Forum Radio: Legitimacy and impact of megaprojects

My guest in the Forum Radio podcast today is Petr Witz, a Postdoc researcher and Assistant Professor at the Department of Public and Social Policy at the Institute of Sociological Studies at Charles University. As a researcher, Witz was based in Copenhagen for thtree years or so and worked with the largest cross-border infrastructure project in Europe - the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link – a massive underwater tunnel set to link Denmark and Germany. Such projects by their very nature are disruptive, affecting some groups of people negatively; as a sociologist who was involved close-up, he helped to find paths to reconciliation among the stakeholders. The project has also attracted some of his CU students as there are many issues and aspects for potential study. Petr Witz and colleagues are also greatly interested in legitimacy behind such projects – how it is earned, maintained and can help and how it is needed.