An Australian reimagining of the Aesop fable of the fox, the flies and the hedgehog introduces critical exploration of spatial planning-related imaginaries whereby practices of settler colonialism and urban expansion have caused disruption and destruction of hundreds of thousands of human and other-than-human lives. The argument is grounded in Serres’ concept of the parasite, questioning what type of parasitic relationship spatial planning has with its more-than-human context. Resetting the coordinates of planning practice through a relational transversal approach is proposed. Transversality is a vehicle of rupture and convergence constituted through events and alliances as temporary resting places in which the agential capacities of humans and other-than-humans are temporarily suspended, so that their relations can be reassembled in a form of inclusive disjunctive synthesis, sensitive to the place and issues involved.
AbsolonK (2019) Indigenous wholistic theory: a knowledge set for practice. First Peoples Child & Family Review5.2, 74-87.
2.
AustinJ.L (2019) A parasitic critique for international relations. International Political Sociology13, 215-231.
3.
BaldwinJ (1964) The fire next time. Penguin, Harmondsworth.
4.
BarryJAgyemanJ (2020) On belonging and becoming in the settler-colonial city: co-produced futurities, placemaking and urban planning in the United States. Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City1.1/2, 22-41.
5.
Bawaka Country (2020) Gathering of the clouds: attending to Indigenous understandings of time and climate through songspirals. Geoforum108, 295-304.
6.
BrownS (2002) Michel Serres: science, translation and the logic of the parasite. Theory, Culture and Society19.3, 1-27.
7.
BurtonJTamD (2016) Towards a parasitic ethics. Theory, Culture and Society33.4, 103-125.
8.
ChatterjeeP (2023) The inheritance and repetition of colonial practices of dispossession. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space41.5, 805-825.
9.
Department of Education Western Australia (DOE) (2022) Ngaparrtji Ngaparrtji two-way. DOE, Perth.
10.
DewsburyJ-D (2000) Performativity and the event: enacting a philosophy of difference. Environment and Planning D, Society and Space18.4, 473-496.
11.
DorriesH (2022) What is planning without property? Relational practices of being and belonging. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space40.2, 306-318.
12.
DorriesHHarjoL (2020) Beyond Safety: Refusing Colonial Violence Through Indigenous Feminist PlanningJournal of Planning Education and Research,40.2, 210-219.
13.
EngleAAgyemanJChung-Tiam-FookT (eds.) (2022) Sacred civics: building seven generation cities. Routledge, New York.
14.
GandyM (2022) The zoonotic city: urban political ecology and the pandemic imaginary. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research46.2, 202-219.
15.
GasparinMBrownSGreenW,et al. (2020) The business school in the Anthropocene: parasitic logic and pataphysical reasoning for a working Earth. Academy of Management Learning and Education19.3, 385-405.
16.
GenoskoG (2002) Félix Guattari: an aberrant introduction. Continuum, New York.
GrangeK (2023) What’s the future for planning in a time of democratic retreat, white supremacy and silence. European Planning Studies31, 2291-2296. DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2023.2220383.
19.
GrosfoguelR (2019) Epistemic extractivism. In de Sousa SantosB.MenesesM. (eds.) Knowledges born in the struggle: constructing the epistemologies of the global south, Routledge, Abingdon.
20.
GuattariF (1974) Psychoanalyse et transversalité [Psychoanalysis and transversality]. Maspero, Paris.
21.
GuattariF (1977 [1984]) Transversality. In GuattariF., Molecular revolution: psychiatry and politics. Translated by R. Sheed, Harmondsworth, Penguin.
22.
GuattariF (1989 [2000]) The three ecologies. Translated by PindarI.SuttonP., Athlone Press, London.
23.
GuattariF (2011) On contemporary art: interview with Olivier Zahm, April 1992. In AlliezÉ.GoffeyA. (eds.), The Guattari effect, Continuum, London.
24.
HarcourtW (2021) Rethinking life in common in the Australian landscape. Environment and Planning E, Nature and Space4.4, 1330-1345.
25.
HarjoL (2019) Spiral to the stars: Mvskoke tools of futurity. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ.
26.
HarneySMotenF (2013) The undercommons: fugitive planning and Black study. Minor Compositions, New York.
HillierJ (2017) No place to go? Management of non-human animal overflows in Australia. European Management Journal35, 712-721.
29.
JohnsonDEParsonsMFisherK (2022) Indigenous climate adaptation: new directions for emerging scholarship, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space5.3, 1541-1578.
30.
JohnsonJBrewerJNelsonM, et al. (2023) Indigenous research sovereignties: sparking the deeper conversations we need. Environment and Planning F2.1-2, 3-10.
31.
JohnstonMForrestS (2020) Working two way: stories of cross-cultural collaboration from Noongar Country. Springer, Singapore.
32.
KanngieserA (2012) … And … and … and: the transversal politics of performative encounters. Deleuze Studies6.2, 265-290.
33.
KennedyJPercyAThomasL, et al. (2021) Holding space for an Aboriginal approach towards curriculum reconciliation in an Australian university. Teaching in Higher Education26.7-8, 1060-1076.
34.
KennedyJThomasLPercyA, et al. (2019) An Aboriginal way towards curriculum reconciliation. International Journal for Academic Development24.2, 148-162.
35.
ManningE (2016) The minor gesture. Duke University Press, Durham, NC.
36.
MillionD (2014) There is a river in me: theory from life. In SimpsonA.SmithA. (eds.), Theorizing native studies, Duke University Press, Durham, NC.
37.
Moreton-RobinsonA (2015) The white possessive: property, power and Indigenous sovereignty. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN.
PorterL (2018) From an urban country to urban Country: confronting the cult of denial in Australian cities, Australian Geographer49:2, 239-246.
40.
ReidAEckertLLaneJ-F, et al. (2020) Two-eyed seeing: an Indigenous framework to transform fisheries research and management, Fish and Fisheries22, 243-261.
41.
ResnikD (2001) Objectivity of research: ethical aspects. In SmelserN.BaltesP. (eds.), International encyclopaedia of the social and behavioural sciences. Pergamon, Oxford.
42.
RevillG (2021) Voicing the environment: Latour, Peirce and an expanded politics. Environment and Planning D, Society and Space39.1, 121-138.
43.
ReyJA (2019) Dharug custodial leadership: uncovering Country in the city. WINHEC Journal1, 56-66.
44.
ReyJA (2023) Weaving ‘lifeworkings’: goanna walking between humanism and posthumanism, Dharug women’s way. In HedigerR. (ed.), Planet work. Bucknell Press, Lewisburg, PA.
45.
RoseDB (2013) Slowly∼ writing into the Anthropocene. TEXT17(Special 20), 1-14.
46.
RoyA (2021) Planning on stolen land. Planning Theory and Practice22.1, 116-121.
47.
SandercockL (2023) Mapping possibility: finding purpose and hope in community planning. Routledge, New York.
48.
SchroederDChatfieldKSinghM, et al. (2019) Equitable research partnerships. Springer, Cham.
SerresM (1982 [1995b]) Genesis. Translated by JamesG.NielsonJ., University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI.
52.
SerresM (1985 [2008]) The five senses: a philosophy of mingled bodies. Translated by SankeyM.CowleyP., Bloomsbury Press, London.
53.
SerresM (1992 [1995a]) The natural contract. Translated by E. MacArthur and W. Paulson, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI.
54.
SerresM (2009) Écrivains, savants et philosophes font le tour du monde [Writers, scholars, philosophers travel the world]. Éditions le Pommier, Paris.
55.
SmithCDiverSReedD (2023) Advancing Indigenous futures with two-eyed seeing: strategies for restoration and repair through collaborative research, Environment and Planning F2.1–2, 121–143.
56.
SmithLT (2021) Decolonizing methodologies: research and indigenous peoples, 3rd edition. Bloomsbury, London.
57.
SnowK (2018) What does being a settler ally in research mean? A graduate students experience learning from and working within Indigenous research paradigms, International Journal of Qualitative Methods17, 1-11.
58.
TynanL (2021) What is relationality? Indigenous knowledges, practices and responsibilities with kin. cultural geographies28.4, 597-610.
59.
TuckEYangKW (2012) Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society, 1.1, 1-40.
60.
VasudevanRNovoaM (2022) Pluriversal planning scholarship: embracing multiplicity and situated knowledges in community-based approaches, Planning Theory, 21.1, 77-100.
61.
WalkerRJojolaTNatcherD (eds.) (2013) Reclaiming Indigenous planning. McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal.
62.
WatkinC (2020) Michel Serres: figures of thought. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
63.
WooltortonSCollardLHorwitzP (2019) Living water: groundwater and wetlands in Gnangara, Noongar boodjar. PAN: Philosophy, Activism, Nature14, 5-23.
64.
WooltortonSWhitePPalmerM, et al. (2021) Learning cycles: enriching ways of knowing place. Australian Journal of Environmental Education37.1, 1-18.
