A Blues Epistemology for Climate Futures

This chapter builds on previous theorization that explores the potential for a reparative planning framework as a means to demarcate a future for planning that is founded on repair and reconciliation processes. This chapter frames planning’s long complicity in colonial racial capitalism, as the basis from which to transform embedded and harmful legacies in the built and socio-spatial world we live in. Emphasis is on methodologically employing both decolonial frameworks as well as tenets coming out of the Black radical tradition, specifically “blues epistemology.” The chapter will provide an experimental reparative planning template for students and practitioners of planning to debate and consider.