Insurgent Practices and Decolonization of Future(s)

Miraftab, Faranak

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“…Temporary urbanisms and shadow placemaking Temporary urbanisms are the outcome of processes and practices contributing to spatial and social adaptability, allowing places to be purposely used and activated responding to specific economic and social needs. This concept emerged to explore temporary solutions for housing, or social needs mainly in the Global North (Bishop & Williams, 2012;Oswalt, Overmeyer, & Misselwitz, 2013), but it resonates with research conducted on the realities and challenges of Global South cities where informal and formal interventions shape place (Miraftab, 2009(Miraftab, , 2017Watson, 2013Watson, , 2016. Global South and planning theory debates have begun to explore insurgent planning (Miraftab, 2009(Miraftab, , 2016(Miraftab, , 2017, informed by radical planning approaches initially explored by Friedmann (1973Friedmann ( , 2002 and Sandercock (1998aSandercock ( , 1998b recognizing citizens' practices as forms of planning (Miraftab, 2016).…”

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Planning, temporary urbanism and citizen-led alternative-substitute place-making in the Global South

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This paper argues that planning in the Global South needs to be embedded within a more complex and systemic framework based on understanding cities' functions and transformations, at both local and regional levels, whilst advocating for and incorporating informal and temporary dynamics. This is to differentiate between two competing processes: formal planning and citizen-led place-making, here considered as a form of reactive alternative-substitute place-making that occurs when there is no available alternative. The paper calls for a better integration of such impermanent, adaptable, temporary and alternative forms of place-making into the planning process for regional futures.

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“…In the nearly 20 years since Reformasi , it is significant to observe how grassroots organisations work within ‘invited’ and ‘invented spaces’ of action (Miraftab, , ). Invited spaces are legitimised by other organisations, in particular government and donors, and contribute to maintain the status quo, whereas invented spaces confront authorities and other stakeholders and challenge the status quo (Miraftab, , ). Community groups and organisations can either stay in one of them (usually invited spaces) or regularly move from invited to invented spaces and vice‐versa.…”

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“…Community groups and organisations can either stay in one of them (usually invited spaces) or regularly move from invited to invented spaces and vice‐versa. These spaces are in ‘a mutually constituted, interacting relationship, not a binary one’ (Miraftab, : 280).…”

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“…This is due to the strong influence of top‐down approaches to poverty that reproduce dependency and the status quo, and limit actions only to ‘invited spaces’. Nevertheless, some grassroots organisations have been able to move from ‘invited spaces’ of collective action to ‘invented spaces’ (Miraftab, , ). As elaborated in this article, the invited spaces reproduce the status quo, whereas the invented spaces challenge traditional top‐down, male and elite‐controlled approaches to poverty alleviation.…”

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Urban poverty alleviation strategies in Yogyakarta, Indonesia: Contrasting opportunities for community development

Roitman

2019

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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A multidimensional understanding of poverty includes the access of poor groups to decisionmaking processes based on their needs and aspirations. However, the realisation of this 'right to make decisions' faces multiple obstacles. Over the last 20 years in Indonesia, in a context of a more democratic political environment and policy decentralisation, poverty alleviation policies have followed institutional arrangements to provide communities with opportunities for greater participation in development projects. Poverty data show a clear improvement in the living conditions of urban poor citizens in Indonesia; however, it is unclear whether poor communities have become stronger and more independent from public grants and better able to make their own decisions. This research analysed two urban poor communities in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and found that some communities working on participatory poverty alleviation strategies still face obstacles to becoming more independent and making their own decisions because they remain part of an historical legacy of top-down approaches to poverty, highly dependent on government support and working only within 'invited spaces'. Conversely, those communities with more limited access to government funding have been more innovative in their strategies and have created 'invented spaces' for collective action that allows them to be more independent and empowered.

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“…In two successive interventions, Miraftab (2009, 2017) re-positioned the aspirations of progressive transformative planning practices within a global context where participation is the tool of the master and argued that IP challenges the specifics of neoliberal domination through inclusion and that IP moves from distribution to structural change, that is, IP is counter-hegemonic. Miraftab (2017: 276, 278) conceptualized IP as practices that “ontologically depart from liberal traditions of so-called inclusive planning” as it “shifts the understanding of justice from a liberal Rawlsian notion of justice as fairness to a Youngian notion of justice based on recognition of difference and its politics,” which moves planning from representative democracy to participatory democracy and validates direct action to realize social justice. I build on the modulations that Miraftab (2009, 2017) articulated and weave into conversation scholarship that uses the framework of IP and deepen the meanings associated with the framework.…”

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Seeing the insurgent in transformative planning practices

Huq

2020

Planning Theory

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Insurgent planning and radical planning are two of the most popular conceptual frames of reference for progressive planners and theorists of transformative planning practices. In the past decades, scholars have extended these two planning conceptions to new geographies and realities to shed light on how planning can challenge structural injustices and marginalization. However, less attention has been given to how insurgent planning renovates radical planning practices in response to the crisis of neoliberal urbanization. While appreciating that radical and insurgent planning remain braided in practice, this article contributes to the literature on transformative planning by highlighting how insurgent planning builds on radical planning and innovates with regard to social location, epistemic distinction, and analytical unit.

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Insurgent Practices and Decolonization of Future(s)

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Planning, temporary urbanism and citizen-led alternative-substitute place-making in the Global South

Planning, temporary urbanism and citizen-led alternative-substitute place-making in the Global South

Urban poverty alleviation strategies in Yogyakarta, Indonesia: Contrasting opportunities for community development

Seeing the insurgent in transformative planning practices

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