Indigenous Planning: Cracking Coloniality Through Everyday Practices

This article explores decolonial cracks as the everyday decolonial planning practices through which Indigenous Peoples navigate and disrupt colonial planning systems in four regions: Aotearoa New Zealand, Hawaiʻi, Canada, and Iximulew/Guatemala. Rather than solving the contradictions of colonial planning, decolonial cracks are the planning practices that sustain Indigenous responsibilities to Land. Through stories of place we demonstrate how Indigenous Peoples educate collaborators, operate across planning scales, and remain versatile under the coloniality of power. By centring everyday praxis, we contribute to planning theory and practice that foregrounds Indigenous futurity and exposes colonial planning as incomplete and contestable.