Producing Forests

Abstract

In settler societies such as Australia, the colonial state actively produced its territory to secure it from its former Aboriginal owners. Imperial spatial technologies, including exploration, surveying, mapping, (re)naming, and classification of land and its potential uses, were the primary means of this activity. These were the early foundations of planning as a form of statebased action to secure the ordering of space, the production of knowledge about space, and the organizing of action within space. Through an examination of contemporary environmental planning and its historical roots, this article shows how planning practice continues to be structured by specifically colonial imaginings of place, which serve to continue the erasure of Aboriginal philosophies, knowledge, and relationships with place.

Engaged Urban Pedagogy

“…forms part of a wider landscape concerned with how to decolonise universities and spans political and pedagogic practices. Despite race being a central dimension to the production of the built environment, it has all too often been consigned to the margins of education and research in the British context (see Gale and Thomas, 2020, for a discussion) despite a wealth of work in postcolonial and settler-colonial contexts (see, e.g., Njoh, 2009;Porter, 2010;Winkler, 2018). The nexus between the British imperial project, coloniality and racial capitalism has been overlooked in the ways we conceive urban pedagogy to date in British planning education (see Beebeejaun, 2021).…”