Expanding the ‘dark side of planning’: Governmentality and biopolitics in urban garden planning

Certomà, Chiara

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“…Therefore, the urban gardens within this context can be argued to be tools of disciplining the social fabric and making the projects embody or reproduce entrepreneurial values (McClintock, 2014;Weissman, 2015). Gardeners may unwittingly integrate mainstream post-crisis subjectivities that naturalize the self-responsibility about urban improvement and transformation, hindering more collective political actions (Certomà, 2015).…”

Section: Discussion: Unearthing the Meanings And Politics Of Urban Gamentioning

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Crisis and post-crisis urban gardening initiatives from a Southern European perspective: The case of Barcelona

Calvet-Mir

March

2017

European Urban and Regional Studies

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Throughout the 20th century, urban gardening in central and northern Europe as well as in North America has received a great deal of academic attention. However, the recent proliferation of urban gardening in other geographies, such as southern Europe in the aftermath of the economic crisis of 2007–2008, remains underexplored. The economic crisis put on hold urban developments in many southern European cities, leaving idle plots of land waiting to be urbanized. The crisis also triggered radical political demands, such as those of the Indignados, as well as fuelling narratives revolving around social entrepreneurship and social innovation. Barcelona emerges as a laboratory of urban gardening initiatives in vacant lots mobilizing either radical urban demands or embedding new post-crisis rhetoric around social entrepreneurship. Through a combination of qualitative methods, including participant observation, a literature review, semi-structured interviews, informal conversations and field diaries, we present a characterization and evolution of the three most prominent urban gardening initiatives in the city of Barcelona (including 54 gardens at the end of 2016): the Network of Municipal Gardens (municipally led gardens for retired people); the Network of Communitarian Gardens (social movements); and the Empty Plots Plan (social entrepreneurial urban gardening). Subsequently, we discuss the different meanings of gardening in crisis/post-crisis Barcelona as well as the urban politics that each initiative articulates. Our results show that urban gardens within the city are an expression of different and non-exclusive meanings that explicitly or implicitly, in a context of crisis and post-crisis, mobilize notions of political gardening.

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Section: Discussion: Unearthing the Meanings And Politics Of Urban Gamentioning

confidence: 99%

Crisis and post-crisis urban gardening initiatives from a Southern European perspective: The case of Barcelona

Calvet-Mir

March

2017

European Urban and Regional Studies

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“…The rationalities of biopolitics underpin multiple facets of urban politics, from planning and governance, to security and citizenship. Planning, for example, acts as a biopolitical strategy that regulates urban populations, both human and non‐human (see Certoma 2015; Ploger 2008), while promoting “enjoyment” for “normative” residents (see Rutland 2015). Meanwhile, housing serves as a biopolitical intervention for idealised residents—from formalising schemes that transform informal settlers into homeowners (Campbell 2013) to mortgage arrangements that tie future labour and wellbeing to volatile property markets (Garcia‐Lamarka and Kaika 2016).…”

Section: Urbanisation and (Bio)necropoliticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exposing Necroburbia: Suburban Relocation, Necropolitics, and Violent Geographies in Manila

Ortega

2020

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When accumulation in southern cities entails the dispossession of informal settlers, where do they go and what spatialities emerge out of their dispossession? In Manila, this occurs through a violent form of suburbanisation. To make way for modern and investment-friendly spaces, informal settlers are exiled to relocation sites in the suburban fringe. This process of accumulation by suburban relocation engenders necroburbia, a dystopic suburban periphery constituted by distant relocation sites where evicted settlers are subjected into violent and asphyxiating everyday geographies. It serves as a spatial fix to enable metropolitan accumulation. Drawing on Achilles Mbembe's notion of necropolitics, I expose necroburbia as a deceptive and violent space, produced through three spatialities: (1) demolition; (2) relocation; (3) necro-suburbanisms, or everyday ways of necropolitical living. These processes illustrate how urban fantasies of growth in cities like Manila are predicated upon necropolitical realities rendering informal settlers as expendable populations, deserving of everyday brutalities.Abstrak: Kung ang paglago ng mga lungsod ay nakabatay sa pagpapalayas ng mga maralita, mahalagang itanong kung saan sila napapadpad at anong mga espasyo ang maaring umusbong mula sa kanilang karanasan? Sa Kamaynilaan, naisasagawa ito sa pamamagitan ng marahas na porma ng urbanisasyon. Upang mapasinayaan ang moderno at angkop na espasyo para sa pamumuhunan, pinapalayas at nililipat ang mga maralita sa mga relokasyon na nasa malalayong kanugnugan ng Kamaynilaan. Ibinibunga ng prosesong ito ang nekroburbya, isang marahas na espasyo na dinadanas ng mga tinataboy na mararalita at nagsisilbing aregladong espasyo ('spatial fix') upang ipadaloy ang kapital. Hango sa teorya ni Achille Mbembe na nekropolitiks, nilalayon kong ilantad ang nekroburbya bilang isang mapanlinlang at marahas na espasyo na binubunga ng tatlong proseso: (1) demolisyon; (2) relokasyon at; (3) nekro-suburbanismo o ang marahas na pang-araw-araw na pamumuhay sa ilalim ng nekropolitiks. Ang mga prosesong ito ay nagpapakita sa pantasiya ng kalungsuran kung saan ang paglago ng syudad gaya ng Maynila ay batay sa realidad ng nekropolitiks na ang mga maralita ay tinuturing mga hamak at patapon, hinahayaang mamuhay ng walang katiyakan, at tinitignan na karapat-dapat lamang na dumanas ng hirap at dahas.We are slowly being killed here. (Interview, relocated residents, 2012) In "off-city" relocation sites of Manila's fringe, death looms as a force defining the lives of residents. Justine Billones, the three-year-old daughter of a relocatee family died of severe diarrhoea, allegedly due to water poisoning in one of the villages

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“…The paper is a theoreticallyinformed analysis of planning regulation and is therefore characteristic of the 'practice turn' in planning theory (Inch, 2018, p. 205). Foucauldian analyses of planning are typically associated with a 'dark side of planning theory' emphasising social control, surveillance and subjection (Inch, 2018;Huxley, 2018;Yiftachel, 1998;Flyvbjerg, 1996;Certomà, 2015). Yet this reflects a partial account of Foucault's work (Huxley, 2018) and an increasing range of studies focus on expanding Foucault's concepts applied to planning, including the concept of governmentality (Certomà, 2015).…”

Section: Governmentality and Land-use Planningmentioning

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Exceptional Spaces for Sustainable Living: The Regulation of One Planet Developments in the Open Countryside

Harris

2019

Planning Theory & Practice

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This paper explores the 'regime of practices' that are put in place when novel forms of sustainable living in the countryside are proposed that nevertheless contrast with established planning rationalities of urban containment and countryside protection. The article uses Foucault's concept of governmentality to explore the innovative and arguably progressive One Planet Development policy in Wales. The paper focuses in particular on the Ecological Footprint and its associated data and monitoring requirements as a way of demonstrating One Planet Living. The analysis highlights the tensions between enabling One Planet Development and the governance of individuals' lives and behaviours.

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Expanding the ‘dark side of planning’: Governmentality and biopolitics in urban garden planning

Cited by 42 publications

References 52 publications

Crisis and post-crisis urban gardening initiatives from a Southern European perspective: The case of Barcelona

Crisis and post-crisis urban gardening initiatives from a Southern European perspective: The case of Barcelona

Exposing Necroburbia: Suburban Relocation, Necropolitics, and Violent Geographies in Manila

Exceptional Spaces for Sustainable Living: The Regulation of One Planet Developments in the Open Countryside

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