PLANNING, PUBLISHING AND THE PLANET: ACADEMIC PLANNING PUBLISHING IN TIMES OF PLANETARY CRISES

Organizers

David Kaufmann, ETH Zürich

Contributors

Angelique Chettiparamb, University of Reading
Katie McClymont, University of the West of England Bristol
Dominic Stead, Aalto University
Tuna Tasan-Kok, University of Amsterdam

This roundtable will address the role of academic planning publishing in today's world of multiple and protracted crises. It will include perspectives from editors of leading planning journals such as Planning Theory, European Planning Studies, Planning Theory & Practice, European Journal of Spatial Development, and disP - The Planning Review.

By engaging with the Congress theme, this roundtable will discuss the role of academic planning journals in today's age of planetary crises, what these journals can and should do to approach these world of multiple interlinked crises (such as climate change, biodiversity loss, related social exclusions and socio-spatial inequalities, and ongoing wars and displacements) and whether and how they can contribute to transformative action. We will discuss whether these global crises are well represented, reflected and analysed through the lenses of planning in planning journals and what could be future approaches to make our planning journals more relevant for transformation action. We are sure that planning research has much to say about how these crises are playing out, affecting different regions of the world and different populations in different ways. We will also ask whether we have enough diverse perspectives represented in planning outlets; and how we can engage with diverse disciplines, all of which are relevant to analysing these crises and proposing transformative action, despite being already a highly interdisciplinary field.

We will also discuss important issues about the future of academic planning journals: What are new publishing formats, article types, and processes to be more innovative, inclusive and equitable? How can early career researchers and voices from practice and community organizations be better integrated? How can we better incorporate the perspectives of planning scholars from different regions of the world, and what role can AESOP and other international planning associations play in facilitating academic planning publishing? 

All in all, we will ask substantive and procedural questions for how to produce and disseminate planning knowledge relevant for better understanding these planetary crises as well as formulating transformation strategies, tools and pathways for approaching these crises. After some initial reflections from various editors of planning journals, we will open the roundtable for comments and questions from the audience. Please come and ask questions that interest you!

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