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Indigenous Planning: Cracking Coloniality Through Everyday Practices
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Indigenous Planning: Cracking Coloniality Through Everyday Practices

M. Joaquin Lopez-Huertas, Maggie Low, James Miller and Michelle Thompson-Fawcett
Planning theory & practice
07/08/2026
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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/52157

Abstract

Indigenous planning decolonial planning settler state planning Pacific First Nations Abya Yala
This article explores decolonial cracks as the everyday decolonial planning practices through which Indigenous Peoples navigate and disrupt colonial planning systems in four regions: Aotearoa New Zealand, Hawaiʻi, Canada, and Iximulew/Guatemala. Rather than solving the contradictions of colonial planning, decolonial cracks are the planning practices that sustain Indigenous responsibilities to Land. Through stories of place we demonstrate how Indigenous Peoples educate collaborators, operate across planning scales, and remain versatile under the coloniality of power. By centring everyday praxis, we contribute to planning theory and practice that foregrounds Indigenous futurity and exposes colonial planning as incomplete and contestable.

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