Airport Expansion and 'Post Aviation Futures'
Join Professors Steven Griggs and David Howarth, as they reflect on their ongoing research on the politics of aviation and their recent book
Airport Expansion and 'Post Aviation Futures'
22 May 2025, 12:00 – 14:00
The recent return of airport expansion to the political agenda (perceived by the government as a key answer to the problem of producing economic growth) offers a timely opportunity for the UK’s leading academics on the politics of aviation, Professors Steven Griggs and David Howarth, to reflect on both their call for a ‘post-aviation future’, which featured in their 2023 book Contesting Aviation Expansion, and their long engagement with the issue.
- This is an event aimed at academics, practitioners, activists and students interested in the politics of aviation and infrastructure more generally.
- It is organised by the Bartlett School of Planning’s Post-Growth Planning Research Cluster as part of a series of events on the politics and alternatives to growth as goal for planning and development.
- It is a chance for David and Steven to return to their recent work on airport expansion, set against the government’s recently stated 'Plan for Growth, with its commitment to a third runway at Heathrow and the wider expansion of the UK’s airport capacity.
Speaker information
David Howarth
University of Essex
David Howarth is Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Government at the University of Essex, and Co-Director of the Centre for Ideology and Discourse Analysis. He also holds a Visiting Professorship in the School of Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business at the University of Staffordshire. His publications include Discourse, Buckingham: Open University Press, 2000; Poststructuralism and After, London: Palgrave, 2013; Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theo
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Steven Griggs
University of Staffordshire
Steven Griggs is Professor of Public Policy in the Business School at the University of Staffordshire where he is Director of the Centre for Business, Innovation and the Regions. He has published widely on local governance and environmental politics and policy in journals such as Local Government Studies, Environment and Planning C, Journal of Urban Affairs, Political Geography, and Town Planning Review. He recently published with David Howarth Contesting Aviation Expansion.
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