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Redistributing More Than the LGBTQ2S Acronym? Planning Beyond Recognition and Rainbows on Vancouver's Periphery
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Abstract
Just urban planning recognizes sociocultural differences and addresses inequality by implementing redistributive mechanisms that move beyond urban neoliberal practices of aestheticization and festivalization. Such planning practices are only beginning to address sexual and gender minority recognitio... view more
Just urban planning recognizes sociocultural differences and addresses inequality by implementing redistributive mechanisms that move beyond urban neoliberal practices of aestheticization and festivalization. Such planning practices are only beginning to address sexual and gender minority recognition in central urban areas while metronormative assumptions about their geographies absolve suburban municipalities of accountability for LGBTQ+ inclusions. In suburban municipalities, therefore, an LGBTQ+ politics of recognition rarely synchronizes with a politics of redistribution to foster sustained and transformative responses across the professional and managerial boundaries between planning and other local government functions. Consequently, a reparative civic "rainbowization" stands in for transformative urban planning, producing only partial and commodifiable inclusions in the landscape that become absolution for inaction on more evidence-based goals and measurable targets. Drawing on a database of public-facing communication records referencing LGBTQ2S themes for three adjacent peripheral municipalities in the Vancouver city-region (Burnaby, New Westminster, and Surrey), this article analyses the tension between contemporary planning’s civic actions of LGBTQ+ recognition and outcomes of redistribution. In suburban municipalities, a rainbow-washing politics of recognition sidelines transformative planning and policy resulting in little more than the distribution of the LGBTQ2S acronym across municipal documents.... view less
Keywords
inclusion; suburb; Canada; urban planning; redistribution; gender; sociocultural factors; policy of recognition; gender mainstreaming
Classification
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
Free Keywords
LGBTQ2S; Vancouver; rainbowization; social inclusion; transformative redistribution
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Page/Pages
p. 208-222
Journal
Urban Planning, 8 (2023) 2
Issue topic
Queer(ing) Urban Planning and Municipal Governance
ISSN
2183-7635
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed