Beyond a liberal reading of insurgent in transformative planning practices

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ID12710230
AuthorsEfadul Huq (0000-0001-5235-4896, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume21
Issue2
Pages219-223
Publication date2022-03-29
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePlanning Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1473-0952 • E-ISSN: 1741-3052
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/14730952221089791
OpenAlexW4220677742
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited9

As I begin this response, I am drawn to a recently published article by Vasudevan and Novoa (2021) where the authors name as "pluriversal planning scholarship" a constellation of creative methodologies and theoretical insights rooted in "southern" or "south/eastern" realities.Pluriversal planning scholarship centers the needs and voices of subordinate communities, challenges the hegemony of Western thought, embraces epistemic multiplicity in planning, and advances engaged research that co-produces agitations and alternatives.My motivations for meditating on insurgent planning (IP) practices resonate with those commitments and IP practices occupy that pluriverse of planning practices as well.We are, or perhaps already always have been, living through a time when planning as the "organization of hope" is gasping for breath under societal and ecological collapse (Baum, 1997).The global pandemic, itself symptomatic of the frictional results between planetary urbanization and "wild" zones, has morphed into a vaccine apartheid generating new perils.The racialized police violence in the U.S., whose spatial politics is intricately linked to planning, continues to devalue and suffocate black lives.Dominant planning is also co-constitutive of the hardening of colonial borders coupled with ethno-nationalist fantasies that have intensified humanitarian crises.Humanitarian planning, rushing to the rescue, has at times deepened that structural violence.Humanitarian planning in Bangladesh, for instance, is forcibly displacing one of the largest refugee communities of Rohingyas to a flood-prone and isolated island in the Bay of Bengal.The toxic lands and waters in and around cities exemplify the social-ecological devastations of urbanization we have barely started to redress.As the interlocking crises of what the late bell Hooks (2004) called "imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy" continue, ordinary people all over the world are remaking life in its ruins as the rallying cry of the Pacific Climate Warriors go: "we are not drowning, we are fighting".In this moment, planning, which I broadly understand as the intentional construction of collective life and space, can gain from furthering the conversation on insurgent planning practices.In raising several concerns regarding the elaboration of insurgent planning (IP) practices that I offered in the article (Huq, 2020), "Seeing the Insurgent in Transformative Planning Practices", Basta has opened up the space for that thinking

Epistemology · Pedagogy · Political science · Reading (process · Sociology · Transformative learning · Law · Philosophy · Public Administration · Urban Planning and Governance

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