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Title: | On the liberal moral project of planning in South Africa |
Author: | Winkler, Tanja |
Year: | 2011 |
Periodical: | Urban Forum (ISSN 1874-6330) |
Volume: | 22 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 135-148 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | urban planning professional ethics liberalism |
External link: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12132-011-9110-4 |
Abstract: | In a recent publication in 'Urban Forum' (2010) on 'Cityness and African Urban Development', Edgar Pieterse calls for a suspension of the 'humanist safety net' that frequently underpins policy prescriptions in most liberal (and social-liberal) democracies. While the present paper supports Pieterse's call, it sets out to demonstrate why it is difficult for most planners to suspend, let alone reject, the 'liberal moral project of planning'. To this end, the role of planning is reassessed by focusing on some of the entrenched liberal legacies in South Africa. Findings spotlight how mainstream practices are directed towards serving 'the public interest' through a liberal calculus of public morality and obligations; and the paper proposes that before planners might begin to engage with Pieterse's project, the current norms of planning need to be challenged first. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |