ISBN:
978-1-78533-213-5
,
978-0-85745-915-2 (Hb.)
,
978-0-85745-916-9 /E-Book
Language:
English
Pages:
vii, 187 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
First paperback edition
Series Statement:
Dislocations 11
Keywords:
Stadtforschung, ethnologische Stadt
;
Stadtplanung
;
Gemeindesoziologie
;
Urbanisation
;
Kulturanthropologie
;
Neoliberalismus
;
Norwegen
;
Peru
;
Südafrika
;
Brasilien
;
Kuala Lumpur 〈Malaysia〉
Abstract:
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. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Elusive Promises: Planning in the Contemporary World, An Introduction / Simone Abram and Gisa Weszkalnys -- Chapter 1 Utopian Time and Contemporary Time: Temporal Dimensions of Planning and Reform in the Norwegian Welfare State / Halvard Vike -- Chapter 2 From Within a Community of Planners: Hypercomplexity in Railway Design Work / Åsa Boholm-- Chapter 3 Invaded City: Structuring Urban Landscapes on the Margins of the Possible (Peru's Southern Highlands) / Sarah Lund -- Chapter 4 Tenure Refomed: Planning for Redress or Progress in South Africa / Deborah James -- Chapter 5 Redeeming the Promise of Inclusion in the Neo-liberal City: Grassroots Contention in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil / John Gledhill -- Chapter 6 Even Governmentality Begins as an Image: Institutional Planning in Kuala Lumpur / Richard Baxstrom -- Chapter 7 Making a River of Gold: Speculative State Planning, Informality and Neo-liberal Governance on the Hooghly / Laura Bear-- Contributors -- Index
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