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Making Home(s) in Displacement critically rethinks the relationship between home and displacement from a spatial, material, and architectural perspective.

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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.

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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.

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Alessandra Gola is an architect and doctoral researcher at KU Leuven as well as the co-founder of The Yalla Project in Nablus, Palestine. Ashika Singh is doctor in architecture and philosophy at KU Leuven. Hilde Heynen is professor of architectural theory and history at KU Leuven. Luce Beeckmans is assistant professor of architecture and urbanism in relation to migration and diversity at Ghent University.

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INTRODUCTION Rethinking the Intersection of Home and Displacement from a Spatial Perspective Luce Beeckmans, Ashika Singh & Alessandra Gola PART 1 – CAMP To Shelter in Place for a Time Beyond Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi & 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 Layla Zibar, Nurhan Abujidi & 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

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