Contesting Aviation Expansion

Steven Griggs is Professor of Public Policy in the Business School at Staffordshire University where he is Co-director of the Centre for Business, Innovation and the Regions. David Howarth is Professor of Social and Political Theory in the Department of Government and Co-director of the Centre for Ideology and Discourse Analysis at the University of Essex.

• Introduction: Problematising the Dilemmas of UK Airport Expansion: Puzzles and Research Strategies1. Depoliticisation, Discourse and Policy Hegemony 2. Governing by Numbers: Fantasies of Forecasting, Predict and Provide, and the Technologies of Government3. The Anatomy of an Expert Commission: Howard Davies, Rhetorical Reframing and the Performance of Leadership 4. Repoliticising Aviation Policy: Law, Planning and Persistent Activism 5. Extreme Turbulence: Problematisations, Multiple Crises and New Demands 6. ‘What if…?’ A Manifesto for the Green Transformation of Aviation Conclusion: Staying Grounded