Making Home(s) in Displacement
Critical Reflections on a Spatial Practice
Hilde Heynen editor Luce Beeckmans editor Alessandra Gola editor Ashika Singh editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Leuven University Press
Published:5th Jan '22
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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. 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)
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
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
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 strategieën ontwikkelen deze ontheemde mensen om toch ergens een thuisgevoel te creëren? 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 existentiële nood verkeren?"
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
ISBN: 9789462702936
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 660g
420 pages