Biography
Sara Westin is a Researcher in Human Geography at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University, Sweden.
As the gifted geographer she is, Sara Westin knows where power is hiding its secrets and revealing its truths: in the gap between good intentions and the world as it is. Set on understanding what is happening in this no-mans land she puts the planning profession on the couch, the tragic structure of thought-and-action laid bare in the process. Quite an achievement, Nietzsche and Freud nodding their heads in recognition.
Gunnar Olsson, Uppsala University, Sweden
Throughout the book Westin continually confronts inconvenient truths in the application of Freudian reason. As an articulation of therapeutic thought, this book is an account of Sara's attempt to seek out a (repressed) truth. Whether interested in psychoanalytical readings of the urban or not, this is a book that should be read by todays doctoral students. It is a lesson on what scholarship can look like Environment and Planning
Society and Space
