Insurgent Planning: Resisting Environmental Injustice and Land Commodification in Ayiti (Haiti) Aotearoa (New Zealand), & Trenton

11:15AM, in the Auditorium

Faranak Miraftab’s groundbreaking work on “insurgent planning,” proposed the term to describe radically creative, counterhegemonic, and “transgressive” planning practices which respond to “neoliberal specifics of dominance through… inclusive governance” (2009, p. 32).  This notion of planning insurgency has gone on to inspire a decade of community organizing, planning, action research, and participatory governance, particularly across the global south. How are communities seizing this frame to make stronger claims around participation, resources, and accountability?  How does insurgent planning interface with cooperative land ownership movements, particularly the community land trust model? How do both connect with social movements toward climate justice and sustainability? This panel shares lessons from applications in “insurgent” planning research and practice underway across both urban and rural communities, including efforts in New Zealand, Haiti, and Trenton, New Jersey.