Trading zone is a concept introduced by Peter Galison in his social scientific research on how scientists representing different sub-cultures and paradigms have been able to coordinate their interaction locally. In this book; Italian and Finnish planning researchers extend the use of the concept to different contexts of urban planning and management; where there is a need for new ideas and tools in managing the interaction of different stakeholders. The trading zone concept is approached as a tool in organizing local platforms and support systems for planning participation; knowledge production; decision making and local conflict management. In relation to the former theses of communicative planning theory that stress the ideals of consensus; mutual understanding and universal reason; the trading zone approach; outlined in this book; offers a different perspective. It focuses on the potentiality to coordinate locally the interaction of different stakeholders without requiring the deeper sharing of understandings; values and motives between them. Galisonrsquo;s commentary comes in the form of the bookrsquo;s final chapter.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Ryan MorrisonThanks!8 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Fantastic; Enlightening WorkBy feministfilmscholarIts been a while since I read this book (in Fall 2002); but I remember being highly surprised with what it taught about how the contemporary; taken-for-granted ideological practices of cleanliness (daily bathing; soap; house cleaning); etc.; came into being during the time period discussed; and how class and race (racism) functioned -- more blatantly then -- to promote certain practices and consumer products to the point that they now are often assumed to be "universal" and go unquestioned in terms of their historical development. Additionally -- and not mentioned in the reviews -- is the discussion of resulting fetishizations; particularly in the accounts of certain historical persons. Its a fascinating read; and includes hard visual evidence of the racist advertising that promoted certain practices and products that have continued from the colonial past to today.7 of 8 people found the following review helpful. supberb!By TaimurIt was one of those books that you want to own and make a part of your library. It talks about the intersection of race; gender; sexualitiy and class in colonies and metropoloes. unlike some of the other books on colonialism; this book analyzes the various discourses that served the purpose of power but without reifying race. It makes you see the exploitation of colonized and their exercising of agency in an extremely unequal relation. it throws light on the gender dynamics in this power play that had been ignored for a long time.