Porter L. Unlearning the Colonial Cultures of Planning

Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2012. — 192 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7546-4988-5; ISBN: 978-0-7546-9260-7.Planning is here shown to be integral to colonial projects, used to appropriate territory for management by the state and then to produce an ordered, coherent system of land regulation and control. This is both a demonstration of how planning was central to the colonial invasion of settler states, and an analysis of how it endures as a colonial practice in complex post-colonial settings.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