Closing the Gap: Decolonisation, ANT and Bridging the Divide Between Urban Planning Practitioners and Academics

Abstract

. These examples not only deepen an ongoing conversation about how planning theorists and practitioners conceive and take action in the face of multiple and often overlapping forms of planning authority, but they also provide an important point of departure in ongoing conversations about the decolonization of planning and the search for a just planning relationship with Indigenous people. … They also suggest that any meaningful steps towards the decolonization of the planning profession may, in fact, be predicated on a more fundamental reconsideration of governance categories, identities and divisions of labour that frame how planners work to ful fi l their ongoing treaty responsibilities. (Barry and Thompson-Fawcett 2020)