ABSTRACT
The work of unlearning privilege in planning, then, is about historicising the ideological formations of planning, its silences and formative productions, its practices, expressions and rationalities. The domain of planning is one area of many where injustices against Indigenous peoples remain. Indigenous people are a group structured by many other forms of oppression as well: exploitation, marginalization, and violence. The decolonization of planning must proceed as a complex renegotiation of values, knowledge, meaning, agency and power between planning and Indigenous peoples, and within planning itself. Plurality, situatedness, values, justice, the undoing of all fixity, the articulation of equivalences: all are forms of difference recognition already being discussed in the planning field. This chapter explores some ideas for what that transformative practice might be, starting from the premise that a decolonization of planning is required. The critical stance of analysis that is so necessary to the work of the decolonization of planning must take place within a spirit of love.
