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Overview"Empires and their aftermaths were massive planning institutions; in the past two hundred years, the natural and social sciences emerged-at least in part-as modes of knowledge production for imperial planning. Yet these connections are frequently under-emphasized in the history of science and its corollary fields. The Planning Moment explores the myriad ways plans and planning practices pervade recent global history. The book is built around twenty-seven brief case studies that explore the centrality of planning in colonial and postcolonial environments, relationships, and contexts, through a range of disciplines: the history of science, science and technology studies, colonial and postcolonial studies, urban studies, and the history of knowledge. If colonialism made certain landscapes, populations, and institutions legible while obscuring others, The Planning Moment reveals the frequently disruptive and violent processes of erasure in imperial planning by examining how ""common sense"" was produced and how the intransigence of planning persists long after decolonization. In recognizing the resistance and subversion that often met colonial plans, the book makes visible a range of strategies and techniques by which planning was modified and reappropriated, and by which decolonial futures might be imagined. Contributors: Itty Abraham, Benjamin Allen, Sarah Blacker, Emily Brownell, Lino Camprubi, John DiMoia, Mona Fawaz, Lilly Irani, Chihyung Jeon, Robert Kett, Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach, Karen McAllister, Laura Mitchell, Gregg Mitman, Aaron Moore (?), Nada Moumtaz, Tahani Nadim, Anindita Nag, Raul Necochea Lopez, Tamar Novick, Benjamin Peters, Juno Salazar Parrenas, Martina Schluender, Sarah Van Beurden, Helen Verran, Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes, Alexandra Widmer, and Alden Young" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sarah Blacker , Emily Brownell , Anindita Nag , Martina SchlünderPublisher: Fordham University Press Imprint: Fordham University Press Weight: 0.508kg ISBN: 9781531506636ISBN 10: 1531506631 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 07 May 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsForeword by Dagmar Schäfer | ix Entanglements of Colonial and Postcolonial Planning: An Introduction | 1 Census: New Hebrides/Vanuatu, 1967 Alexandra Widmer | 20 Charcoal: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1973 Emily Brownell | 29 COBOL: The Pentagon, United States of America, 1959 Benjamin Allen | 37 Computing: United States of America, 1949 Benjamin Peters | 46 Constitution: India, 1950 Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach | 56 Dam: South Korea, 1961 Aaron S. Moore | 64 Dodecahedral Silo: Spain, 1953 Lino Camprubí | 76 EMES Sonochron: Federal Republic of Germany, 1986 Martina Schlünder | 84 Famine: India, 1877 Anindita Nag | 96 Fertility Survey Workforce: Puerto Rico, 1949 Raúl Necochea López | 104 Fertilizer: South Korea, 1952 John DiMoia | 113 Grid: New York, United States of America, 1972 Robert J. Kett | 124 Hackathon: India, 2012 Lilly Irani | 133 Kishikishi: Belgian Congo, 1956 Sarah Van Beurden | 144 Land Parcel: Lebanon, 1990 Mona Fawaz and Nada Moumtaz | 152 National Budget: Sudan, 1946 Alden Young | 160 Orangutans: Borneo, 1962 Juno Salazar Parreñas | 168 Parasite: Liberia, 1926 Gregg Mitman | 176 Riverbed: South Korea, 2008 Chihyung Jeon | 186 Seeds: German East Africa, 1892 Tahani Nadim | 195 Steel Plant: Orissa State, India, 1955 Itty Abraham | 204 Surnames: Brazil, 1979 Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes | 212 Taxonomer: United States of America, 1923 Laura J. Mitchell | 220 Treasures: Palestine/Israel, 1979 Tamar Novick | 230 Water Samples: Treaty 8 Territory, Canada, 2012 Sarah Blacker | 235 Weeds: Laos, 2006 Karen McAllister | 245 Zoomorphic Wickerwork Figure: Australian Administered British New Guinea, 1908 Helen Verran | 254 The Planning Moment: Avenues for Analysis | 265 Acknowledgments | 275 Archival Sources | 277 Bibliography | 279 List of Contributors | 311 Index | 315ReviewsThe Planning Moment provides a much-needed revision to the notion of a homogenous modernity and to top-down accounts of state planning. In recognizing the contested and often multiple futures that emerged from the disjuncture between plan and action, the book charts fresh directions past impasses that mark contemporary technophilia and technophobia.---Orit Halpern, author of The Smartness Mandate This deeply interdisciplinary and transregional book emerges from anthropology, history, Science and Technology Studies, museum studies, and sociology, with essays spanning every continent. While each essay tells a highly localized story, together they help us reimagine imperial designs, postcolonial responses, and Cold War exigencies.---Jini Kim Watson, author of Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization """The Planning Moment provides a much-needed revision to the notion of a homogenous modernity and to top-down accounts of state planning. In recognizing the contested and often multiple futures that emerged from the disjuncture between plan and action, the book charts fresh directions past impasses that mark contemporary technophilia and technophobia.""---Orit Halpern, author of The Smartness Mandate ""This deeply interdisciplinary and transregional book emerges from anthropology, history, Science and Technology Studies, museum studies, and sociology, with essays spanning every continent. While each essay tells a highly localized story, together they help us reimagine imperial designs, postcolonial responses, and Cold War exigencies.""---Jini Kim Watson, author of Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization" Author InformationSarah Blacker (Edited By) Sarah Blacker is a Sessional Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science at York University, Toronto. Emily Brownell (Edited By) Emily Brownell is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental History at the University of Edinburgh. Anindita Nag (Edited By) Anindita Nag is Associate Professor and the Associate Dean of International Affairs at the Jindal School of Art and Architecture, New Delhi. Martina Schlünder (Edited By) Martina Schlünder is a Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and a visiting associate professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Center for Technology, Innovation, and Culture at the University of Oslo. Helen Verran (Edited By) Helen Verran taught history and philosophy of science at University of Melbourne Australia, for nearly twenty-five years. Since 2012 she has been Research Professor at Charles Darwin University. Verran’s book Science and an African Logic (University of Chicago Press, 2001) was awarded the Society for the Social Studies of Science’s Ludwik Fleck Prize in 2003. Sarah Van Beurden (Edited By) Sarah Van Beurden is Associate Professor History and African American and African Studies at the Ohio State University. Dagmar Schäfer (Foreword By) Dagmar Schäfer is Director of Department III, “Artifacts, Action, Knowledge,” at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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