The “slow anatomy of change”: urban knowledge trajectories towards an inclusive settlement upgrading agenda in Freetown, Sierra Leone

IF 2 2区经济学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environment and Urbanization Pub Date : 2022-07-28 DOI:10.1177/09562478221106611

J. Macarthy, Braima Koroma, C. Cociña, S. Butcher, Alexandre Apsan Frediani

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Abstract

This paper examines the dominant knowledge paradigms that have underpinned planning over time in Freetown, Sierra Leone and their implications for urban equality. Looking at the history of the informal settlement upgrading agenda, it presents this analysis through a historical mapping, outlining the knowledge paradigms that have informed planning approaches from the colonial era to the present day. It then outlines three strategic moments over the past 13 years, in which organized informal settlement residents and wider coalitions have mobilized diverse forms of knowledge. By engaging both with long-term trajectories and the intimacy of more recent experiences, it outlines what we refer to as the “slow anatomy of change” through which diverse knowledges have been consolidated. The paper offers reflections on the temporalities and geographies of change; the role of knowledge production as a historical site of power disparities; and what these strategies tell us about the negotiation of power and knowledge through planning towards urban equality.

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“缓慢剖析变化”：塞拉利昂弗里敦实现包容性定居点升级议程的城市知识轨迹

本文考察了长期以来支撑塞拉利昂弗里敦规划的主要知识范式及其对城市平等的影响。着眼于非正式住区升级议程的历史，它通过历史地图呈现了这一分析，概述了从殖民时代到现在为规划方法提供信息的知识范式。然后，它概述了过去13年的三个战略时刻，在这些时刻，有组织的非正式定居点居民和更广泛的联盟动员了各种形式的知识。通过对长期轨迹和近期经验的深入研究，它概述了我们所说的“变化的缓慢解剖”，通过这种解剖，各种知识得到了巩固。本文对变化的时代性和地域性进行了反思;知识生产作为权力差距的历史场所的作用;这些策略告诉我们通过规划实现城市平等的权力和知识的谈判。

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期刊介绍： Environment and Urbanization aims to provide an effective means for the exchange of research findings, ideas and information in the fields of human settlements and environment among researchers, activists and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in low- and middle-income nations and between these and researchers, international agency staff, students and teachers in high-income nations. Most of the papers it publishes are written by authors from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Papers may be submitted in French, Spanish or Portuguese, as well as English - and if accepted for publication, the journal arranges for their translation into English. The journal is also unusual in the proportion of its papers that are written by practitioners.