Title & Author:

Architecture on the borderline : boundary politics and built space / edited by Anoma Pieris.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Description:

xv, 287 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 26 cm.

Series:

The architext series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Eurasia's historical space of palimpsest-desert, border, riparian and steppe / Manu P. Sobti -- Intersecting sovereignties : border camps and border villages in wartime North America / Anoma Pieris -- Data displacements : transmitting digital media and the architecture of detention / Sean Anderson and Jennifer Ferng -- Archipelagos and enclaves : on the border between Jordan and Palestine-Israel / Alessandro Petti -- The wall against borders : contesting Fortress Europe / Mirjana Ristic -- En route : the networked mobile border migrant camps of northern France / Irit Katz -- Mapping the war : everyday survival during the siege of Sarajevo / Dijana Alić -- Filling in the gaps : walls without limits and sovereignty with exceptions / Miguel Díaz-Barriga and Margaret Dorsey -- Confronting Koreas and the DMZ / Ross King -- The remembered village between Europe and Asia-Minor : Nea Magnisia at Bonegilla / Anoma Pieris -- Postcolonial urbanisms and the cultural politics of redeveloping Kowloon East, Hong King / Daniel P. S. Goh -- Pushing boundaries : heritage resilience of minority communities in post-war Sri Lanka / Melathi Saldin -- Where do we draw a line? Heritage, identity and place in global heritage / Natsuko Akagawa.

Summary:

Architecture on the Borderline interrogates space and territory in a turbulent present where nation-state borders are porous to a few but impermeable to many. It asks how these uneven and conflicted social realities are embodied in the physical and material conditions imagined, produced or experienced through architecture and urbanism. Drawing on historical, global examples, this rich collection of essays illustrates how empires, nations and cities expand their frontiers and contest boundaries, but equally how borderline identities of people and places influence or expose these processes. Empirical chapters covering Central Asia, the Asia Pacific region, the American continent, Europe and the Middle East offer multiple critical insights into the ways in which our spatial imagination is contingent on `border-thinking'; on the ways of being and navigating frontiers, boundaries and margins, the three themes used to organise their content. The underlying premise of the book is that sensitisation to border conditions can alter our understanding of the static physical spaces that service political or cultural ideologies, and that the view from the periphery opens up new ways of understanding sovereignty. In exploring these various spaces and their transformative subjectivities, this book also reveals the unrelenting precarity of contesting and living on the margins, and related spaces and discourses that are neglected or suppressed.

ISBN:

9781138102811 hardcover alkaline paper
1138102814 hardcover alkaline paper
9781138102828 paperback alkaline paper
1138102822 paperback alkaline paper
electronic book
9781315103419
electronic publication
9781351594998
electronic book
9781351595001
Mobipocket electronic book
9781351594981

Subject:

Architecture and society.
Architecture Political aspects.
Borderlands Social aspects.
Architecture et société.
Architecture Aspect politique.
Régions frontalières Aspect social.

Added entries:

Pieris, Anoma, editor.
Pieris, Anoma editor.
Architext series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306413
Call No.: BIB 251998
Status: Available