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S04E01 - Yousaf Nishat-Botero on Ecologies of Planning and Metabolic Municipalism
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Yousaf Nishat-Botero on the Ecologies of Planning and Metabolic Municipalism.
Shownotes Yousaf Nishat-Botero
Dr. Yousaf Nishat-Botero at the University of Birmingham:
https://research.birmingham.ac.uk/en/persons/yousaf-nishat-botero/
Nishat-Botero, Y. (2023). Planning’s ecologies: Democratic planning in the age of planetary crises. Organization. Special Issue: Public Value, 1-23.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13505084231186749
Nishat-Botero, Y. & Thompson, M. (2025). Planning in Nature’s Metropolis: Metabolic Municipalism and Ecological Planning in Barcelona. Environment and Planning D.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02637758251364061
Nishat-Botero, Y. & Thompson, M. The land question and postcapitalist countrysides: towards a town-country synthesis. In Postcapitalist Countrysides (N. Gallent, M.Gkartzios, M. Scott, A. Purves (Eds.). UCL Press.
on ‘metabolism’ in Liebig and Marx:
Clark, B. & Foster, J. B. (2018). The Robbery of Nature: Capitalism and the Metabolic Rift. Monthly Review 70(3).
https://monthlyreview.org/articles/the-robbery-of-nature/
Marx, K. ([1867] 2004). Capital: Volume I. Penguin U
Sorg, C. (2023). Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail: Toward an Expanded Notion of Democratically Planned Postcapitalism. Critical Sociology 49(3), 475-493.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08969205221081058
Salleh, A. (2010). From Metabolic Rift to “Metabolic Value”: Reflections on Environmental Sociology and the Alternative Globalization Movement. Organization & Environment 23(2), 205-219.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27068655
on ‘capitalism as socioecological totality’:
Fraser, N. (2022). Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and what we can do about it. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2685-cannibal-capitalism
Moore, J. (2015). Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/74-capitalism-in-the-web-of-life
Planning for Entropy. (2022). Democratic Economic Planning, Social Metabolism and the Environment. Science and Society Journal. Vol 82, Nr 2. New York: Guilford Publications
https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/siso.2022.86.2.291
Latour, B. & Weibel, P. (2020). Critical Zones. The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth. MIT Press.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262044455/critical-zones/
on the Oskar-Lange-Model:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lange_model
Barca, S. (2021) Forces of Reproduction: Notes for a Counter-hegemonic Anthropocene. Elements in Environmental Humanities. Cambridge University Press.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/forces-of-reproduction/BE9B0DBDC89593F3284FE3F51D3B0418
on Donna Harraway’s ‘response-ability’:
Harraway, D. (2016). Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press.
https://www.dukeupress.edu/staying-with-the-trouble
Braudel, F. (1979 [1992]). Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol I-III. University of California Press.
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/civilization-and-capitalism-15th-18th-century-vol-i/paper
Nunes, R. (2021). Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization. Verso.
on Otto Neurath’s political economy:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/neurath/political-economy.html
on the quote by Otto Neurath:
Otto Neurath in O'Neill, J. (2003) ‘Socialism, Associations and the Market’, Economy and Society 32(2): 184–206
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249006144_Socialism_associations_and_the_market
on Friedrich Hayek’s argument against centralized planning:
Hayek, F. A. (1945). The Use of Knowledge in Society. The American Economic Review 35(4), 519-530.
https://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw.html
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/hayek-opposes-centralized-economic-planning
Morozov, E. (2019). Digital Socialism? New Left Review 116/117.
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialism
Rochowicz, N. (2025). Planning progress: Incorporating innovation and structural change into models of economic planning. Competition & Change, 29(1), 64-82.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10245294231220690?
Jameson, F. (1991). Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Duke University Press.
https://web.education.wisc.edu/halverson/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/2012/12/jameson.pdf
Toscano, A. & Kinkle, J. (2015). Cartographies of the Absolute. Zero Books.
https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/cartographies-of-the-absolute
Anderson, P. (1961). Sweden: Mr. Crosland’s Dreamland. New Left Review 1/7.
https://newleftreview.org/issues/i7/articles/perry-anderson-sweden-mr-crosland-s-dreamland-part-1
Mandel, E. (1986). In Defence of Socialist Planning. New Left Review 1/159. https://newleftreview.org/issues/i159/articles/ernest-mandel-in-defence-of-socialist-planning
Thompson, M., & Nishat-Botero, Y. (2025). Postcapitalist Planning and Urban Revolution. Competition & Change, 29(1), 101-120.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10245294231210980
Durand, C., Hofferberth, E. & Schmelzer, M. (2023). Planning beyond growth. The case for economic democracy within limits. Political Economy Working Papers. University of Geneva.
https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:166429
on Barcelona En Comú:
on Grupo AGBAR and the anti-privatisation movement:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo_Agbar
https://ejatlas.org/conflict/remunicipalisation-and-anti-privatization-movement-in-barcelona1
on the Socialist party of Catalonia:
on the airport expansion in Barcelona:
https://ejatlas.org/conflict/prat-airport-expansion-catalonia-spain
on the paper by Union Populaire:
https://programme.lafranceinsoumise.fr/livrets/planification-ecologique/
on the quote from Mike Davis:
Davis, M. (1990). City of Quartz. Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. Verso.
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https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e59-cedric-durand-on-ecological-planning/
S03E50 Aaron Benanav - Beyond Capitalism II
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e51-aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-ii/
S03E49 Aaron Benanav - Beyond Capitalism I
https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e50-aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-i/
S03E21 | Christoph Sorg zu Finanzwirtschaft als Planung
S03E03 | Planning for Entropy on Sociometabolic Planning
S02E44 | Evgeny Morozov on Discovery Beyond Competition
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If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:
Democratic planning – an information website:
https://www.democratic-planning.com/
Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk]
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction
International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
Democratic Planning Research Platform:
https://www.planningresearch.net/
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