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Deep Difference: Diversity, Planning and Ethics

Vanessa Watson

University of Cape Town, South Africa; watson{at}eng.uct.ac.za

The article suggests that planning's current sources of moral philosophy are no longer an entirely satisfactory guide on issues of ethical judgement in a context of deepening social difference and an increasingly hegemonic market rationality. A focus on process in planning and a relative neglect of product, together with the assumption that such processes can be guided by a universal set of deontological values shaped by the liberal tradition, are rendered particularly problematic in a world which is characterized by deepening social and economic differences and inequalities and by the aggressive promotion of neoliberal values by particular dominant nation-states. The notion of introducing values into deliberative processes is explored.

Key Words: conflict • ethics • judgement • social difference • values

Planning Theory, Vol. 5, No. 1, 31-50 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1473095206061020
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