Planung. Geschichte und Gegenwart des Vorgriffs auf die Zukunft

Laak, Dirk van

doi:10.13109/gege.2008.34.3.305

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“…They convincingly argue that planning and social engineering are trans-ideological historical phenomena, which have occurred in liberal-democratic and authoritarian contexts alike in the age of High Modernity. 9 This special issue adheres to this reading of planning history: a belief in (state) planning and in the creation of harmonious and coherent social orders emerged on the left as well as the right, under democratic and non-democratic regimes alike. To that, however, this issue adds the plea for a decentred inquiry.…”

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Experimental Spaces: A Decentred Approachto Planning in High Modernity. Introduction

2015

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Recent years have seen a sharp increase in the scholarly interest in planning and social engineering, which became widespread in the Western world as well as the colonies and postcolonial states in the age of High Modernity. This age, covering the years between 1890 and 1970, has been distinguished from other periods, firstly, by the sheer rapidity of economic, social and cultural changes, such as industrialisation, urbanisation, mass emigration, and the «scientification» of society. 1 What qualifies this period as distinctively modern, however, is that contemporaries themselves were aware that they were entering a «new» era, which offered increased opportunities to shape their own future. 2 The modern became a category of self-identification, combining a sense of crisis with a strong belief in the possibility to perfect society through interventions. Expectations were high: Modernity itself would provide the means, such as scientific knowledge and technological innovations, to channel the sweeping changes and restore a stable order in the post-liberal age. «Planning» as a concept «embodies the belief that social change can be engineered and directed, produced at will». 3 Its emergence at the end of the nineteenth century should be attributed to the rise of the modern political economy, which fostered an instrumental attitude towards nature and people. In reaction to the disturbing social consequences produced by laissez-faire capitalism, industrialisation and urbanisation, professionals and experts launched initiatives to improve social conditions, resulting in the rise of town planning and the incipient welfare state. The state-and at times socially minded industrialists too-became the guarantor of social progress.

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Experimental Spaces: A Decentred Approachto Planning in High Modernity. Introduction

2015

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“…Special journals on the Soviet Union were founded, established journals dedicated special issues to the Soviet Union, and countless individual articles depicted the features of a society that was seen as unique. 27 Actually, distrust in liberal capitalism—as the source of the world economic crisis—and an interest in planning was a global phenomenon at that time, irrespective of ideological inclinations (Zheng and Tang, 2008: 54; van Laak, 2008; Schivelbusch, 2005). Chinese intellectuals had even more reason to study the Soviet Union since its development demonstrated that rapid industrialization could enable an economically backward country to catch up with advanced societies.…”

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Dreaming a Future for China: Visions of Socialism among Chinese Intellectuals in the Early 1930s

Spakowski

2018

Modern China

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The article examines Chinese leftist intellectuals' visions of China's future as they were published in a special issue of Dongfang zazhi (Eastern Miscellany) in 1933. It places their texts in the international tradition of socialism and in particular the tensions between Marxism and "utopian socialism." Two variants of socialism can be identified in the Chinese texts: "Datong socialism," the moral vision of a society of freedom and equality, and Soviet socialism, the vision of an industrialized society with features and institutions as in the Soviet Union. Supporters of both variants identified with the "masses," but remained elitist in that they spoke on behalf of these masses and claimed an intellectual niche in the proletarian society of the future.

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“…that get configured in particular ways in particular places at particular times. Some authors have addressed the ways in which infrastructure have been used to build a sustain political regimes, whether as instruments of territorial integration for nation states (van Laak 2001). We have many examples of close ties of water infrastructure (water canals) and geopolitical processes and developments.…”

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The idea of Morava-Vardar water canal and its long-term geopolitical context

Ejupi

2018

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The aim of this paper is to analyze in chronological terms the idea for the construction of Morava-Vardar canal and the contemporary geopolitical consequences of this project along with its economic, environmental and social impacts. Through critical readings of different contributions and reports made by scientific community, other institutions and media we have presented the idea in chronological terms from the late years of the 19th century until recent years. Continental geographical position Serbs have, has always been considered as an obstacle for their overall development. Through participation in unsustainable geopolitical formations they have continuously managed to develop any kind of connections to the sea. Even though part of various political entities over the time the effort to reach the direct contact to the sea was not successful. For this reason, Serbs raised idea and developed a project to connect their continental state with the sea through construction of the Morava-Vardar water canal. Except economic and environmental consequences, construction of this canal would have geopolitical implications in Balkan Peninsula known as very unstable geopolitical region.

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Planung. Geschichte und Gegenwart des Vorgriffs auf die Zukunft

Cited by 45 publications

References 5 publications

Experimental Spaces: A Decentred Approachto Planning in High Modernity. Introduction

Experimental Spaces: A Decentred Approachto Planning in High Modernity. Introduction

Dreaming a Future for China: Visions of Socialism among Chinese Intellectuals in the Early 1930s

The idea of Morava-Vardar water canal and its long-term geopolitical context

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