The Planning Moment: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories by Sarah Blacker Paperb

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The Planning Moment elaborates the myriad ways that plans and planning practices pervade recent global history. The book's twenty-seven case studies draw attention to the centrality of planning in colonial and postcolonial environments, relationships, and contexts.

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Empires and their aftermaths were massive planning institutions; in the past two hundred years, the natural and social sciences emerged-at least in part-as modes of knowledge production for imperial planning. Yet these connections are frequently under-emphasized in the history of science and its corollary fields. The Planning Moment explores the myriad ways plans and planning practices pervade recent global history. The book is built around twenty-seven brief case studies that explore the centrality of planning in colonial and postcolonial environments, relationships, and contexts, through a range of disciplines: the history of science, science and technology studies, colonial and postcolonial studies, urban studies, and the history of knowledge.If colonialism made certain landscapes, populations, and institutions legible while obscuring others, The Planning Moment reveals the frequently disruptive and violent processes of erasure in imperial planning by examining how "common sense" was produced and how the intransigence of planning persists long after decolonization. In recognizing the resistance and subversion that often met colonial plans, the book makes visible a range of strategies and techniques by which planning was modified and reappropriated, and by which decolonial futures might be imagined.Contributors: Itty Abraham, Benjamin Allen, Sarah Blacker, Emily Brownell, Lino Camprubi, John DiMoia, Mona Fawaz, Lilly Irani, Chihyung Jeon, Robert Kett, Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach, Karen McAllister, Laura Mitchell, Gregg Mitman, Aaron Moore (?), Nada Moumtaz, Tahani Nadim, Anindita Nag, Raul Necochea Lopez, Tamar Novick, Benjamin Peters, Juno Salazar Parrenas, Martina Schluender, Sarah Van Beurden, Helen Verran, Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes, Alexandra Widmer, and Alden Young

Author Biography

Sarah Blacker (Edited By) Sarah Blacker is a Sessional Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science at York University, Toronto.Emily Brownell (Edited By) Emily Brownell is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental History at the University of Edinburgh.Anindita Nag (Edited By) Anindita Nag is Associate Professor and the Associate Dean of International Affairs at the Jindal School of Art and Architecture, New Delhi.Martina Schlünder (Edited By) Martina Schlünder is a Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and a visiting associate professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Center for Technology, Innovation, and Culture at the University of Oslo.Helen Verran (Edited By) Helen Verran taught history and philosophy of science at University of Melbourne Australia, for nearly twenty-five years. Since 2012 she has been Research Professor at Charles Darwin University. Verran's book Science and an African Logic (University of Chicago Press, 2001) was awarded the Society for the Social Studies of Science's Ludwik Fleck Prize in 2003.Sarah Van Beurden (Edited By) Sarah Van Beurden is Associate Professor History and African American and African Studies at the Ohio State University.Dagmar Schäfer (Foreword By) Dagmar Schäfer is Director of Department III, "Artifacts, Action, Knowledge," at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

Table of Contents

Forewordby Dagmar Schäfer | ixEntanglements of Colonial and Postcolonial Planning:An Introduction | 1Census: New Hebrides/Vanuatu, 1967Alexandra Widmer | 20Charcoal: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1973Emily Brownell | 29COBOL: The Pentagon, United States of America, 1959Benjamin Allen | 37Computing: United States of America, 1949Benjamin Peters | 46Constitution: India, 1950Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach | 56Dam: South Korea, 1961Aaron S. Moore | 64Dodecahedral Silo: Spain, 1953Lino Camprubí | 76EMES Sonochron: Federal Republic of Germany, 1986Martina Schlünder | 84Famine: India, 1877Anindita Nag | 96Fertility Survey Workforce: Puerto Rico, 1949Raúl Necochea López | 104Fertilizer: South Korea, 1952John DiMoia | 113Grid: New York, United States of America, 1972Robert J. Kett | 124Hackathon: India, 2012Lilly Irani | 133Kishikishi: Belgian Congo, 1956Sarah Van Beurden | 144Land Parcel: Lebanon, 1990Mona Fawaz and Nada Moumtaz | 152National Budget: Sudan, 1946Alden Young | 160Orangutans: Borneo, 1962Juno Salazar Parreñas | 168Parasite: Liberia, 1926Gregg Mitman | 176Riverbed: South Korea, 2008Chihyung Jeon | 186Seeds: German East Africa, 1892Tahani Nadim | 195Steel Plant: Orissa State, India, 1955Itty Abraham | 204Surnames: Brazil, 1979Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes | 212Taxonomer: United States of America, 1923Laura J. Mitchell | 220Treasures: Palestine/Israel, 1979Tamar Novick | 230Water Samples: Treaty 8 Territory, Canada, 2012Sarah Blacker | 235Weeds: Laos, 2006Karen McAllister | 245Zoomorphic Wickerwork Figure: Australian Administered British New Guinea, 1908Helen Verran | 254The Planning Moment: Avenues for Analysis | 265Acknowledgments | 275Archival Sources | 277Bibliography | 279List of Contributors | 311Index | 315

Review

The Planning Moment provides a much-needed revision to the notion of a homogenous modernity and to top-down accounts of state planning. In recognizing the contested and often multiple futures that emerged from the disjuncture between plan and action, the book charts fresh directions past impasses that mark contemporary technophilia and technophobia.---Orit Halpern, author of The Smartness MandateThis deeply interdisciplinary and transregional book emerges from anthropology, history, Science and Technology Studies, museum studies, and sociology, with essays spanning every continent. While each essay tells a highly localized story, together they help us reimagine imperial designs, postcolonial responses, and Cold War exigencies.---Jini Kim Watson, author of Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization

Details ISBN1531506631 Author Benjamin Allen Pages 336 Publisher Fordham University Press Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781531506636 Format Paperback Imprint Fordham University Press Subtitle Colonial and Postcolonial Histories Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Edited by Sarah Van Beurden Audience Professional & Vocational Illustrations 8 b/w illustrations DEWEY 325.309 ISBN-10 1531506631 UK Release Date 2024-05-07 Publication Date 2024-05-07 US Release Date 2024-05-07 We've got this

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