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Decolonizing Urban Planning Research in Global South: A Call for Shifting the Gaze

Year: 2025

Type: editorial

Abstract: Given that urban planning has served colonial and imperialist purposes, this commentary explores the existing challenges for early-career researchers conducting research designed in the Global North and carried out in/on the Global South. We offer a series of questions and provocations as an invitation to colleagues facing similar dilemmas to reflect on their own research from a decolonial methodological critique (theory, practice, and politics). We aim to broaden the questions that should be asked when choosing to study marginalized communities, with the hope that these reflections can shift the gaze and move research toward more just and rewarding practices.

Source: Journal of Planning Education and Research

DOI: 10.1177/0739456x251325150

Authors: Luana Xavier Pinto Coelho, Lorena Melgaço, Tara Saharan, Lakshmi Priya Rajendran

Institutions: University of Coimbra, Lund University, Radboud University Nijmegen, University College London

Language: English

Topic: Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies

Subfield: Anthropology

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,900