ISBN:
9781478025245
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9781478020387
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 412 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
Theory in forms
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Siddiqi, Anooradha Iyer Architecture of migration
Keywords:
Dadaab Refugee Camp
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Architecture and society
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Refugee camps
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Refugee camps History
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Refugee camps Design and construction
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Architecture Political aspects
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Refugees Housing
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History
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Dwellings History
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HISTORY / Africa / East
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ARCHITECTURE / History / General
Abstract:
"Environments associated with migration are often seen as provisional, lacking history or architecture. As Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi demonstrates in Architecture of Migration, a refugee camp's aesthetic and material landscapes-even if born out of emergency-reveal histories, futures, politics, and rhetorics. She identifies forces of colonial and humanitarian settlement, tracing spatial and racial politics in the Dadaab refugee camps established in 1991 on the Kenya-Somalia border-at once a dense setting that manifests decades of architectural, planning, and design initiatives and a much older constructed environment that reflects its own ways of knowing. She moves beyond ahistorical representations of camps and their inhabitants by constructing a material and visual archive of Dadaab, finding long migratory traditions in the architecture, spatial practices, landscapes, and iconography of refugees and humanitarians. Countering conceptualizations of refugee camps as sites of border transgression, criminality, and placelessness, Siddiqi instead theorizes them as complex settlements, ecologies, and material archives created through histories of partitions, sedentarizations, domesticities, and migrations"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Architecture and History in a Refugee Camp -- From Partitions -- Land, Emergency, and Sedentarization in East Africa -- Shelter and Domesticity -- An Archive of Humanitarian Settlement -- Design as Infrastructure -- "Poetry is a weapon that we use in both war and peace".
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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