Making Home(s) in Displacement
Critical Reflections on a Spatial Practice
Published on 5. January 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
420 pages
978-94-6270-293-6 (ISBN)
Description
Making Home(s) in Displacement critically rethinks the relationship between home and displacement from a spatial, material, and architectural perspective. Recent scholarship in the social sciences has investigated how migrants and refugees create and reproduce home under new conditions, thereby unpacking the seemingly contradictory positions of making a home and overcoming its loss. Yet, making home(s) in displacement is also a spatial practice, one which intrinsically relates to the fabrication of the built environment worldwide.
Conceptually the book is divided along four spatial sites, referred to as camp, shelter, city, and house, which are approached with a multitude of perspectives ranging from urban planning and architecture to anthropology, geography, philosophy, gender studies, and urban history, all with a common focus on space and spatiality. By articulating everyday homemaking experiences of migrants and refugees as spatial practices in a variety of geopolitical and historical contexts, this edited volume adds a novel perspective to the existing interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of home and displacement. It equally intends to broaden the canon of architectural histories and theories by including migrants' and refugees' spatial agencies and place-making practices to its annals. By highlighting the political in the spatial, and vice versa, this volume sets out to decentralise and decolonise current definitions of home and displacement, striving for a more pluralistic outlook on the idea of home.
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Contributors: Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat (ETH, Zurich), Nurhan Abujidi (Zuyd University of Applied Sciences), Menna Agha (University of Oregon), Esra Akcan (Cornell University), Aikaterini Antonopoulou (University of Liverpool), Luce Beeckmans (Ghent University), Paolo Boccagni (University of Trento), Wafa Butmeh (independent architect / UN-Habitat), Somayeh Chitchian (Harvard University), Bruno de Meulder (KU Leuven), Anna Di Giusto (independent researcher), Maretha Dreyer (Hasselt University), Alessandra Gola (KU Leuven), Hilde Heynen (KU Leuven), Annorada Iyer Siddiqi (Barnard College-Columbia University), Irit Katz (University of Cambridge), Romola Sanyal (LSE), Ashika Singh (KU Leuven), Aleksander Stanicic (TU Delft), Huda Tayob (University of Johannesburg), Layla Zibar (Brandenburg University of Technology / KU Leuven)
Conceptually the book is divided along four spatial sites, referred to as camp, shelter, city, and house, which are approached with a multitude of perspectives ranging from urban planning and architecture to anthropology, geography, philosophy, gender studies, and urban history, all with a common focus on space and spatiality. By articulating everyday homemaking experiences of migrants and refugees as spatial practices in a variety of geopolitical and historical contexts, this edited volume adds a novel perspective to the existing interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of home and displacement. It equally intends to broaden the canon of architectural histories and theories by including migrants' and refugees' spatial agencies and place-making practices to its annals. By highlighting the political in the spatial, and vice versa, this volume sets out to decentralise and decolonise current definitions of home and displacement, striving for a more pluralistic outlook on the idea of home.
Free ebook available at OAPEN Library, JSTOR and Project Muse
Contributors: Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat (ETH, Zurich), Nurhan Abujidi (Zuyd University of Applied Sciences), Menna Agha (University of Oregon), Esra Akcan (Cornell University), Aikaterini Antonopoulou (University of Liverpool), Luce Beeckmans (Ghent University), Paolo Boccagni (University of Trento), Wafa Butmeh (independent architect / UN-Habitat), Somayeh Chitchian (Harvard University), Bruno de Meulder (KU Leuven), Anna Di Giusto (independent researcher), Maretha Dreyer (Hasselt University), Alessandra Gola (KU Leuven), Hilde Heynen (KU Leuven), Annorada Iyer Siddiqi (Barnard College-Columbia University), Irit Katz (University of Cambridge), Romola Sanyal (LSE), Ashika Singh (KU Leuven), Aleksander Stanicic (TU Delft), Huda Tayob (University of Johannesburg), Layla Zibar (Brandenburg University of Technology / KU Leuven)
Reviews / Votes
In sum this book brings together a large variety of material on the making and unmaking of homes in displacement as a spatial practice. Forced displacement is the focus of most chapters of the book, but some deal with a broader set of displaced people. This is an important reminder that there is not necessarily a clear dividing line between the migration of those who seek work and those who seek asylum. Moreover, the book shows the merits of interdisciplinary research. Scholars, activists and architects involved in the (re)thinking of what it means to imagine, design and create 'homes' in contexts of human displacement were brought together. - Ilse van Liempt, **Urban Studies, March 2023 Herbeluister op Klara Pompidou het gesprek met Luce Beeckmans: https://bit.ly/3hlTbdM"Soms gaat het over vrijwillige globetrotters maar in zijn nijpendste vorm gaat ontheemding over mensen op de vlucht voor vervolging, oorlog of klimaatverandering, en over asielzoekers die aankloppen op plekken waar hen niet altijd een warm onthaal wacht. Welke strategieen ontwikkelen deze ontheemde mensen om toch ergens een thuisgevoel te creeren? En wat kunnen overheden en architecten betekenen om de huisvesting te verbeteren en het thuisgevoel te bevorderen van mensen met een andere culturele achtergrond en van mensen die in existentiele nood verkeren?" Met het boek 'Making Home(s) in Displacement, Critical Reflections on a Spatial Practice' belichten onderzoekers van over de hele wereld hoe vluchtelingen een thuis proberen te maken onder steeds weer veranderende omstandigheden. [...] In de essays wordt gepleit voor een positievere en opener houding van landen die vluchtelingen opvangen. De kritische relatie tussen thuis en ontheemding wordt hierbij belicht vanuit een ruimtelijk, materieel en architectonisch perspectief, oftewel de fysieke plek waar vluchtelingen worden gehuisvest en ontvangen. Omdat dit specifieke aspect nog nauwelijks wordt beschreven in de hedendaagse literatuur over vluchtelingen en ontheemding worden onconventionele onderzoeksmethoden niet geschuwd. De auteurs hopen hiermee tevens een lans te breken voor het doen van innovatiever veldonderzoek.Anneloes de Koff, Archined.nl,
3 oktober 2022 This is a beautifully crafted book that brings together, in a constructive and novel manner, multiple spatial perspectives on homemaking in displacement. The structure of the book and the richness of the contributions make for a book I would be happy to recommend to both colleagues and students. By bringing in the material perspectives into the home and displacement literature the authors are helping to close a gap and consolidate an emerging field.
Cathrine Brun, Oxford Brookes University
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Leuven
Belgium
Target group
College/higher education
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Illustrations
Illustrated, full colour
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
663 gr
ISBN-13
978-94-6270-293-6 (9789462702936)
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Persons
Luce Beeckmans is assistant professor of architecture and urbanism in relation to migration and diversity at Ghent University.
Alessandra Gola is an architect and doctoral researcher at KU Leuven as well as the co-founder of The Yalla Project in Nablus, Palestine.
Ashika Singh is doctor in architecture and philosophy at KU Leuven.
Hilde Heynen is professor of architectural theory and history at KU Leuven.
Alessandra Gola is an architect and doctoral researcher at KU Leuven as well as the co-founder of The Yalla Project in Nablus, Palestine.
Ashika Singh is doctor in architecture and philosophy at KU Leuven.
Hilde Heynen is professor of architectural theory and history at KU Leuven.
Content
INTRODUCTION Rethinking the Intersection of Home and Displacement from a Spatial Perspective Luce Beeckmans, Ashika Singh & Alessandra Gola
PART 1 - CAMP
To Shelter in Place for a Time Beyond
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi & Somayeh Chitchian
Towards Dwelling in Spaces of Inhospitality. A Phenomenological Exploration of Home in Nahr Al-Barid Ashika Singh
Who/What Is Doing What? Dwelling and Homing Practices in Syrian Refugee Camps -The Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Layla Zibar, Nurhan Abujidi & Bruno de Meulder
In the Name of Belonging Developing Sheikh Radwan for the Refugees in Gaza City, 1967-1982
Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat
PART 2 - SHELTER
At Home in the Centre? Spatial Appropriation and Horizons of Homemaking in Reception Facilities for Asylum Seekers Paolo Boccagni
Bare Shelter. The Layered Spatial Politics of Inhabiting Displacement
Irit Katz
Refugee Shelters done Differently. Humanist Architecture of Socialist Yugoslavia Aleksandar Stanicic
Years in the Waiting Room. A feminist Ethnography of the Invisible Institutional Living Spaces of Forced Displacement
Maretha Dreyer
PART 3 - CITY
Gendering Displacement. Women Refugees and the Geographies of Dwelling in India Romola Sanyal
Homing Displacements. Socio-Spatial Identities in Contemporary Urban Palestine Alessandra Gola
Mediating between Formality and Informality. Refugee Housing as City-Making Activity in Refugee Crisis Athens Aikaterini Antonopoulou
Making Home in Borgo Mezzanone. Dignity and Mafias in South Italy
Anna Di Giusto
PART 4 - HOUSE
News from the Living Room. Historiography and Immigrant Agency in Urban Housing in Berlin Esra Akcan
The Nubian House. Displacement, Dispossession, and Resilience
Menna Agha
Trans-national Homes. From Nairobi to Cape Town
Huda Tayob
Static Displacement, Adaptive Domesticity. The Three Temporary Geographies of Firing Zone 918, Palestine Wafa Butmeh
CODA About the Displacement of Home
Hilde Heynen
PART 1 - CAMP
To Shelter in Place for a Time Beyond
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi & Somayeh Chitchian
Towards Dwelling in Spaces of Inhospitality. A Phenomenological Exploration of Home in Nahr Al-Barid Ashika Singh
Who/What Is Doing What? Dwelling and Homing Practices in Syrian Refugee Camps -The Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Layla Zibar, Nurhan Abujidi & Bruno de Meulder
In the Name of Belonging Developing Sheikh Radwan for the Refugees in Gaza City, 1967-1982
Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat
PART 2 - SHELTER
At Home in the Centre? Spatial Appropriation and Horizons of Homemaking in Reception Facilities for Asylum Seekers Paolo Boccagni
Bare Shelter. The Layered Spatial Politics of Inhabiting Displacement
Irit Katz
Refugee Shelters done Differently. Humanist Architecture of Socialist Yugoslavia Aleksandar Stanicic
Years in the Waiting Room. A feminist Ethnography of the Invisible Institutional Living Spaces of Forced Displacement
Maretha Dreyer
PART 3 - CITY
Gendering Displacement. Women Refugees and the Geographies of Dwelling in India Romola Sanyal
Homing Displacements. Socio-Spatial Identities in Contemporary Urban Palestine Alessandra Gola
Mediating between Formality and Informality. Refugee Housing as City-Making Activity in Refugee Crisis Athens Aikaterini Antonopoulou
Making Home in Borgo Mezzanone. Dignity and Mafias in South Italy
Anna Di Giusto
PART 4 - HOUSE
News from the Living Room. Historiography and Immigrant Agency in Urban Housing in Berlin Esra Akcan
The Nubian House. Displacement, Dispossession, and Resilience
Menna Agha
Trans-national Homes. From Nairobi to Cape Town
Huda Tayob
Static Displacement, Adaptive Domesticity. The Three Temporary Geographies of Firing Zone 918, Palestine Wafa Butmeh
CODA About the Displacement of Home
Hilde Heynen