{"product_id":"elusive-promises-9780857459152","title":"Elusive Promises","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlanning 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSimone Abram is Reader at both Durham Unive\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eThis 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 frames. Some 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.’\u003c\/em\u003e”  \u003cstrong\u003e·  Juris Milestone\u003c\/strong\u003e, Temple University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of figures\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \tNotes on contributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Elusive promises: Planning in the Contemporary World An Introduction\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSimone Abram and Gisa Weszkalnys\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2. \u003c\/strong\u003eUtopian Time and Contemporary Time: Temporal Dimensions of Planning and Reform in the Norwegian Welfare State\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHalvard Vike\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Hypercomplexity in collective planning: a case of railway design\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eÅsa Boholm\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Invaded City: Structuring an Urban Landscape on the Margins of the Possible (Peru’s Southern Highlands)\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSarah Lund\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Tenure Reformed? State, society and the landless in South Africa\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDeborah James\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Redeeming the Promise of Inclusion in the Neoliberal City: Grassroots Contention in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJohn Gledhill\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Even Governmentality Begins as an Image: Institutional Planning in Kuala\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eLumpur\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRichard Baxstrom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Making a River of Gold: Speculative State Promises and Personal Promises in the Post-Liberalisation Governance of the Hooghly\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLaura Bear\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038918574423,"sku":"9780857459152","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857459152.jpg?v=1750941935","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/elusive-promises-9780857459152","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}