From Shelters to Dwellings / Ayham Dalal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dalal, Ayham, author.

Series:

Re-Figuration von Räumen ; Volume 3

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Dwellings--Social aspects.

Dwellings.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 pages).

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2022.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Zaatari camp, Jordan, thousands of Syrian refugees were sheltered in tents and caravans, which they steadily appropriated and turned into dwellings that responded to their social and cultural needs. In this book, Ayham Dalal takes a closer look at this remarkable transformation. He draws on the tension between 'the shelter' and 'the dwelling' to unravel how new spaces unfold in between them, where refugees become architects and the camp is dismantled and reassembled. From Shelters to Dwellings is the first study to uniquely combine ethnographic observations with new architectural research methods, to illustrate in detail how refugees inhabit shelters. It is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding how camps and shelters are transformed by the powerful act of dwelling.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Acronyms

List of Arabic Words

Introduction

Theoretical Overview

Part One: Dismantling

Interlude. Syrians in Jordan and the Construction of Camps

Chapter 1 Zaatari Camp and its Planning

Part Two: Reassembling the Social

Introduction. The Social Ordering of Space

Chapter 2 Visual Privacy

Chapter 3 Family Relations

Chapter 4 Culture, Knowledge, Memory and Identity

Outro. From the Social to the Material

Part Three: Reassembling the Material

Chapter 5 The Caravan

Chapter 6 Tents, Zinco and Cement

Refugees as Architects

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (De Gruyter, viewed November 19, 2022).

ISBN:

9783839458389

3839458382

OCLC:

1338020764