ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on something much more material, the body. It asks what happened to bodies in planning. The chapter outlines links between our understanding of bodies and our concepts of culture, showing how the production of opposites such as mind and body, culture and nature, reason and emotion are constantly reproduced, with serious consequences for plans and planning. It also describes some Norwegian public sector planners, because the Norwegian political system has well articulated rules and regulations, and is much more open to public scrutiny and academic analysis than the British public sector. The degree of access offered to me was extraordinary and well beyond what would have been possible in the UK at the time, despite the rhetoric of open government often adopted in the UK public sector. All public sector documentation except for private personnel information is held in the public domain in Norway, so this openness was not specifically aimed at me as a researcher.
