Bjørn Sletto
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 112783 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bjørn Sletto |
| NOMBRES | Bjørn |
| APELLIDO | Sletto |
| FIRMA | SLETTO B |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8371-7917 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 341 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Participatory Video for Decolonizing Planning Practice
Video has long served as a research tool across disciplines. In planning, film has shaped urban imaginaries, whether as a form of urban marketing by city authorities or as a mode of resistance. Increasingly, film is used to foster community engagement, but systematic analyses of participatory video (PV) for decolonizing approaches to planning are scarce. This article reviews experiences using film as a PV practice in planning and across disciplin…
They Suppressed Our Rights With Concrete
By framing the displacement of people fleeing war, persecution and violence as a short-term problem, refugee camps have emerged to offer temporary accommodations and services to displaced refugees. In Bangladesh, refugee camps were built in Cox's Bazar and Bhasan Char in recent years to house Rohingya refugees escaping from state-sponsored persecution by Myanmar. Constructed in two very different geographic contexts-mainland and island-yet intend…
I built it with my own hands
Third space pedagogy and community-based park design in Austin, Texas
The complex, diverse, and embodied nature of Latin(o/a/x) placemaking calls for place-based pedagogy that foregrounds intimate learning outside the confines of the classroom. A ‘third space’ approach to landscape pedagogy seeks to facilitate co-production with residents in a variety of outdoor learning spaces, thus fostering landscape literacy by encouraging students to grapple with the multiple meanings of Latin(o/a/x) landscapes while challengi…
Settler urbanism, emotional geographies, and Indigenous planning in Ecuadorian Amazonia
Affects and emotions serve as tools of governance in settler urbanism, facilitating colonial dispossession and control of Indigenous land. Drawing on modernist logics, housing projects in indigenous territory seek to instill fixity and urban orders on mobile Indigenous populations through the management of fear and uncertainty. Here we examine the production of emotions associated with the development of the Pañacocha Millennium Community, a publ…
Dreams of Mud and Concrete
Memory-based storytelling may contribute to co-productive planning approaches based on endogenous epistemologies and ways of being. Specifically, ambivalent memory performances, emerging from the embodied and emplaced memory of the speaker, reveal contested community histories, serve as a source of critical learning, and foster diverse forms of claims-making. By drawing on the case of a stormwater development project in the informal settlement of…
History can't be written without us in the center
Drawing on the concept of 'cuerpo-territorio,' we conceptualize non-Western "other mappings" as situated and historical performances that center embodied experiences, such as the multiple and persistent traumas of coloniality, that are invisibilized in Cartesian cartographic processes. In doing so, these mappings unveil how Cartesian cartography does the traumatic work of coloniality while fostering alternative, embodied spatial imaginaries based…
Intersectionality, gender, and project-induced displacement in the informal city
Walking with Youth in Los Platanitos
This article examines the role of mobile spaces to foster trans-disciplinary learning in international planning studios. Drawing from Indigenous ontologies and critical pedagogy, we suggest that walking and learning together between students and partners is critical to situated understandings of power and co-production of knowledge. We reflect on two years of studio courses in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to illustrate three different modal…
Walking, knowing, and the limits of the map
Post-representational cartography views maps as inherently unstable and unfinished, always in the making and thus singularly open for refolding and re-presentation. This perspective on maps calls for greater attention to the performances, negotiations, and contestations that occur during the ongoing production of maps, particularly in cases where maps are developed during collective, collaborative, and participatory processes in Indigenous landsc…
“They Sold Us Illusions”
In the capital city of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, climate change and environmental concerns are used to justify massive redevelopment projects in informal settlements located along the rivers Ozama and Isabela. Residents in such river communities negotiate the uncertainty of state planning under a new socio-environmentalism that prioritizes the environment over social concerns, while continuing to pursue bottom-up neighborhood planning de…
Demystifying Academic Writing in the Doctoral Program
This article discusses a course at The University of Texas at Austinwhich sought to facilitate doctoral students’ development of scholarly articles while simultaneously fostering their sense of scholarly identity. The article was co-authored by the instructor and two cohorts of doctoral students based on immediate as well as retrospective learning outcome assessments. The social constructivist approach to writing pedagogy fostered students’ schol…
Densification, private sector-led development, and social polarization in the global south
Informal landscapes and the performative placing of insurgent planning
Non-representational theory illuminates the role of mundane, performative presentations in the production of emotional geographies, while drawing attention to the unexpected (the event, the encounter, the disturbance) which challenge hegemonic representations of landscapes. This focus on situated and performative entanglement of social and material relations has important implications for insurgent planning practice and theory. Such creative prod…
Graffiti takes its own space’
The politics of graffiti and street art are often described in binary terms: criminalization of graffiti enhances its oppositional potential; its legalization destroys its counter hegemonic essence. In order to add nuance to this binary understanding of street art and graffiti, we examine the complex responses of street artists and graffiti writers to Decreto 75 (‘Decree 75’), an ordinance deployed by the mayoral administration of Gustavo Petro b…
Sustainable urban water management and integrated development in informal settlements
The liminality of open space and rhythms of the everyday in Jallah Town, Monrovia, Liberia
Recent work in African urbanism conceptualises the African city as a metropolis in flux characterised by interconnected mobilities and heterogeneity, in contrast with the dichotomous construction of public versus private space common in development and planning discourse. Instead, open spaces are not purely private nor merely public but can be understood as liminal spaces, produced through the mobilities and rhythms that are constitutive of this …
Indigenous mobilities, territorialization, and dispossession in the Sierra de Perijá, Venezuela
Lombricultura comunitaria y economías alternativas con enfoque de género en asentamientos informales
Revista de ciencia sociales interesada en temas socioambientales, sustentabilidad, ecología, cambio climático, biodiversidad, soberanía alimentaria, energía, minería y petróleo a nivel local regional y global
Inclusions, erasures and emergences in an indigenous landscape
The post-representational critique in critical cartography has conceptualized maps as ontologically unstable, subject to re-makings through performative engagements between the map artifact, map makers, and map consumers. This insight has important implications for participatory cartographies, that is, the sorts of mapping projects which, through strategies of inclusion of indigenous spatialities erased from official maps, aim to produce counter-…
Inventing space in the cañada
Informal settlements in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, tend to be located in risky and marginal lands along the banks of cañadas, waterways that have been channelized and otherwise transformed by residents as they develop informal settlements on the margins of the formal city. These severely polluted waterways are represented as "decaying," "filthy" and "dangerous" in Dominican planning discourse and drive conceptualizations of informality as…
Unsettling Neoliberal Rationalities
Neoliberal urban environmental governance is premised in part on the development of collaborative arrangements between state and non-state actors through which residents in informal settlements are encouraged to participate in their own governance. The neoliberal rationality of participation is implemented through governmental techniques such as responsibilization, whereby residents are rendered responsible for provision of basic environmental se…
Cartographies of remembrance and becoming in the Sierra de Perijá, Venezuela
This article examines the role of memory performance in participatory mapping in indigenous communities, in particular in terms of driving radical action for territorial rights. By examining the links between memory performance, processes of identity formation and the social constructions of landscape, the article suggests that greater critical consideration should be given to participatory mapping as process, as opposed to participatory maps as …
Territorialidad, mapeo participativo y política sobre los recursos naturales
El mapeo participativo lo han usado comunidades indígenas y afrodescendientes en luchas de derecho a tierras y recursos. Sin embargo, nuevas presiones relacionadas con las políticas de cambio climático y prácticas extractivas han surgido en la reconceptualización del mapeo participativo. Este artículo presenta su historia en el contexto de las reformas territoriales y las leyes internacionales del siglo XX. Se discuten los avances del mapeo parti…
Insurgent Planning and Its Interlocutors
International service learning is shaped by complex and shifting relationships between different actors with different, sometimes conflicting interests. Especially in Latin America, practice, pedagogy, and politics are intimately entangled, which means that field-oriented pedagogy cannot be neatly separated from its professional and political context. This makes it particularly important to consider the role of students and educators in reinforci…
We Drew What We Imagined
Participatory mapping has emerged as a dominant paradigm in participatory approaches to international planning, conservation management, and community development in the Global South and is considered a technology with emancipatory potentials for subordinate or marginalized groups. However, the literature on community-based mapping has been criticized for its dualistic approach to power, culture, and the local and for reifying material and discur…
Indigenous people don't have boundaries
Participatory mapping has allowed indigenous groups to produce and to varying degrees distribute counter-representations of indigenous landscapes, including boundaries that delineate `their' lands from those of the state and other indigenous groups. Through counter-mapping, indigenous groups thus continue to produce boundaries that are, in many ways, products of historical struggles and tensions within indigenous communities, and which also attem…
The Knowledge that Counts
Special issue
Boundary Making and Regional Identities in a Globalized Environment
The recent work in critical geopolitics problematizes the notion of boundaries and interrogates the narratives, ideologies, and institutions that inform processes of boundary making, or 'reborderings'. From the perspective of critical geopolitics, boundary making for conservation purposes is understood as an act of power embedded within a discourse of environmental geopolitics. Through reborderings, environmental geopolitics thus reflects and inf…
Insurgent Planning and Its Interlocutors
International service learning is shaped by complex and shifting relationships between different actors with different, sometimes conflicting interests. Especially in Latin America, practice, pedagogy, and politics are intimately entangled, which means that field-oriented pedagogy cannot be neatly separated from its professional and political context. This makes it particularly important to consider the role of students and educators in reinforci…
Producing space(s), representing landscapes
In the mid-1990s Trinidadians witnessed a hotly contested resource conflict in the Nariva Swamp, a wetland located on the east coast of the island. This conflict resulted in a stricter regime of environmental protection and greater influence of conservation-oriented government agencies, and demonstrates the role of representations in influencing spatial practice. Drawing on the critical landscape literature, post-structural political ecology and …
What's Love Got To Do With It? Illuminations on Loving Attachment in Planning
10.1080/14649357.2012.731210 Original image by Libby Porter, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia In 2009, the People of Color Interest Group (POCIG) sponsored a round table at the annual Associ
Inclusions, erasures and emergences in an indigenous landscape
The post-representational critique in critical cartography has conceptualized maps as ontologically unstable, subject to re-makings through performative engagements between the map artifact, map makers, and map consumers. This insight has important implications for participatory cartographies, that is, the sorts of mapping projects which, through strategies of inclusion of indigenous spatialities erased from official maps, aim to produce counter-…
Walking, knowing, and the limits of the map
Post-representational cartography views maps as inherently unstable and unfinished, always in the making and thus singularly open for refolding and re-presentation. This perspective on maps calls for greater attention to the performances, negotiations, and contestations that occur during the ongoing production of maps, particularly in cases where maps are developed during collective, collaborative, and participatory processes in Indigenous landsc…
Cartographies of remembrance and becoming in the Sierra de Perijá, Venezuela
This article examines the role of memory performance in participatory mapping in indigenous communities, in particular in terms of driving radical action for territorial rights. By examining the links between memory performance, processes of identity formation and the social constructions of landscape, the article suggests that greater critical consideration should be given to participatory mapping as process, as opposed to participatory maps as …
A swamp and its subjects
History can't be written without us in the center
Drawing on the concept of 'cuerpo-territorio,' we conceptualize non-Western "other mappings" as situated and historical performances that center embodied experiences, such as the multiple and persistent traumas of coloniality, that are invisibilized in Cartesian cartographic processes. In doing so, these mappings unveil how Cartesian cartography does the traumatic work of coloniality while fostering alternative, embodied spatial imaginaries based…
The liminality of open space and rhythms of the everyday in Jallah Town, Monrovia, Liberia
Recent work in African urbanism conceptualises the African city as a metropolis in flux characterised by interconnected mobilities and heterogeneity, in contrast with the dichotomous construction of public versus private space common in development and planning discourse. Instead, open spaces are not purely private nor merely public but can be understood as liminal spaces, produced through the mobilities and rhythms that are constitutive of this …
Educating Reflective Practitioners
Service learning projects are characterized by complex processes of knowledge production, which are contingent on narratives that inform the identities of educators, students, and community members. By encouraging students to critically reflect on their positionality and the social processes that inform such coproduction of knowledge, educators can use service learning to educate reflective practitioners capable of working productively with multi…
Informal landscapes and the performative placing of insurgent planning
Non-representational theory illuminates the role of mundane, performative presentations in the production of emotional geographies, while drawing attention to the unexpected (the event, the encounter, the disturbance) which challenge hegemonic representations of landscapes. This focus on situated and performative entanglement of social and material relations has important implications for insurgent planning practice and theory. Such creative prod…
Unsettling Neoliberal Rationalities
Neoliberal urban environmental governance is premised in part on the development of collaborative arrangements between state and non-state actors through which residents in informal settlements are encouraged to participate in their own governance. The neoliberal rationality of participation is implemented through governmental techniques such as responsibilization, whereby residents are rendered responsible for provision of basic environmental se…
Territorialidad, mapeo participativo y política sobre los recursos naturales
El mapeo participativo lo han usado comunidades indígenas y afrodescendientes en luchas de derecho a tierras y recursos. Sin embargo, nuevas presiones relacionadas con las políticas de cambio climático y prácticas extractivas han surgido en la reconceptualización del mapeo participativo. Este artículo presenta su historia en el contexto de las reformas territoriales y las leyes internacionales del siglo XX. Se discuten los avances del mapeo parti…
Walking with Youth in Los Platanitos
This article examines the role of mobile spaces to foster trans-disciplinary learning in international planning studios. Drawing from Indigenous ontologies and critical pedagogy, we suggest that walking and learning together between students and partners is critical to situated understandings of power and co-production of knowledge. We reflect on two years of studio courses in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to illustrate three different modal…
Conservation planning, boundary-making and border terrains
Densification, private sector-led development, and social polarization in the global south
Graffiti takes its own space’
The politics of graffiti and street art are often described in binary terms: criminalization of graffiti enhances its oppositional potential; its legalization destroys its counter hegemonic essence. In order to add nuance to this binary understanding of street art and graffiti, we examine the complex responses of street artists and graffiti writers to Decreto 75 (‘Decree 75’), an ordinance deployed by the mayoral administration of Gustavo Petro b…
Sustainable urban water management and integrated development in informal settlements
Indigenous mobilities, territorialization, and dispossession in the Sierra de Perijá, Venezuela
They Suppressed Our Rights With Concrete
By framing the displacement of people fleeing war, persecution and violence as a short-term problem, refugee camps have emerged to offer temporary accommodations and services to displaced refugees. In Bangladesh, refugee camps were built in Cox's Bazar and Bhasan Char in recent years to house Rohingya refugees escaping from state-sponsored persecution by Myanmar. Constructed in two very different geographic contexts-mainland and island-yet intend…
Boundary Making and Regional Identities in a Globalized Environment
The recent work in critical geopolitics problematizes the notion of boundaries and interrogates the narratives, ideologies, and institutions that inform processes of boundary making, or 'reborderings'. From the perspective of critical geopolitics, boundary making for conservation purposes is understood as an act of power embedded within a discourse of environmental geopolitics. Through reborderings, environmental geopolitics thus reflects and inf…
Producing space(s), representing landscapes
In the mid-1990s Trinidadians witnessed a hotly contested resource conflict in the Nariva Swamp, a wetland located on the east coast of the island. This conflict resulted in a stricter regime of environmental protection and greater influence of conservation-oriented government agencies, and demonstrates the role of representations in influencing spatial practice. Drawing on the critical landscape literature, post-structural political ecology and …
Critical geographies of the Caribbean and Latin America
A swamp and its subjects
The Knowledge that Counts
Indigenous people don't have boundaries
Participatory mapping has allowed indigenous groups to produce and to varying degrees distribute counter-representations of indigenous landscapes, including boundaries that delineate `their' lands from those of the state and other indigenous groups. Through counter-mapping, indigenous groups thus continue to produce boundaries that are, in many ways, products of historical struggles and tensions within indigenous communities, and which also attem…
Special issue
We Drew What We Imagined
Participatory mapping has emerged as a dominant paradigm in participatory approaches to international planning, conservation management, and community development in the Global South and is considered a technology with emancipatory potentials for subordinate or marginalized groups. However, the literature on community-based mapping has been criticized for its dualistic approach to power, culture, and the local and for reifying material and discur…
Educating Reflective Practitioners
Service learning projects are characterized by complex processes of knowledge production, which are contingent on narratives that inform the identities of educators, students, and community members. By encouraging students to critically reflect on their positionality and the social processes that inform such coproduction of knowledge, educators can use service learning to educate reflective practitioners capable of working productively with multi…
The Mythical Forest, the Becoming-Desert
Landscape managers increasingly draw on indigenous practices of controlled burning to develop vegetation heterogeneity and reduce fuel loads, thereby avoiding extensive and destructive fires. However, anthropogenic fire is also commonly represented as a primary driver of environmental change, which in some places has led to an emphasis on heavy-handed fire suppression rather than fire management. These contradictions in global fire management are…
Conservation planning, boundary-making and border terrains
Insurgent Planning and Its Interlocutors
International service learning is shaped by complex and shifting relationships between different actors with different, sometimes conflicting interests. Especially in Latin America, practice, pedagogy, and politics are intimately entangled, which means that field-oriented pedagogy cannot be neatly separated from its professional and political context. This makes it particularly important to consider the role of students and educators in reinforci…
What's Love Got To Do With It? Illuminations on Loving Attachment in Planning
10.1080/14649357.2012.731210 Original image by Libby Porter, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia In 2009, the People of Color Interest Group (POCIG) sponsored a round table at the annual Associ
Cartographies of remembrance and becoming in the Sierra de Perijá, Venezuela
This article examines the role of memory performance in participatory mapping in indigenous communities, in particular in terms of driving radical action for territorial rights. By examining the links between memory performance, processes of identity formation and the social constructions of landscape, the article suggests that greater critical consideration should be given to participatory mapping as process, as opposed to participatory maps as …
Territorialidad, mapeo participativo y política sobre los recursos naturales
El mapeo participativo lo han usado comunidades indígenas y afrodescendientes en luchas de derecho a tierras y recursos. Sin embargo, nuevas presiones relacionadas con las políticas de cambio climático y prácticas extractivas han surgido en la reconceptualización del mapeo participativo. Este artículo presenta su historia en el contexto de las reformas territoriales y las leyes internacionales del siglo XX. Se discuten los avances del mapeo parti…
Lombricultura comunitaria y economías alternativas con enfoque de género en asentamientos informales
Revista de ciencia sociales interesada en temas socioambientales, sustentabilidad, ecología, cambio climático, biodiversidad, soberanía alimentaria, energía, minería y petróleo a nivel local regional y global
Inclusions, erasures and emergences in an indigenous landscape
The post-representational critique in critical cartography has conceptualized maps as ontologically unstable, subject to re-makings through performative engagements between the map artifact, map makers, and map consumers. This insight has important implications for participatory cartographies, that is, the sorts of mapping projects which, through strategies of inclusion of indigenous spatialities erased from official maps, aim to produce counter-…
Inventing space in the cañada
Informal settlements in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, tend to be located in risky and marginal lands along the banks of cañadas, waterways that have been channelized and otherwise transformed by residents as they develop informal settlements on the margins of the formal city. These severely polluted waterways are represented as "decaying," "filthy" and "dangerous" in Dominican planning discourse and drive conceptualizations of informality as…
Unsettling Neoliberal Rationalities
Neoliberal urban environmental governance is premised in part on the development of collaborative arrangements between state and non-state actors through which residents in informal settlements are encouraged to participate in their own governance. The neoliberal rationality of participation is implemented through governmental techniques such as responsibilization, whereby residents are rendered responsible for provision of basic environmental se…
Indigenous mobilities, territorialization, and dispossession in the Sierra de Perijá, Venezuela
The liminality of open space and rhythms of the everyday in Jallah Town, Monrovia, Liberia
Recent work in African urbanism conceptualises the African city as a metropolis in flux characterised by interconnected mobilities and heterogeneity, in contrast with the dichotomous construction of public versus private space common in development and planning discourse. Instead, open spaces are not purely private nor merely public but can be understood as liminal spaces, produced through the mobilities and rhythms that are constitutive of this …
Graffiti takes its own space’
The politics of graffiti and street art are often described in binary terms: criminalization of graffiti enhances its oppositional potential; its legalization destroys its counter hegemonic essence. In order to add nuance to this binary understanding of street art and graffiti, we examine the complex responses of street artists and graffiti writers to Decreto 75 (‘Decree 75’), an ordinance deployed by the mayoral administration of Gustavo Petro b…
Sustainable urban water management and integrated development in informal settlements
“They Sold Us Illusions”
In the capital city of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, climate change and environmental concerns are used to justify massive redevelopment projects in informal settlements located along the rivers Ozama and Isabela. Residents in such river communities negotiate the uncertainty of state planning under a new socio-environmentalism that prioritizes the environment over social concerns, while continuing to pursue bottom-up neighborhood planning de…
Demystifying Academic Writing in the Doctoral Program
This article discusses a course at The University of Texas at Austinwhich sought to facilitate doctoral students’ development of scholarly articles while simultaneously fostering their sense of scholarly identity. The article was co-authored by the instructor and two cohorts of doctoral students based on immediate as well as retrospective learning outcome assessments. The social constructivist approach to writing pedagogy fostered students’ schol…
Sociology (28 obras) · Political science (25 obras) · Politics (17 obras) · Law (15 obras) · Geography (13 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Ecology (10 obras) · Social science (10 obras) · Indigenous (9 obras) · Urban Planning and Governance (9 obras)