ABSTRACT
The struggles and everyday agency that Indigenous people and their allies practise are aimed at a system that continues to largely fail to provide redress for their claims. chapter 4 provided an analysis of that system, showing how the circulation of certain powerful discursive tropes in the fields of both planning and recognition mediate and shape the politics of recognition in the contact zone. Points of profound institutional inertia, structural discrimination and entrenched power are real. Far more than being merely ‘barriers to better recognition’, they work to resettle the challenge Indigenous claims present, in system-maintaining ways. Each of our cases points to the myriad different ways this tendency manifests itself in the day-to-day politics of recognition in planning. In order to understand how this occurs and why the outcomes we presented in the last few chapters look as they do, it is necessary to return to the discursive formulations that mediate and shape the way ‘planning’ and ‘recognition’ are performed together.
