Architecture of Migration : The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement / Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Siddiqi, Anooradha Iyer, Author.

, Columbia University, Author.

Contributor:

Columbia University, Funder.

Series:

Theory in Forms : 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and society--Kenya--Dadaab.

Architecture and society.

Architecture--Political aspects--Kenya--Dadaab.

Architecture.

Dwellings--Kenya--Dadaab--History.

Dwellings.

Refugee camps--Kenya--Dadaab.

Refugee camps.

Refugee camps--Kenya--Dadaab--Design and construction.

Refugee camps--Kenya--Dadaab--History.

Refugees--Housing--Kenya--Dadaab--History.

Refugees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (430 p.)

Place of Publication:

2023.

Durham : Duke University Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi is Assistant Professor of Architecture at Barnard College, Columbia University, and coeditor of Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration and Spatial Violence.

Summary:

Environments associated with migration are often seen as provisional, lacking both history and architecture. As Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi demonstrates in Architecture of Migration, a refugee camp’s aesthetic and material landscapes—even if born out of emergency—reveal histories, futures, politics, and rhetorics. She identifies forces of colonial and humanitarian settlement, tracing spatial and racial politics in the Dadaab refugee camps established in 1991 on the Kenya-Somalia border—at once a dense setting that manifests decades of architectural, planning, and design initiatives and a much older constructed environment that reflects its own ways of knowing. She moves beyond ahistorical representations of camps and their inhabitants by constructing a material and visual archive of Dadaab, finding long migratory traditions in the architecture, spatial practices, landscapes, and iconography of refugees and humanitarians. Countering conceptualizations of refugee camps as sites of border transgression, criminality, and placelessness, Siddiqi instead theorizes them as complex settlements, ecologies, and material archives created through histories of partition, sedentarization, domesticity, and migration.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Abbreviations

Author’s Note

Introduction: architecture and history in a refugee camp

1 From Partitions

2 Land, Emergency, 2 and Sedentarization in East Africa

3 Shelter and Domesticity

4 An Archive of Humanitarian Settlement

5 Design as Infrastructure

Afterword “ poetry is a weapon that we use in both war and peace”

Acknowledgments

Notes

Primary Sources

References

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

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OCLC:

1397020335