consensual policy‐making, attempt to remove contestation and agonistic engagement from the public terrain. On the other hand, seeing conflicts only through the post‐political hypothesis has important limits, primarily because it implies a catholic hegemony of post‐politics that can be both disorienting and paralysing. I conclude by showing through five key propositions the necessity for contextualised readings of historically and geographically specific political practices and for analysing depoliticisation by means of a theory of hegemony.

中文翻译：

超越后政治时代：社区与行政住房的斗争中的抵消，去政治化和竞争

在本文中，我试图探讨生物多样性抵消在有争议的城市发展项目的公开辩论中的作用，以及它可能影响社会环境冲突的结果的方式。通过利用经验丰富的数据，这些数据是通过对与英格兰东北部行政住宅冲突相关的主要利益相关者进行25次访谈，对与英格兰各地抵消性活动涉及的几个利益相关者进行48次访谈以及广泛的文档分析而得到的，我探索了抵消性交易作为非政府组织的去政治化作用实际存在的新自由主义保护的指示性例子。我还关注抵消与快速政策体系相关的方式，以追踪新自由主义和非政治化之间的联系，尤其是在2008年金融危机之后的时代。通过后政治假说的视角来理解社会环境冲突，可以通过支持技术官僚主义的管理和协商一致的政策制定，从参与性计划和新自由主义保护的方式中阐明，以消除公共领域的竞争和竞争性参与。另一方面，仅通过后政治假设来观察冲突具有重要的局限性，这主要是因为这意味着后政治的天主教霸权既可能使人迷惑，也可能使人麻痹。最后，我通过五个主要命题来说明对历史和地理上特定的政治实践进行情境化解读以及通过霸权理论分析去政治化的必要性。

更新日期：2019-11-23

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