Robert A. Beauregard, Planning Matter: Acting with Things, University of Chicago Press, 2015; ISBN: 978-0-226-29739-2; 256 pp.
| dc.contributor.author | Marskamp, Marko | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-02-05T12:49:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-02-05T12:49:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | en |
| dc.description | plaNext-Next Generation Planning Vol. 6 (2018): Open call 46-49 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In Planning Matter Robert Beauregard explores the contribution of actor-network theory (ANT) to the study and practice of planning. This is a difficult task since ANT is not a theory in the traditional sense, that can be applied to phenomena and render explanations. Perhaps, it is best described as a method that informs a relational understanding of specific situations. It is also a tricky task because it implies seeing a modern discipline through the lens of a literature that claims ‘we have never been modern’ (Latour, 1993). Beauregard (1989; 1991) has long grappled with the tension between post-modern theory and modern planning, and in this book, he concentrates on a non-modern challenge. Instead of a seemingly head-on collision (Chapter 1), the book describes a productive encounter that provides insight into planning’s post-modern tensions. ANT can inspire planners ‘[to] become moral agents deeply entangled with the material world’ (p. 226) and, in an unexpected manner, help modern planning to become relevant again today. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.24306/plnxt.2018.06.003 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2468-0648 | en |
| dc.identifier.pageNumber | 46-49 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.24306/plnxt.2018.06.003 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/1327 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | AESOP | en |
| dc.rights | openaccess | en |
| dc.rights.license | CC BY 4.0 | en |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 | en |
| dc.source | plaNext-Next Generation Planning Vol. 6 (2018): Open call | en |
| dc.title | Robert A. Beauregard, Planning Matter: Acting with Things, University of Chicago Press, 2015; ISBN: 978-0-226-29739-2; 256 pp. | |
| dc.type | bookReview | en |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion | en |