ABSTRACT

Planners often use the phrase ‘hard-to-reach’ to describe youth, people of color, and people with low incomes, people from whom they need information but are unsuccessful in reaching. Consideration of cultural premises for communicating can help explain why some people are ‘under-heard’ rather than ‘hard-to-reach.’ This study uses cultural discourse analysis to study under-represented community group deliberations about transportation, convened through a model of public engagement for environmental justice. Data include transcripts of 29 group deliberations and fieldnotes. Analysis and interpretation of cultural discourses about public participation processes focuses on three radiants of meaning: (1) respect for users and sociability, (2) being involved and efficacy, and (3) having a voice and feeling worthwhile. The model of engagement in deliberative processes allows for a reconfiguration of notions of being, acting, relating, and feeling in which participants give themselves amplified voice and agency. It contributes to literature on public engagement and how culture is conceived.

摘要

计划人员通常使用“难以触及”一词来形容年轻人，有色人种，低收入者，需要信息但无法达到目标的人。考虑文化交流的前提可以帮助解释为什么有些人“被人听到”而不是“难以到达”。这项研究使用文化话语分析来研究代表性不足的社区群体对交通的审议，该审议是通过公众参与环境正义的模型召集的。数据包括29个小组讨论的文字记录和现场笔记。对有关公众参与过程的文化论述的分析和解释着重于意义的三个方面：（1）尊重用户和社交性；（2）参与和效力；（3）具有发言权和感觉值得。参与协商过程的模型允许对参与者存在，发挥，联系和感觉的概念进行重新配置，参与者在其中给予自己更大的发言权和代理权。它为有关公众参与和文化构想的文献做出了贡献。