Elusive Promises by Simone Abram
Planning in contemporary democratic states is often understood as a range of activities, from housing to urban design, regional development to economic planning. This volume sees planning differently—as the negotiation of possibilities that time offers space. It explores what kind of promise planning offers, how such a promise is made, and what happens to it through time. The authors, all leading anthropologists, examine the time and space, creativity and agency, authority and responsibility, and conflicting desires that plans attempt to control. They show how the many people involved with planning deal with the discrepancies between what is promised and what is done. The comparative essays offer insight into the expected and unexpected outcomes of planning (from visionary utopias to bureaucratic dystopia or something in-between), how the future is envisioned at the outset, and what actual work is done and how it affects people’s lives.-
Frontiers of Civil Society
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The Anti-Refugee Machine
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Insidious Capital
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Corporate Social Responsibility and the Paradoxes of State Capitalism
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Crude Domination
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Where Are All Our Sheep?
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Worldwide Mobilizations
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Facing the Crisis
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The Partial Revolution
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Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America
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Bulldozer Capitalism
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From Village Commons to Public Goods
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Where Have All the Homeless Gone?
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Slipping Away
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Struggles for Home
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Class, Contention, and a World in Motion
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Yearnings in the Meantime
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Breaking Rocks
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Indigenist Mobilization
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Made in Sheffield
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The Neoliberal Landscape and the Rise of Islamist Capital in Turkey
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Brazilian Steel Town
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Big Capital in an Unequal World
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Blood and Fire
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Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics
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Urbanizing the Future
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Democracy Struggles
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The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility
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When Women Held the Dragon's Tongue
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Enduring Uncertainty
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Participating in the Global Enterprise
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Biopolitics, Militarism, and Development
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Blood and Oranges
“This is a much needed contribution by anthropologists to a sustained and broad treatment of planning as a socio-cultural process, utilizing multiple case studies from multiple perspectives and theoretical framesSome very insightful analyses can be found in the chapters, particularly regarding the vast differences between places and people around the world, and their efforts to organize reality through what would commonly, but perhaps inaccurately, be subsumed under the term ‘planning.’” · Juris Milestone, Temple University
Simone Abram is Reader at both Durham University and Leeds Met University, and has worked in interdisciplinary planning departments at Sheffield and Cardiff Universities. Her publications include Culture and Planning (Ashgate, 2011), Rationalities of Planning (with Jonathan Murdoch, Ashgate, 2002), and Anthropological Perspectives on Local Development (co-edited with Jacqueline Waldren, Routledge, 1998).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781785332135 |
| ISBN 10 | 1785332139 |
| Title | Elusive Promises |
| Author | Simone Abram |
| Series | Dislocations |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books |
| Year published | 2016-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 196 |
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