Coelho, Luana Xavier Pinto;
Melgaco, Lorena;
Saharan, Tara;
Rajendran, Lakshmi Priya;
(2025)
Decolonizing Urban Planning Research in Global South: A Call for Shifting the Gaze.
Journal of Planning Education and Research
10.1177/0739456X251325150.
(In press).
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Abstract
Given that urban planning has served colonial and imperialist purposes, this commentary explores the existing challenges for early-career researchers conducting research designed in the Global North and carried out in/on the Global South. We offer a series of questions and provocations as an invitation to colleagues facing similar dilemmas to reflect on their own research from a decolonial methodological critique (theory, practice, and politics). We aim to broaden the questions that should be asked when choosing to study marginalized communities, with the hope that these reflections can shift the gaze and move research toward more just and rewarding practices.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Decolonizing Urban Planning Research in Global South: A Call for Shifting the Gaze |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0739456X251325150 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456x251325150 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Keywords: | decolonial methodology, research questions,“slum” settlements, urban planning, Global South |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10207947 |
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