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Elusive Promises Planning in the Contemporary World

Abram Simone Weszkalnys Gisa
Innbundet / 2013 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780857459152
Published
2013-08-15
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Weight
435 gr
Height
229 mm
Width
152 mm
Thickness
13 mm
Age
RES, UP, 05
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
196

Edited by
Abram Simone
Weszkalnys Gisa

Biographical note

Simone Abram is Reader at Leeds Met University and has worked in interdisciplinary planning departments at Sheffield and Cardiff Universities. Her publications include Culture and Planning (Ashgate, 2011), Rationalities of Planning (with Jonathan Murdoch, Ashgate, 2002), and Anthropological Perspectives on Local Development (co-edited with Jacqueline Waldren, Routledge, 1998). Gisa Weszkalnys is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. Her book, Berlin, Alexanderplatz: Transforming Place in a Unified Germany (Berghahn Books, 2010) tackles the intricate politics of place in contemporary Berlin. She is currently working on a manuscript focusing on the temporality and materiality of oil exploitation, specifically in West Africa.

Elusive Promises Planning in the Contemporary World

Abram Simone Weszkalnys Gisa
Innbundet / 2013 / Engelsk
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"This is a much needed contribution by anthropologists to a sustained and broad treatment of planning as a socio-cultural process, utilizing multiple case studies from multiple perspectives and theoretical frames. Some very insightful analyses can be found in the chapters, particularly regarding the vast differences between places and people around the world, and their efforts to organize reality through what would commonly, but perhaps inaccurately, be subsumed under the term 'planning.'" * Juris Milestone, Temple University

Planning in contemporary democratic states is often understood as a range of activities, from housing to urban design, regional development to economic planning. This volume sees planning differently - as the negotiation of possibilities that time offers space. It explores what kind of promise planning offers, how such a promise is made, and what happens to it through time. The authors, all leading anthropologists, examine the time and space, creativity and agency, authority and responsibility, and conflicting desires that plans attempt to control. They show how the many people involved with planning deal with the discrepancies between what is promised and what is done. The comparative essays offer insight into the expected and unexpected outcomes of planning (from visionary utopias to bureaucratic dystopia or something in-between), how the future is envisioned at the outset, and what actual work is done and how it affects people's lives.
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Planning in contemporary democratic states is often understood as a range of activities, from housing to urban design, regional development to economic planning. This volume sees planning differently - as the negotiation of possibilities that time offers space.
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List of figures Acknowledgements Notes on contributors Chapter 1. Elusive promises: Planning in the Contemporary World Simone Abram and Gisa Weszkalnys Chapter 2. Utopian Time and Contemporary Time: Temporal Dimensions of Planning and Reform in the Norwegian Welfare State Halvard Vike Chapter 3. Hypercomplexity in collective planning: a case of railway design Asa Boholm Chapter 4. The Invaded City: Structuring an Urban Landscape on the Margins of the Possible (Peru's Southern Highlands) Sarah Lund Chapter 5. Tenure Reformed? State, society and the landless in South Africa Deborah James Chapter 6. Redeeming the Promise of Inclusion in the Neoliberal City: Grassroots Contention in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil John Gledhill Chapter 7. Even Governmentality Begins as an Image: Institutional Planning in Kuala Lumpur Richard Baxstrom Chapter 8. Making a River of Gold: Speculative State Promises and Personal Promises in the Post-Liberalisation Governance of the Hooghly Laura Bear Bibliography Index
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"This is a much needed contribution by anthropologists to a sustained and broad treatment of planning as a socio-cultural process, utilizing multiple case studies from multiple perspectives and theoretical frames. Some very insightful analyses can be found in the chapters, particularly regarding the vast differences between places and people around the world, and their efforts to organize reality through what would commonly, but perhaps inaccurately, be subsumed under the term 'planning.'" * Juris Milestone, Temple University

Planning in contemporary democratic states is often understood as a range of activities, from housing to urban design, regional development to economic planning. This volume sees planning differently - as the negotiation of possibilities that time offers space. It explores what kind of promise planning offers, how such a promise is made, and what happens to it through time. The authors, all leading anthropologists, examine the time and space, creativity and agency, authority and responsibility, and conflicting desires that plans attempt to control. They show how the many people involved with planning deal with the discrepancies between what is promised and what is done. The comparative essays offer insight into the expected and unexpected outcomes of planning (from visionary utopias to bureaucratic dystopia or something in-between), how the future is envisioned at the outset, and what actual work is done and how it affects people's lives.
Read more
Planning in contemporary democratic states is often understood as a range of activities, from housing to urban design, regional development to economic planning. This volume sees planning differently - as the negotiation of possibilities that time offers space.
Read more
List of figures Acknowledgements Notes on contributors Chapter 1. Elusive promises: Planning in the Contemporary World Simone Abram and Gisa Weszkalnys Chapter 2. Utopian Time and Contemporary Time: Temporal Dimensions of Planning and Reform in the Norwegian Welfare State Halvard Vike Chapter 3. Hypercomplexity in collective planning: a case of railway design Asa Boholm Chapter 4. The Invaded City: Structuring an Urban Landscape on the Margins of the Possible (Peru's Southern Highlands) Sarah Lund Chapter 5. Tenure Reformed? State, society and the landless in South Africa Deborah James Chapter 6. Redeeming the Promise of Inclusion in the Neoliberal City: Grassroots Contention in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil John Gledhill Chapter 7. Even Governmentality Begins as an Image: Institutional Planning in Kuala Lumpur Richard Baxstrom Chapter 8. Making a River of Gold: Speculative State Promises and Personal Promises in the Post-Liberalisation Governance of the Hooghly Laura Bear Bibliography Index
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Product details

ISBN
9780857459152
Published
2013-08-15
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Weight
435 gr
Height
229 mm
Width
152 mm
Thickness
13 mm
Age
RES, UP, 05
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
196

Edited by
Abram Simone
Weszkalnys Gisa

Biographical note

Simone Abram is Reader at Leeds Met University and has worked in interdisciplinary planning departments at Sheffield and Cardiff Universities. Her publications include Culture and Planning (Ashgate, 2011), Rationalities of Planning (with Jonathan Murdoch, Ashgate, 2002), and Anthropological Perspectives on Local Development (co-edited with Jacqueline Waldren, Routledge, 1998). Gisa Weszkalnys is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. Her book, Berlin, Alexanderplatz: Transforming Place in a Unified Germany (Berghahn Books, 2010) tackles the intricate politics of place in contemporary Berlin. She is currently working on a manuscript focusing on the temporality and materiality of oil exploitation, specifically in West Africa.

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