Environment planning after decolonial critique: on politics of knowledge, freedom and future

Jon, I ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3812-8168 2025. Environment planning after decolonial critique: on politics of knowledge, freedom and future. Allemendinger, P, Twedwr-Jones, M and Wargent, M, eds. Critical Planning Futures: New Directions in Planning Theory, London: Routledge, pp. 28-43. (10.4324/9781003402855)

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Abstract

What’s to become of environment planning after reckoning with the fact that planning, justified in the name of ameliorating the present, often finds itself at the heart of a modernist project subject to decolonial critique? This chapter starts with the problem of the planning’s dilemma in its commitment to the betterment of a given situation versus the idea of planning as being subservient to structural constraints, inclusive of colonialist and capitalist urban development. This is an increasingly difficult conundrum under the contemporary climate disfigurations that demand collective attention and action. I argue that engaging with the three themes found in critical Black thought – on politics of knowledge, defining “freedom,” and envisioning of “futures” – can help us navigate the conceptual challenges that planning thought faces today, especially under the rising call for a more decolonial scholarship in the climate crisis epoch. The implication for planning entails a radical reconceptualisation of “planning” as a collective subscription to the ideas and narratives enabling the spatial politics of anti-domination.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher:	Routledge
ISBN:	9781032515687
Last Modified:	11 Jun 2025 10:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/178609

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