ABSTRACT
Our aim in this work has been to look closely at what is happening, every day, in contemporary planning contact zones, with an explicit political and ethical interest in creating a decolonizing planning praxis. Our analysis has shown how planning is a site of both resistance and resurgent possibility – at the same time as it is the site of renewed tactics of dispossession. Across urban and environmental planning contexts and across different kinds of planning systems, the essential tension between Indigenous sovereignties and relationships with place, and settler-planning orders of property, certainty and an undifferentiated public interest becomes very clear. The four case studies and the comparative analysis we present in this book all speak to this underlying tension and its essential irreducibility via the dominant modes of recognition currently employed by settler states to manage the unsettling nature of Indigenous claims.
