Title & Author:

Deserts are not empty / editor, Samia Henni ; contributors, Saphiya Abu Al-Maati, Menna Agha, Asaiel Al Saeed, Aseel AlYaqoub, Yousef Awaad Hussein, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Danika Cooper, Brahim El Guabli, Timothy Hyde, Jill Jarvis, Bongani Kona, Dalal Musaed Alsayer, Observatoire des armements, Francisco E. Robles, Paulo Tavares, Alla Vronskaya, and XqSu.

Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, an imprint of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University, [2022]
©2022

Description:

367 pages, 17 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color), portraits (some color) ; 21 cm.

Series:

Columbia books on architecture and the city

Notes:
Statement of responsibility from back flap of printed paper wrapper.
Includes bibliographical references.
Against the regime of "emptiness" / Samia Henni -- A conversation with Brahim El Guabli, Jill Jarvis, and Francisco E. Robles / Desert Futures Collective -- It is not a desert where grandmother sits / Menna Agha -- Drawing deserts, making worlds / Danika Cooper -- Imperial desert effect - Palestine is there, where it had always been / Ariella Aïsha Azoulay -- Space wars : an investigation into Kuwait's hinterland ; a conversation with Saphiya Abu Al-Maati, Asaiel Al Saeed, Aseel Alyaqoub, and Yousef Awaad Hussein -- The colonial-modern politics of desertification / Paulo Tavares -- Overland there's shorter time to dream : on the occupation of "Xinjiang" / XqSu -- Archive of forgetfulness : a conversation with Bongani Kona -- Anywhere, USA : Aramco's housing in Saudi Arabia's desert / Dalal Musaed Alsayer -- The White Sea Canal and the rhetorical desertification of Karelia / Alla Vronskaya -- Architecture adrift in the Antarctic Desert / Timothy Hyde -- Observation des armements.
Mostly English texts and interviews. Includes quotations (some with English translation) in Arabic, Karelian, Nubian, O'odham, Portuguese, Russian, French, or Uyghur.

Summary:

"Colonial and imperial powers have often portrayed arid lands as 'empty' spaces ready to be occupied, exploited, extracted, and polluted. Despite the undeniable presence of human and nonhuman lives and forces in desert territories, the 'regime of emptiness' has inhabited, and is still inhabiting, many imaginaries. 'Deserts Are Not Empty' challenges this colonial tendency, questions its roots and ramifications, and remaps the representations, theories, histories, and stories of arid lands--which comprise approximately one-third of the Earth's land surface. The volume brings together poems in original languages, conversations with collectives, and essays by scholars and professionals from the fields of architecture, architectural history and theory, curatorial studies, comparative literature, film studies, landscape architecture, and photography. These different approaches and diverse voices draw on a framework of decoloniality to unsettle and unlearn the desert, opening up possibilities to see, think, imagine it otherwise."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781941332740 (paperback)
1941332749 (paperback)

Subject:

Deserts Political aspects 21st century.
Deserts Economic aspects 21st century.
Desert ecology Political aspects 21st century.
Arid regions Political aspects 21st century.
Architecture Arid regions.
Arid regions Government policy 21st century.
Desert gardening Social aspects 21st century.
Land use, Rural Political aspects 21st century.
Desertification Economic aspects 21st century.
Deserts in art.
Deserts in literature.
Decolonization Developing countries.
Deserts Political aspects.
Arid regions Political aspects.
Imperialism and architecture.
Architecture and society.
Arid regions Government policy.
Land use, Rural Political aspects.
Decolonization in literature.
Decolonization in art.
History.
Attitude change.
Exploitation.
Contempt (Attitude)
Decolonization.
Déserts Aspect politique.
Régions arides Aspect politique.
Architecture Régions arides.
Impérialisme et architecture.
Architecture et société.
Régions arides Politique gouvernementale.
Utilisation agricole du sol Aspect politique.
Déserts dans l'art.
Déserts dans la littérature.
Décolonisation dans la littérature.
Décolonisation dans l'art.
Histoire.
Changement d'attitude.
Exploitation (Morale)
Mépris.
Décolonisation.
Déserts Aspect politique 21e siècle.
Déserts Aspect économique 21e siècle.
Écologie des déserts Aspect politique 21e siècle.
Régions arides Aspect politique 21e siècle.
Régions arides Politique gouvernementale 21e siècle.
Jardinage en région désertique Aspect social 21e siècle.
Utilisation agricole du sol Aspect politique 21e siècle.
Désertification Aspect économique 21e siècle.
history (discipline)
Deserts
Arid regions

Added entries:

Henni, Samia, 1980- editor.
Abu Al-Maati, Saphiya, contributor.
Agha, Menna, contributor.
Saeed, Asaiel Al, contributor.
AlYaqoub, Aseel, contributor.
Hussein, Yousef Awaad, contributor.
Azoulay, Ariella, contributor.
Cooper, Danika, contributor.
Guabli, Brahim El, contributor.
Hyde, Timothy, contributor.
Jarvis, Jill, 1979- contributor.
Kona, Bongani, contributor.
Alsayer, Dalal Musaed, contributor.
Robles, Francisco E., contributor.
Tavares, Paulo (Architect), contributor.
Vronskaya, Alla, contributor.
XqSu, contributor.
Coombs, Laura, book designer.
Observatoire des armements, contributor.
Columbia books on architecture and the city.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316102
Call No.: 316102
Copy: 1
Status: External loan