'Going through the dance steps': Instrumentality, frustration and performativity in processes of formal public participation in decision-making on shale development in the United Kingdom
'Going through the dance steps': Instrumentality, frustration and performativity in processes of formal public participation in decision-making on shale development in the United Kingdom
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“走过舞步”：英国页岩开发决策过程中公众正式参与过程中的工具性、挫败感和表演性
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10.1016/j.erss.2022.102796
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发表时间：
2022
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6.7
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Williams L
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Williams L
我们采用混合方法分析了英国公众正式参与页岩开发决策的四种形式--规划、环境许可、公众咨询和对话研讨会。我们重点分析在这类过程中可以有效提出的问题种类和公众影响的范围。这一重点的概念灵感来自于科学和技术研究中关于公众参与和能源基础设施规划争议的文献，我们的发现建立在关于公众参与英国页岩开发决策的现有工作的基础上。我们还在英国兰开夏郡的费尔德进行当地社区采访，以了解参与这些过程的人是如何看待这些过程的。我们发现，这些正式的参与机会通常严格限制了可供讨论的问题的类型，缩小了公众影响的范围。其中一些形式的参与(公开协商和对话讲习班)具有工具性，是帮助实现促进国内工业的政策目标的工具。其他(规划和环境许可)则被设计为对公众对该政策目标的质疑漠不关心。因此，或许并不令人意外的是，我们当地社区的许多受访者将这些过程视为英国政府页岩气政策合法化的表演性练习。
We employ a mixed-method approach to analyse four forms of formal public participation in decision-making on shale development in the UK – planning, environmental permitting, public consultation and dialogue workshops. We focus analytically on the kinds of issues that can be raised effectively in such processes and the scope for public influence. This focus is conceptually inspired by literatures on public participation from Science and Technology Studies and on energy infrastructure planning disputes, with our findings building on existing work on public participation in decision-making on UK shale development. We also conduct local community interviews in the Fylde, Lancashire, UK, in order to understand how these processes are viewed by those who have participated in them. We find that these formal participatory opportunities generally tightly restrict the types of issues that are open for discussion, narrowing the scope for public influence. Some of these forms of participation (public consultations and dialogue workshops) take on an instrumental character, serving as a tool to help achieve the policy aim of facilitating a domestic industry. Others (planning and environmental permitting) are designed to be insensitive to public questioning of that policy aim. Perhaps unsurprisingly then, many of our local community interviewees saw these processes as performative exercises in the legitimation of UK government shale gas policy.