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