Spatialities of Displacement in Times of Climate Change
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From the US-Mexico border to coastal Colombia, from Nigeria to Bangladesh, scholarship on displacement and climate has grown in recent years, reframing climate change not as the sole driver of migration but as part of a complex matrix of economic, social, and political forces. Against this backdrop, this book addresses the climate-space-displacement nexus by foregrounding spatial imaginaries that inspire hopeful futures. Bringing together interdisciplinary contributions from geography, planning, anthropology, sociology, and architecture, it explores resistant and emerging spatialities of displacement. Structured around three sections-Shifting Grounds, Erratic Waters, and Lines of Flight-the volume offers transversal lenses across contexts, concluding with a visual analytical synthesis that invites reflection on expanded possibilities of climate-related displacement spatialities.
With contributions by Silke Steets, Ignacio Farías, Efadul Hug, Faranak Miraftab, Hannan Sender, Hanna Baumann, Joana Dabaj, Irina Rafiliana, Lou Elena Bouey, Irit Katz, Ali Yahya, Florian Bonnefoi, Mennatallah Hamdy, Ayham Dalal, Enrique Coraza de los Santos, Catalina Espinosa, Omar Galán, Maren Larsen, Austin Zeiderman, Mari Paz Agúndez, Ana Claudia Cardoso, Cacique Carlos Tukano, Francesca Ceola, Qusay Amer and Juliana Canedo.
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Qusay Amer is an architect and PhD candidate at CRC 1265 and Habitat Unit. His research interests sit at the intersection of the production of physical spaces for and by migrants, refugees' urban agency, and translocal structures of (urban) spatial governance.
Juliana Canedo is an architect, urbanist, and senior lecturer and researcher at Habitat Unit. Her research focuses on collaborative design with communities in self-built spaces. Conceptually, she works with notions of insurgent urbanism and the right to the city.
Francesca Ceola is a geographer and PhD candidate at CRC 1265 and Habitat Unit. Her research practice interweaves forced displacement studies, counter-cartographies, socio-political ecologies in cities, and shifting landscapes.
Philipp Misselwitz is an architect and urban planner working in international development. He is Full Professor and Chair of Habitat Unit. He acts as Principal Investigator in the research project "Architectures of Asylum" (SFB 1265) and is Executive Director of Bauhaus Earth.