Drifting : architecture and migrancy / edited by Stephen Cairns.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cairns, Stephen.

Series:

Architext series

The Architext series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and society.

Emigration and immigration.

Multiculturalism.

Physical Description:

xii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Summary:

modes of dwelling that are emerging precisely from within the ruins of the idea of place. This exploration is informed by post-structuralist analyses of architecture and urbanism, and their representation in media such as film. It focuses on the Pacific Rim as an intensified zone of global flows. Within the Pacific Rim there are complex tensions between the new economies of Asia and the settler nations of Canada, the US, Australia and New Zealand. These tensions produce difficulties for the narrative of the nation state, and herald conditions that no longer conform to the geo-political norms of the old world.

Contents:

1 Drifting: Architecture/Migrancy / Stephen Cairns 17

2 On Cosmopolitanism / Jacques Derrida 48

3 Architecture as Evidence / Catherine Ingraham 61

4 Mythforms: Techniques of Migrant Place-Making / Paul Carter 82

5 Why Architecture Is Neither Here Nor There / Mark Rakatansky 99

6 Migration, Exile and Landscapes of the Imagination / Andrew Dawson, Mark Johnson 116

7 Building Hong Kong: From Migrancy to Disappearance / Ackbar Abbas 129

8 Conflicting Landscapes of Dwelling and Democracy in Canada / Katharyne Mitchell 142

9 Too Many Houses for a Home: Narrating the House in the Chinese Diaspora / Jane M. Jacobs 164

10 Emigration/Immigration: Maps, Myths and Origins / Mirjana Lozanovska 184

11 Earthquake Weather / Sarah Treadwell 203

12 Pacific Island Migration / Mike Austin 224

13 La Frontera's Siamese Twins / Mike Davis 239

14 Screening Los Angeles: Architecture, Migrancy and Mobility / Brian Morris 252

15 By the Bitstream of Babylon: Cyberfrontiers and Diasporic Vistas / Ella Shohat 271.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415283604

0415283612

OCLC:

52418228