“Models of Indigenous Development” considers different models of indigenous development and provides examples of development as a means of resistance. Of particular interest for me was the discussion on the need to decolonize planning. Various essays in this volume ask us to consider if using Western ideas of planning can lead to anything but a replication of Western ideas of economic success.
Similar to the critiques around the role of accounting in reproducing certain economic norms, this volume argues that there is a need to decolonize the tool of planning as part of positioning it within Indigenous methodologies. This analysis also makes me think about the need for a further analysis of the tools used in economic development to determine where these tools need to be reconsidered for their neutrality and/or the need to rethink how to indigenize some of these tools.
What other analysis tools do we need to reconsider with the indigenous lens?
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