Insurgent Planning: Situating Radical Planning in the Global South

by Faranak Miraftab, Planning Theory, 2009

Abstact

This article revisits the notion of radical planning from the
standpoint of the global South. Emerging struggles for citizenship in the
global South, seasoned by the complexities of state–citizen relations
within colonial and post-colonial regimes, offer an historicized view
indispensable to counter-hegemonic planning practices. The article articulates
the notion of insurgent planning as radical planning practices that
respond to neoliberal specifics of dominance through inclusion – that is,
inclusive governance. It characterizes the guiding principles for insurgent
planning practices as counter-hegemonic, transgressive and imaginative.
The article contributes to two current conversations within planning
scholarship: on the implication of grassroots insurgent citizenship for
planning, and on (de)colonization of planning theory.