From Shelters to Dwellings /

From Shelters to Dwellings / / Ayham Dalal.

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 t...

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Dalal, Ayham,
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag,, 2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Language:German
English
Series:Re-Figuration von Räumen ; Volume 3
Physical Description:1 online resource (222 pages).
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Table of 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

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