Points of persuasion

Truth spots in future city development

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4475375
AutoresTim Bunnell (0000-0003-4811-3891, National University of Singapore, Singapore), Maitrii Aung-Thwin (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Jessica N Clendenning (0000-0001-5972-3308, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), D P S Goh (0000-0001-7298-4182, National University of Singapore), Daniel Ps Goh (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Nick R Smith (0000-0001-6072-4279, Columbia University)
Ano2022
Volume40
Fascículo6
Páginas1082-1099
Data de publicação2022-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/02637758221133832
OpenAlexW4307380904
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências citadas39

Geographers and historians have contributed to a well-established literature on how places become repositories of inherited meanings and contested memories. Much less attention has been afforded to space and place as future-making resources. In this article, we consider how extant places feature in the imagination, planning and development of ex novo cities. Focusing on three new administrative capitals in Southeast Asia - Putrajaya (in Malaysia), Naypyidaw (in Myanmar) and Nusantara (in Indonesia) - we show how places have been mobilized as points of persuasion, or what sociologist Thomas Gieryn has termed "truth spots". Drawing and building upon Gieryn's work, we identify three heuristic types of truth spots: aspirational truth spots that demonstrate progressive developmental possibilities for emulation; antithetical truth spots signaling past failures to avoid in planning and developing the future city; and anticipatory truth spots that articulate future expectations, justifying forms of (in)action in the present. While existing work on truth spots emphasizes powers of persuasion associated with physical, in-person experiences of place, our emphasis and contribution centres on the narrative mobilization of place references

Action (physics · Aesthetics · Art · Extant taxon · Literature · Narrative · Persuasion · Political science · Sociology · Psychology · Social Psychology · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Urban Planning and Governance