Advancing an agenda for women in planning: an epilogue

Natalie Osborne; Deanna Grant-Smith; Caryl Bosman

doi:10.1080/07293682.2017.1297322

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Advancing an agenda for women in planning: an epilogue

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Advancing an agenda for women in planning: an epilogue

Natalie Osborne, Deanna Grant-Smith and Caryl Bosman

Australian Planner, Vol.54(1), pp.59-65

2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2017.1297322

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Abstract

Appreciative Inquiry

feminism

feminist planning

gender

Women in planning

This paper serves as an epilogue to the Women in Planning special issue of Australian Planner reflecting on the potential for women's activism and scholarship to promote social and spatial change around what have often been dismissed as irrelevant private or personal matters. This paper highlights the energy and willingness among women planners and those sympathetic to their goals towards seeking and creative positive and transformative change and engagement with issues of gender in planning. It specifically reports on the Women in Planning Symposium, held in Brisbane in 2016, and based on the principles of Appreciative Inquiry. Through this case we do not set out to 'prove' the impact of feminist approaches to planning or Appreciative Inquiry as applied in this workshop, rather, our goal here is to conclude this special issue by advancing an agenda for women in planning which is transformative, generative and pro-feminist and which has the potential to highlight and address gendered concerns in a productive way. We will reflect on both the findings that Appreciative Inquiry yielded, and on the process itself as a tool for participation and engagement, particularly in a feminist/emancipatory context.

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Title: Advancing an agenda for women in planning: an epilogue
Authors: Natalie Osborne (Corresponding Author) - Griffith University
Deanna Grant-Smith - Queensland University of Technology
Caryl Bosman - Griffith University
Publication details: Australian Planner, Vol.54(1), pp.59-65
Publisher: Routledge
Date published: 2017
DOI: 10.1080/07293682.2017.1297322
ISSN: 2150-6841; 0729-3682
Organisation Unit: School of Business and Creative Industries
Language: English
Record Identifier: 991016186702621
Output Type: Journal article

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