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Settler Colonial and Indigenous Geographies

Unsettling ‘The Settler’

Who is ‘the Settler’? What does this category animate and what does it bely? Despite the vast scholarship on histories of settler colonisation, the complex figure of the settler remains largely taken for granted. This lends itself to a banal decolonial politics that urgently requires critique.

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Noam Leshem, Jen Bagelman

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Urban and Urbanization

Planning for Humane Urbanism Through Solidarity and Radical Care

Miraftab invites planning scholars to rethink the field’s futures, rejecting the currently dominant bully urbanism centered on profit, for a humane urbanism centered on life.

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Faranak Miraftab

Settler Colonial and Indigenous Geographies

Unsettling ‘The Settler’

Who is ‘the Settler’? What does this category animate and what does it bely? Despite the vast scholarship on histories of settler colonisation, the complex figure of the settler remains largely taken for granted. This lends itself to a banal decolonial politics that urgently requires critique.

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Noam Leshem, Jen Bagelman

Culture

Starting with Sarinah: Chasing Modernity through Indonesia’s Iconic Shopping Mall

Starting with Sarinah, Indonesia's first and most iconic mall, this essay analyzes the rise and development of shopping malls from being a symbol of national modernity to becoming an emblem of spatial exclusion.

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Dewi Tan

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