Situating Communicative Planning Theory: Context, Power, and Knowledge

Communicative planning theory and community initiatives

Situating Knowledge and Power in the Therapeutic Alliance

The narrative process of re-authoring identities requires moving beyond simply telling and retelling stories to an active deconstruction of oppressive and unhelpful discourses. Unpacking unhelpful stories and creating alternative preferred stories involves recognizing the relationship between knowledge and power, as knowledge and power are joined through discourse (Foucault, 1980a). The postmod...

Communicative Power in Habermas’s Theory of Democracy

This article critically examines Jürgen Habermas’s theory of democracy as developed in Between Facts and Norms. In particular, it focuses on the concept of communicative power and argues that there is a crucial ambiguity in Habermas’s use of this concept. Since communicative power is the key normative resource that is supposed to counter the norm-free steering media of money and administrative ...

Communicative Principles And Utterance Planning

The paper discusses utterance planning in information-seeking dialogues and advocates a view of gradual speci cation of the communicative goal. In Constructive Dialogue Management, the set of beliefs that is intended to be communicated to the user is re ned with regard to communicative principles so that the utterance is relevant and appropriate in the context. Communicative principles describe...

Power, Process and Context in Theory Based Evaluation of Policy Implementation: A Response to Recent Commentaries