The 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 Schluender (Edited By) Martina Schluender 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 Schaefer (Foreword By) Dagmar Schaefer is Director of Department III, "Artifacts, Action, Knowledge," at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

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

The Planning Moment provides a much-needed revision to the notion of a homogenous modernity and to top-down accounts of state planning. In recognizing the contested and often multiple futures that emerged from the disjuncture between plan and action, the book charts fresh directions past impasses that mark contemporary technophilia and technophobia.---Orit Halpern, author of The Smartness Mandate This deeply interdisciplinary and transregional book emerges from anthropology, history, Science and Technology Studies, museum studies, and sociology, with essays spanning every continent. While each essay tells a highly localized story, together they help us reimagine imperial designs, postcolonial responses, and Cold War exigencies.---Jini Kim Watson, author of Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization