Jean Hillier

Jean Hillier
Born	Kent, England
Nationality	British and Australian
Scientific career
Fields	Planning Theory and Environmental Humanities
Institutions	Professor Emerita RMIT UNiversity, Melbourne

Jean Hillier is Professor Emerita in the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

Research interests[]

Research interests include poststructural planning theory and methodology for strategic practice in conditions of uncertainty, more-than-human planning theory and practice, and problematisation of cultural heritage practices in spatial planning, particularly in China.

Research projects[]

• ARC Large Grant. The Role of Procedural Justice in Determining the Effectiveness of Citizen Involvement in Planning.
• AHURI. Falling through the Net, A Risk Management Model for Home Ownership Support Schemes. (with Peter V., Walker R. & Berry M.)
• AHURI. The Impact of Urban Regeneration on Indigenous Households. (with Walker R.)
• EU FP6. Katarsis. (with Moulaert F.).
• EU FP7. Social Polis. (with Moulaert F.)
• ARC Discovery. Enabling social innovation for local climate adaptability (with Steele W., MacCallum D., Byrne J. and Houston D.)

Publications[]

Over 200 publications in her name:

Books[]

2002 * Habitus: A Sense of Place, edited with Emma Rooksby, Ashgate, Aldershot

2002 * Shadows of Power: an Allegory of Prudence, Routledge, London.

2005 * Consent and Consensus, edited with Denis Cryle, API Network, Perth.

2007 * Stretching Beyond the Horizon: a multiplanar theory of spatial planning and governance, Ashgate, Aldershot.

2008 * Critical Essays in Planning Theory, 3 Volumes, edited with Patsy Healey, Ashgate, Aldershot.

2009 * Social Innovation and Territorial Development, edited with Frank Moulaert, Serena Vicari and Diana MacCallum, Ashgate, Aldershot.

2009 * Planning in 10 Words – Or Less, with Gunder M., Ashgate, Farnham.

2010 * The Ashgate Research Companion to Planning Theory: Conceptual Challenges for Spatial Planning, edited with Patsy Healey, Ashgate, Farnham.

2012 * Complexity and the Planning of the Built Environment, edited with Gert de Roo, Joris Van Wezemael, Ashgate, Farnham.

2014 * Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari for Planners, InPlanning e-book, http://www.aesop-planning.eu/downloads/Other/en_GB/aesop-ya-booklet-series-a-vol-1-deluze-and-guattari-jean-hillier-in-conversation-with-gareth-abrahams

2015 * Connections: exploring contemporary planning theory and practice with Patsy Healey, edited with Jonathan Metzger, Ashgate, Farnham.

2017 * The Planning Theory Tradition: an international account, 规划理论传统：国际化解读, with Patsy Healey, Southeastern University Press, Nanjing, China 南京东南大学出版社有限公司 (In Mandarin).

2017 * Situated Practices of Strategic Planning: An international perspective, edited with Louis Albrechts and Alessandro Balducci, Routledge, Abingdon.

Journal articles[]

1984 * The Advance Factory Market. The Planner. October 1984, 70(10): 15.

1985 * Multinational Control In The Bristol Economy. Area. September, 17:123-7.

1985 * Multinational Control. Companies Producing in Britain Does Not Equal British Industry. Area. December, 17: 330-335.

1987 * Under the Counter: Wages and Conditions in Retailing. Planning Practice and Research. 2: 21-26.

1991 * The Debate Over Urban Consolidation in Australia. (with Yiftachel, O and Betham, M), Urban Policy and Research. 9(2): 78-81.

1991 * Community Power - A Postmodern Approach. (with Hedgcock, D and Wood, D). Urban Policy & Research. 9(4): 220-226

1993 * To Boldly Go Where Planners ... Environment and Planning D, Society and Space, 11: 89-113.

1995 * The Unwritten Law of Planning Theory: Common Sense. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 14(4): 292-296.

1996 * Communicative Micropolitics: A Story of Claims and Discourses.(with Healey, P.) International Planning Studies, 1(2): 165-184.

1996 * On the Memory of Water? Journal of Planning Education and Research, 15(3): 103.

1996 * The Gaze in the City: Video Surveillance in Perth”. Australian Geographical Studies, 34(1): 95-105.

1997 * Who speaks for the poor? (with van Looij T.) International Planning Studies, 2(1): 7-26.

1997 * Values, Images, Identities: Cultural Influences in Public Participation. Geography Research Forum, 17(1): 18-36.

1997 * See you in the City, Arena, 38-40.

1998 * Beyond Confused Noise: ideas towards communicative procedural justice. Journal of Planning Education & Research, 18: 14-24.

1998 * Paradise proclaimed? Towards A Theoretical Understanding of Representations of Nature in Land Use Planning Decision-Making, Ethics, Place and Environment, 1(1): 77-91

1999 * Habitat’s Habitus: Representation of Nature as Social Space in Land Use Planning Decision-making, Urban Policy & Research, 17(3): 199-204

1999 * What Values? Whose Values? Ethics, Place & Environment: 2(2): 179-199

2000 * Going Round the Back? Complex Networks, Informal Action in Local Planning Processes, Environment & Planning A, 34: 33-54.

2000 * Can’t See The Trees For The Wood, Planning Theory & Practice 1(1): 59-79

2001 * Gender and Habitus: an editorial introduction, Geography Research Forum, Special Issue, 21: 1-5.

2003 * Governance and Strategic Environmental Policy-making in Times of Challenge and Change: the Western Australian Regional Forest Agreement, Australian Geographical Studies, 41(3): 251-269.

2003 * ‘Agon’ising Over Consensus - Why Habermasian Ideals Cannot be Real, Planning Theory, 2(1): 37-59.

2003 * Puppets of Populism? International Planning Studies, 8(2): 157-166.

2004 * Planning Fantasies? An exploration of a potential Lacanian framework for understanding development assessment planning, (with Gunder M.) Planning Theory, 2(3); 225-248

2004 * Conforming to the Expectations of the Profession: A Lacanian Perspective on Planning Practice, Norms and Values, (with Gunder M) Planning Theory and Practice, 5(2): 217-235.

2004 * Trois Essais sur le Rôle de l'Innovation Sociale dans le Développement Territorial, (with Moulaert F. and Nussbaumer J.) Géographie, Économie, Société, 6(2): 129-152.

2005 * Not Over Your Dead Bodies! A Lacanian Interpretation of Planning Discourse and Practice, (with Gunder M) Environment & Planning A, 37(6): 1049-1066

2005 * Straddling the Post-Structuralist Abyss: Between Transcendence and Immanence? Planning Theory 4(3): 271-299

2007 * Planning as Urban Therapeutic, (with Gunder M) Environment & Planning A, 39(2); 467-486.

2007 * Problematising Responsibility in Planning Theory and Practice: on seeing the middle of the string? (with Gunder M.), Progress in Planning, 68(1): 57-96.

2008 * Viaggio inter-planario: il planning spaziale alla frontiera tra linee e piani, (trans. Lieto L.), Critica della Razionalità Urbanistica (CRU): 20-21: 7-24.

2008 * Plan(e) Speaking: a multiplanar theory of spatial planning, Planning Theory, 7(1): 24-50.

2008 * 'Empty, Swept and Garnished': the Public Finance Initiative case of Throckley Middle School (with Van Wezemael J.) Space and Polity, 12(2): 157 — 181

2008 * Do we know what a body can do? Emergent subjectivities in Another Place, Rhizomes, Issue 17(winter): http://www.rhizomes.net/issue17/hillier/index.html

2009 * Assemblages of Justice: the 'ghost ships' of Graythorp, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 33(3) 640-661.

2009 * Ping mian yan shuo: Kong jian gui hua de duo ping mian li lun (trans. Cao K.) Urban Planning International, 24(5): 37-44.

2010 * How Could We Study Climate-Related Social Innovation? Applying Deleuzean Philosophy to the Transition Towns, (with Smith Cato M.). Environmental Politics: 869-887.

2010 * Strategic navigation in an ocean of theoretical and practice complexity, 战略性引导的方法在复杂规划理论与实践中的运用, (trans. Cao K.), Urban Planning International 25(5): 44-59. In Mandarin.

2010 * Painting Green Dragons? Towards a Poststructural Theory and Methodology for Strategic Spatial Planning in the People’s Republic of China (with Cao K.) 绘制青龙：面向中国战略空间规划的后结构主义理论与方法论, Urban Planning International 25(5): 88-95. In Mandarin.

2011 * Encountering Gilles Deleuze in Another Place, European Planning Studies, 9(5): 861-885.

2011 * Strategic Navigation across Multiple Planes: towards a Deleuzean-inspired methodology for strategic spatial planning. Town Planning Review, 82(5): 503-527.

2011 * Introduction: Strategic spatial planning in uncertainty: theory and exploratory practice, (with Balducci A., Boelens L., Nyseth T. and Wilkinson C.), Town Planning Review, 82(5): 481-501

2011 * Strategic Planning as Strategic Navigation, Critica degli Ordinamenti Spaziali, 1(1): 25-42.

2011 * Enabling Chinese strategic spatial planners to paint green dragons, (with Cao K.), Planning Theory, 10(4): 366-378.

2012 * Liquid spaces of engagement: entering the waves with Antony Gormley and Olafur Eliasson, Deleuze Studies, 6(1): 132-148.

2012 * Processes of Innovation: reformation of the English strategic spatial planning system, (with Gunn S.) Planning Theory and Practice, 13(3): 359-381.

2012 * Introduction: Problematising Urban Social Cohesion: A Transdisciplinary Endeavour (with Miciukiewicz, K., Moulaert, F., Novy, A., Musterd, S.), Urban Studies, 49 (9), 1855-1872.

2013 * More than Meat: Rediscovering the cow beneath the face in urban heritage practice, Environment and Planning D, Society and Space, 31(5): 863-878.

2013 * Deleuzian Dragons: thinking Chinese strategic spatial planning with Gilles Deleuze, (with Cao K.), Deleuze Studies, 7(3): 390-405.

2013 * Troubling the Place of the Border: On Territory, Community, Space and Place, Australian Planner, 50(2): 103-108.

2013 * On Relationality and Uncertainty, disP, 49(3); 32-39.

2013 * Are we there yet? Urban Policy and Research, 31(1): 1-3

2013 * On Analysing Space from a Strategic Relational Institutionalist Perspective: The Cultural Park for Children in Cairo (with van den Broeck P., Abdelwahab M. & Miciukiewicz K.), International Planning Studies, 18(3-4): 321-341.

2013 * Planning theory in China and Chinese planning theory: Guest editorial introduction (with Cao K.) Planning Theory, 12(4) 331 –334. DOI: 10.1177/1473095213493983.

2014 * When Uncertainty is Interpreted as Risk: An analysis of tensions relating to spatial planning reform in England, (with Gunn Z.). Planning Practice and Research, 29(1): 56-74.

2015 * If Schrödinger’s Cat Miaows in the Suburbs, Will Anyone Hear? Planning Theory, 14: 425-443, DOI: 10.1177/1473095215576159

2016 * Is extermination to be the legacy of Mary Gilbert’s cat?. (with Byrne J.). Organization, 23(3): 387–406.

2017 * Cat-alysing attunement, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 19(3): 327-344.

2017 * No Place To Go? Management of Non-Human Animal Overflows in Australia, European Management Journal. 35: 712-721.

2017 * On Planning For Not Having A Plan?, Planning Theory and Practice, 18 (4): 668-675

2018 * Make kin, not cities! Multispecies entanglements and ‘becoming-world’ in planning theory, (with MacCallum, D., Steele, W., Houston, D. and Byrne J.), Planning Theory, 17(2): 190-212. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473095216688042

2020 * Towns within Towns: From incompossibility to inclusive disjunction in urban spatial planning, (with Metzger J.) Deleuze and Guattari Studies