Planning Moment

Sarah Blacker (Edited By) Sarah Blacker is a Sessional Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science at York University, Toronto.Emily Brownell (Edited By) Emily Brownell is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental History at the University of Edinburgh.Anindita Nag (Edited By) Anindita Nag is Associate Professor and the Associate Dean of International Affairs at the Jindal School of Art and Architecture, New Delhi.Martina Schlünder (Edited By) Martina Schlünder is a Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and a visiting associate professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Center for Technology, Innovation, and Culture at the University of Oslo.Helen Verran (Edited By) Helen Verran taught history and philosophy of science at University of Melbourne Australia, for nearly twenty-five years. Since 2012 she has been Research Professor at Charles Darwin University. Verran's book Science and an African Logic (University of Chicago Press, 2001) was awarded the Society for the Social Studies of Science's Ludwik Fleck Prize in 2003.Sarah Van Beurden (Edited By) Sarah Van Beurden is Associate Professor History and African American and African Studies at the Ohio State University.Dagmar Schäfer (Foreword By) Dagmar Schäfer is Director of Department III, "Artifacts, Action, Knowledge," at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

• Forewordby Dagmar Schäfer ixEntanglements of Colonial and Postcolonial Planning:An Introduction 1Census: New Hebrides/Vanuatu, 1967Alexandra Widmer 20Charcoal: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1973Emily Brownell 29COBOL: The Pentagon, United States of America, 1959Benjamin Allen 37Computing: United States of America, 1949Benjamin Peters 46Constitution: India, 1950Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach 56Dam: South Korea, 1961Aaron S. Moore 64Dodecahedral Silo: Spain, 1953Lino Camprubí 76EMES Sonochron: Federal Republic of Germany, 1986Martina Schlünder 84Famine: India, 1877Anindita Nag 96Fertility Survey Workforce: Puerto Rico, 1949Raúl Necochea López 104Fertilizer: South Korea, 1952John DiMoia 113Grid: New York, United States of America, 1972Robert J. Kett 124Hackathon: India, 2012Lilly Irani 133Kishikishi: Belgian Congo, 1956Sarah Van Beurden 144Land Parcel: Lebanon, 1990Mona Fawaz and Nada Moumtaz 152National Budget: Sudan, 1946Alden Young 160Orangutans: Borneo, 1962Juno Salazar Parreñas 168Parasite: Liberia, 1926Gregg Mitman 176Riverbed: South Korea, 2008Chihyung Jeon 186Seeds: German East Africa, 1892Tahani Nadim 195Steel Plant: Orissa State, India, 1955Itty Abraham 204Surnames: Brazil, 1979Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes 212Taxonomer: United States of America, 1923Laura J. Mitchell 220Treasures: Palestine/Israel, 1979Tamar Novick 230Water Samples: Treaty 8 Territory, Canada, 2012Sarah Blacker 235Weeds: Laos, 2006Karen McAllister 245Zoomorphic Wickerwork Figure: Australian Administered British New Guinea, 1908Helen Verran 254The Planning Moment: Avenues for Analysis 265Acknowledgments 275Archival Sources 277Bibliography 279List of Contributors 311Index 315