Porter (U. of Glasgow, UK) implicates state-based land use planning as a key aspect of colonial settler practices that had and continue to have marginalizing and oppressive effects upon the rights and lives of indigenous peoples. Theoretically informed by Lefebvre's concept of the social production of space, Foucault's work on the intersection of power and knowledge in everyday practices, and a deconstructive stance towards "master narratives" in planning and building, as well as on original field research conducted in Nyah Forest and Gariwerd National Park in Victoria, Australia, she argues that the planning systems of western settler states produce space in ways that are coherent with their modes of production and are distinct from Indigenous productions of space. Following on that argument, she examines the contestations between these different productions of space and seeks to identify where injustice results. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
