Clifford, Ben; (2024) Everyday island bureaucracies: spatial planning in the Channel Islands and Isle of Man. Presented at: American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA.

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Taking a decentred approach to the state, which emphasizes the importance of the mundane and everyday practices of state officials (Bevir, 2012: Jones, 2012) in the realities of the enactment of bureaucracy (Painter, 2006; Coddington, 2011), I draw on interviews with five public sector planners and one private sector planning consultant to explore their work in relation to producing spatial plans for the islands of Alderney, Guernsey and Jersey (the Channel Islands) and the Isle of Man (all largely self-governing crown dependencies of the UK). Considering the use of outside consultants versus local officials to develop planning policy, the perceived importance of both independence but also local knowledges, the importance placed in practice on inter-personal connections and the readily apparent policy mobilities (McCann, 2011) in order to undertake the work of planning for these small island territories, I conclude that specific geographies do matters for the way that bureaucracy operates. This in turn emphasizes the importance of situated geographies in our understandings of bureaucracy and the state, and the embodied and everyday nature of bureaucratic practices.

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