IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/cipsxx/v20y2015i4p424-443.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Claiming Invited and Invented Spaces : Contingencies for Insurgent Planning Practices

Author

Listed:
  • Pranita Shrestha
  • Rolee Aranya

Abstract

Insurgent planning practice is an emerging idea for counter-hegemonic urban planning in the Global South, derived (generalized) from empirical work on specific southern contexts (Watson, V. 2013. "Planning and the 'Stubborn Realities' of Global South-East Cities: Some Emerging Ideas." Planning Theory 12 (1): 81-100. doi:10.1177/1473095212446301). In this paper, we position ourselves with Meth (2010. "Unsettling Insurgency: Reflections on Women's Insurgent Practices in South Africa." Planning Theory and Practice 11 (2): 241-263) who argues that insurgence and insurgent planning practices cannot be generalized across contexts but requires specific case by case empirical analysis to understand tactics and strategies within very different political and institutional situations. This paper is based on empirical evidence from two specific case-by-case analysis of potential insurgent action in Kathmandu, Nepal. We find that if insurgence is to present hope for counter-hegemonic outcomes in the context of Nepal, it is contingent upon a maturity of grass-roots organization, sharing of power among these, what constitutes 'planning' in insurgent planning and how success of such actions is measured. There is also a strong role of the nature of social mobilization and the institutional context of planning.

Suggested Citation

  • Pranita Shrestha & Rolee Aranya, 2015. "Claiming Invited and Invented Spaces : Contingencies for Insurgent Planning Practices," International Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(4), pages 424-443, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cipsxx:v:20:y:2015:i:4:p:424-443
    DOI: 10.1080/13563475.2015.1028909
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13563475.2015.1028909
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/13563475.2015.1028909?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Abigail Friendly, 2022. "INSURGENT PLANNING IN PANDEMIC TIMES: The Case of Rio de Janeiro," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 46(1), pages 115-125, January.
    2. Reshma Shrestha & Jaap Zevenbergen & Fahria Masum & Mahesh Banskota, 2018. "“Action Space” Based Urban Land Governance Pattern: Implication in Managing Informal Settlements from the Perspective of Low-Income Housing," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(7), pages 1-19, June.
    3. Prathiwi Widyatmi Putri, 2020. "Insurgent planner: Transgressing the technocratic state of postcolonial Jakarta," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 57(9), pages 1845-1865, July.
    4. Stephanie Butcher, 2021. "DIFFERENTIATED CITIZENSHIP: The Everyday Politics of the Urban Poor in Kathmandu, Nepal," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 45(6), pages 948-963, November.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:cipsxx:v:20:y:2015:i:4:p:424-443. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/cips20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.