Making home(s) in displacement : : critical reflections on a spatial practice / / edited by Luce Beeckmans, Alessandra Gola, Ashika Singh, and Hilde Heynen.

• HerausgeberIn: Beeckmans, Luce; Gola, Alessandra; Singh, Ashika; Heynen, Hilde
• Place / Publishing House: Leuven : : Leuven University Press,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Preface -- Introduction : rethinking the intersection of home and displacement from a spatial perspective / Luce Beeckmans, Ashika Singh, and Alessandra Gola -- Part 1. Camp ; To shelter in place for a time beyond / Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi and Somayeh Chitchian -- Towards dwelling in spaces of inhospitality : a phenomenological exploration of home in Nahr Al-Barid / Ashika Singh -- Who/what is doing what? : dwelling and homing practices in Syrian refugee camps, the Kurdistan region of Iraq / Lalya Zibar, Nurhan Abujidi, and Bruno de Meulder -- In the name of belonging : developing Sheikh Radwan for the refugees in Gaza City, 1967-1982 / Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat -- Part 2. Shelter ; At home in the centre? : spatial appropriation and horizons of homemaking in reception facilities for asylum seekers / Paolo Boccagni -- Bare shelter : the layered spatial politics of inhabiting displacement / Irit Katz -- Refugee shelters done differently : humanist architecture of socialist Yugoslavia / Aleksandar Staničić -- Years in the waiting room : a feminist ethnography of the invisible institutional living spaces of forced displacement / Maretha Dreyer -- Part 3. City ; Gendering displacement : women refugees and the geographies of dwelling in India / Romola Sanyal -- Homing displacements : socio-spatial identities in contemporary urban Palestine / Alessandra Gola -- Mediating between formality and informality : refugee housing as city-making activity in refugee crisis Athens / Aikaterini Antonopoulou -- Making home in Borgo Mezzanone : dignity and mafias in south Italy / Anna Di Giusto -- Part 4. House ; News from the living room : historiography and immigrant agency in urban housing in Berlin / Esra Akcan -- The Nubian house : displacement, dispossession, and resilience / Menna Agha -- Trans-national homes : from Nairobi to Cape Town / Huda Tayob -- Static displacement, adaptive domesticity : the three temporary geographies of firing zone 918, Palestine / Wafa Butmeh -- Coda : about the displacement of home / Hilde Heynen.