Unlearning the Colonial Cultures of Planning

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-25304-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 304 g

Colonialization has never failed to provoke discussion and debate over its territorial, economic and political projects, and their ongoing consequences. This work argues that the state-based activity of planning was integral to these projects in conceptualizing, shaping and managing place in settler societies. Planning was used to appropriate and then produce territory for management by the state and in doing so, became central to the colonial invasion of settler states. Moreover, the book demonstrates how the colonial roots of planning endure in complex (post)colonial societies and how such roots, manifest in everyday planning practice, continue to shape land use contests between indigenous people and planning systems in contemporary (post)colonial states.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Porter, Libby

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Introduction: culture, colonialism and planning; Indigenous people and their challenge to planning; A colonial genealogy of planning; Systematizing space: 'natures', 'cultures' and protected areas; Managing the sacred; Modes of governance: the difference indigeneity makes to progressive planning; Unlearning privilege: towards the decolonization of planning; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Libby Porter, Lecturer in Spatial Planning, Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, UK