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Insurgent Planning: Situating Radical Planning in the Global South
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This article revisits the notion of radical planning from the standpoint of the global South. Emerging struggles for citizenship in the global South, seasoned by the complexities of state—citizen relations within colonial and post-colonial regimes, offer an historicized view indispensable to counter-hegemonic planning practices. The article articulates the notion of insurgent planning as radical planning practices that respond to neoliberal specifics of dominance through inclusion — that is, inclusive governance. It characterizes the guiding principles for insurgent planning practices as counter-hegemonic, transgressive and imaginative. The article contributes to two current conversations within planning scholarship: on the implication of grassroots insurgent citizenship for planning, and on (de)colonization of planning theory.
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“Thus, while the neoliberal state works to silence any reference to a social past, insurgent practices 'stimulate historical collective memories and historicize the problems arising from the actions and inactions of authorities--what Sandercock [1998] calls insurgent historiographies' (Miraftab, 2009: 45).”
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“Mesa demonstrates how heritage grassroots organizations use AHD to counter hegemonic moves without limiting themselves to 'invited' spaces of participation, instead combining them with new spaces or reappropriating old ones to invoke people's citizenship rights and advance their interests (Miraftab, 2009: 35).”
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“Miraftab (2009: 33) defined the principles of insurgent planning as counterhegemonic, transgressive and imaginative: counter-hegemonic because they destabilize the normalized order of things; transgressive because they transgress time and place by locating historical memory and transnational consciousness at the heart of grassroots actions; and imaginative because they promote alternative futures.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Miraftab, F.
- Affiliations
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA,
- Venue
- Planning Theory
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2009-02
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 32-50
- ISSN
- 1473-0952
- 1741-3052
- Cited by
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- Language
- en
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