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Overview

John Forester is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and conducts research primarily within the social sciences. Their work spans 17 publications focused broadly on social sciences, with significant contributions in related subfields including sociology and political science, global and planetary change, social psychology, public administration, and visual and performing arts.

Their research topics center on several key areas, including sustainability and climate change governance, conservation, biodiversity and resource management, land use and ecosystem services, leadership, courage and heroism studies, emotional intelligence and performance, Foucault, power and ethics, and issues related to homelessness and social matters.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with John Forester include Babak Manouchehrifar, Steven J. Cooke, Amanda L. Jeanson, Ian D. Bishop, and Brett A. Bryan.

Their work appears regularly in the following publication venues:

  • Planning Theory & Practice
  • Socio-Ecological Practice Research
  • Planning Theory
  • Journal of Urban Affairs
  • Negotiation Journal

Recent papers authored or co-authored by John Forester highlight themes consistent with their broader research interests. These include:

  • Beyond blame: leadership, collaboration and compassion in the time of COVID-19, 2020, Socio-Ecological Practice Research
  • Our curious silence about kindness in planning: Challenges of addressing vulnerability and suffering, 2020, Planning Theory

Other relevant recent studies in closely related research venues by collaborators include:

  • On the theory-practice gap in the environmental realm: perspectives from and for diverse environmental professionals, 2021, Socio-Ecological Practice Research
  • Repair and Healing in Planning, 2022, Planning Theory & Practice
  • Rethinking Religion and Secularism in Urban Planning, 2021, Planning Theory & Practice

Best Publications

  • Planning in the face of power

    John Forester

  • The argumentative turn in policy analysis and planning

    Frank Fischer;John Forester;Maarten A. Hajer;Robert Hoppe

  • The Deliberative Practitioner: Encouraging Participatory Planning Processes

    John Forester

  • Critical theory, public policy, and planning practice

    John Forester

  • Critical Theory and Planning Practice

    John Forester

  • Dealing with Differences: Dramas of Mediating Public Disputes

    John Forester

  • Bounded Rationality and the Politics of Muddling Through

    John Forester

  • Critical theory, public policy, and planning practice : toward a critical pragmatism

    John Forester

  • Planning In the Face of Conflict: Negotiation and Mediation Strategies in local Land Use Regulation

    John Forester

  • On the theory and practice of critical pragmatism: Deliberative practice and creative negotiations:

    John Forester

  • Making Participation Work When Interests Conflict: Moving from Facilitating Dialogue and Moderating Debate to Mediating Negotiations

    John Forester

  • Learning from Practice Stories: The Priority of Practical Judgment

    John Forester

  • Critical Theory and Public Life

    John Forester

  • Confronting Values in Policy Analysis: The Politics of Criteria

    Frank Fischer;John Forester

  • What Planners Do: Power, Politics, and Persuasion.

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  • Dealing with Deep Value Differences

    John Forester

  • Reflections on the future understanding of planning practice

    John Forester

  • Conflict, Improvisation, Governance: Street Level Practices for Urban Democracy

    David Laws;John Forester

  • Urban and Regional Planning in an Age of Austerity

    Pierre Clavel;John Forester;William W. Goldsmith

  • Learning to Improve Practice: Lessons from Practice Stories and Practitioners' Own Discourse Analyses (or Why Only the Loons Show Up)

    John Forester

  • Conflict, Improvisation, Governance

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  • Bridging Interests and Community: Advocacy Planning and the Challenges of Deliberative Democracy

    John Forester

  • On the theory-practice gap in the environmental realm: perspectives from and for diverse environmental professionals

    Steven J. Cooke;Amanda L. Jeanson;Ian Bishop;Brett A. Bryan

  • Participatory action research from the inside: community development practice in East St. Louis

    John Forester

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Fischer
Frank Fischer Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Maarten Hajer
Maarten Hajer Utrecht University
Emily Talen
Emily Talen University of Chicago
Bruce Jennings
Bruce Jennings Vanderbilt University

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