Main entry:

Awan, Nishat, author.

Title & Author:

Diasporic agencies : mapping the city otherwise / Nishat Awan.

Publication:

©2016
Farnham Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2016]

Description:

xii, 204 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.

Series:

Design and the built environment

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Diasporas and the city -- Part I. Diasporas and agency -- Potentialities of Diasporic space -- Difference and belonging -- Diasporic inhabitations -- Spatial figurations of Diasporic agencies -- Trans-local practices: the making of a 'Diasporic Home' in the city -- Multiplying borders: replicas, imitations and mediation -- Diasporic territories: overlapping spheres and fragile envelopes -- Part II. Mapping otherwise -- A Diasporic spatial imaginary -- Maps and agency -- Representing the non-representational -- Diasporic diagrams -- A diasporic urbanism to come.

Summary:

Diasporic Agencies addresses the neglected subject of how architecture and urban design can respond to the consequences of increasing migration. Arguing that diasporic inhabitations can only be understood as the co-production of space, subjectivity and politics, the book explores questions of difference, belonging and movement in the city. Through focusing on a series of examples, it reveals how diasporas produce new types of spaces and develop new subjectivities in the contemporary European metropolis. It explores the way in which geo-politics affects individual lives and how national and regional borders inscribe themselves onto diasporic bodies. The book claims that the multiple belongings of diasporic citizens, half-here and half-there, provoke a crisis in the standard modes of architectural representation that tend to homogenise and flatten experience. Instead Diasporic Agencies makes a case for a non-representational approach, where the displacement of the diasporic subject and their consequent reterritorialisation of space are developed as modes of thinking and doing. In parallel, mapping otherwise is proposed as a tool for spatial practitioners to work with these multi-layered spaces. The book is aimed at spatial practitioners and theorists of all sorts - architects, artists, geographers, urban designers - anyone with a general interest in mapping or those interested in working through issues related to migration and the contemporary city.

ISBN:

9781472433770 (hardcover alkaline paper)
1472433777 (hardcover alkaline paper)
(electronic book)
9781472433787
(electronic publication)
9781472433794

Subject:

Architecture and society Europe History 21st century.
Cultural geography Europe History 21st century.
Emigration and immigration Social aspects.
Emigration and immigration Psychological aspects.
Identity (Psychology) Social aspects.
Architecture et société Europe Histoire 21e siècle.
Géographie culturelle Europe Histoire 21e siècle.
Émigration et immigration Aspect social.
Émigration et immigration Aspect psychologique.
Identité (Psychologie) Aspect social.
Architecture and society.
Cultural geography.
Architecture Aspect social Europe 21e siècle.
Identité (psychologie) Aspect social.
Europe.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Design and the built environment series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 299503
Call No.: BIB 245624
Status: Available