A Lacanian understanding of the southern planning theorists' identification under the hegemony of western philosophy

dc.contributor.authorMohammadzadeh, Mohsen
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-07T10:15:59Z
dc.date.available2024-02-07T10:15:59Z
dc.date.issued2021en
dc.descriptionplaNext-Next Generation Planning Vol. 11 (2021) : Planning Theories from the Global South 62-80
dc.description.abstractAs a planning theorist who has studied and taught planning theory in the Global South and North, I grapple with the question - "What does planning theory mean in the Global South?" To answer this question, I ontologically investigate the meaning of Southern planning theory based on a Lacanian approach. Drawing on the Lacanian theory of human subjectivity, this article explains how planning theorists’ identities are constituted through their interactions within academia. Lacanian discourse theory assists in exploring how most Southern planning theorists adopt, internalise, and use hegemonic Western philosophy, ideas, and discourses as the only accepted mechanism of truth. Consequently, this process profoundly alienates Southern planning theorists from their local context, as they often devalue, overlook, and neglect non-Western beliefs, ideas, knowledge, and philosophy. I argue that although the number of Southern planning theorists has increased during the last decades, non-Western philosophy is seldom utilised as the core of their critical studies. Based on the Lacanian discourse theory, I show that they mostly remain in the hegemonic mechanism of knowledge production that is embedded in the colonial era.
dc.identifier.doi10.24306/plnxt/68
dc.identifier.issn2468-0648en
dc.identifier.pageNumber62-80
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.24306/plnxt/68
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/1363
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAESOPen
dc.rightsopenaccessen
dc.rights.licenseCC BY 4.0en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en
dc.sourceplaNext-Next Generation Planning Vol. 11 (2021) : Planning Theories from the Global Southen
dc.subjectPlanningen
dc.subjectLacanen
dc.subjectPlanning Theoriesen
dc.subjectGlobal Southen
dc.subjectHegemonyen
dc.subjectWestern Philosophyen
dc.subjectColonialismen
dc.subjectDecolonialityen
dc.subjectLacanian discourse theoryen
dc.subjectSouthern planning theoryen
dc.titleA Lacanian understanding of the southern planning theorists' identification under the hegemony of western philosophy
dc.typearticleen
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen
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