Description: The Planning Moment elaborates the myriad ways that plans and planning practices pervade recent global history. The book's twenty-seven case studies draw attention to the centrality of planning in colonial and postcolonial environments, relationships, and contexts.
Brief description: Sarah Van Beurden is Associate Professor History and African American and African Studies at the Ohio State University.
Review Quotes: This deeply interdisciplinary and transregional book emerges from anthropology, history, Science and Technology Studies, museum studies, and sociology, with essays spanning every continent. While each essay tells a highly localized story, together they help us reimagine imperial designs, postcolonial responses, and Cold War exigencies.---Jini Kim Watson, author of Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization