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Beschreibung
Focusing on the Dadaab refugee camps established in 1991 on the Kenya-Somalia border, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi shows how a refugee camp’s aesthetic and material landscapes—even if born out of emergency—reveal histories, futures, politics, and rhetorics.
Focusing on the Dadaab refugee camps established in 1991 on the Kenya-Somalia border, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi shows how a refugee camp’s aesthetic and material landscapes—even if born out of emergency—reveal histories, futures, politics, and rhetorics.
Über den Autor
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi is Assistant Professor of Architecture at Barnard College, Columbia University, and coeditor of Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration and Spatial Violence.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Abbreviations xiii
Author’s Note xv
Introduction. Architecture and History in a Refugee Camp 1
1. From Partitions 51
2. Land, Emergency, and Sedentarization in East Africa 99
3. Shelter and Domesticity 141
4. An Archive of Humanitarian Settlement 181
5. Design as Infrastructure 249
Afterword. “Poetry Is a Weapon That We Use in Both War and Peace” 305
Acknowledgments 321
Notes 329
Primary Sources 363
References 371
Index 397
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781478025245
ISBN-10: 1478025247
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Siddiqi, Anooradha Iyer
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 225 x 151 x 31 mm
Von/Mit: Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.2023
Gewicht: 0,814 kg
Artikel-ID: 126795376