CITIZEN PARTICIPATION, RELOCATION AND MALMBERGET : A study of Citizen Participation in Detailed Comprehensive Planning

• Main Author: Sheppard-Hawkins, Jordan
• Format: Bachelor Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap 2024
• Subjects: Malmberget; Relocation; Citizen Participation; Comprehensive Planning; Human Geography; Kulturgeografi; Gällivare
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-112897

The purpose of this study is to investigate how Gällivare municipality have planned for the participation of Malmberget’s citizens during the town’s relocation process. The study will be based on Gällivare municipality’s two most recent detailed comprehensive plans that involve Malmberget. The selected planning documents will be analysed via a qualitative text analysis in which all occurrences of citizen participation found will be presented in this essay. The citizen participation that has occurred during the period that the two detailed comprehensive plans cover will then be analysed using Sherry Arnstein’s Ladder of Citizen participation. The purpose of this analysis is to discuss the citizen participation used during the planning processes. The citizen participation was analysed using Arnstein’s ladder of citizen participation. The analysed citizen participation can be described as tokenism due to uncertain and inconsistent information presented by Gällivare municipality to the citizens.