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Journal Article
Negotiating polyvocal strategies
2020
Overview
The Practice of Everyday Life (de Certeau M (1984) The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press) has become a canonical text in urban studies, with de Certeau’s idea of tactics having been widely deployed to understand and theorise the everyday. Tactics of resistance were contrasted with the strategies of the powerful, but the ways in which these strategies are operationalised were left ambiguous by de Certeau and have remained undertheorised since. We address this lacuna through an examination of the planning profession in South Africa as a lieu propre – a strategic territory with considerable power to shape urban environments. Based on a large interview data set examining practitioner attitudes toward the state of the profession in South Africa, this paper argues that the strategies of the powerful are themselves subject to negotiation. We trace connections with de Certeau’s earlier work to critique the idea that strategies are univocal. We do this by examining how the interests of different powerful actors can come into conflict, using the planning profession as an exemplar of how opposing strategies must be mediated in order to secure changes in society.
《日常生活操行》(de Certeau M (1984) The Practice of Everyday Life.Berkeley, CA:University of California Press)已经成为城市研究的经典文本，德·赛都的战术思想已经被广泛应用于理解和理论化日常生活。反抗的策略与强势群体的策略形成对比，但德·赛都并未清晰阐述这些策略的运作方式，此后，这些策略一直没有得到充分的理论化。我们通过考察南非的规划行业来填补这一空白，我们将南非作为一个很好的例子，这是一个策略性区域，拥有塑造城市环境的巨大权力。基于一个大型访谈数据集（该数据集考察了从业者对南非行业状况的态度），本文认为强势群体的策略本身是可以谈判的。我们追踪与德·赛都早期工作的联系，以批判“策略是单一的”这一观点。我们这样做是通过研究不同的强势群体行为者的利益如何发生冲突，我们以规划行业为例，说明为何必须调解对立的策略，以确保社会变革。
