Focusing on the Dadaab refugee camps established in 1991 on the Kenya-Somalia border, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi shows how a refugee camp’s aesthetic and material landscapes—even if born out of emergency—reveal histories, futures, politics, and rhetorics.
Focusing on the Dadaab refugee camps established in 1991 on the Kenya-Somalia border, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi shows how a refugee camp’s aesthetic and material landscapes—even if born out of emergency—reveal histories, futures, politics, and rhetorics.
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi is Assistant Professor of Architecture at Barnard College, Columbia University, and coeditor of Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration and Spatial Violence.
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Abbreviations xiii Author’s Note xv Introduction. Architecture and History in a Refugee Camp 1 1. From Partitions 51 2. Land, Emergency, and Sedentarization in East Africa 99 3. Shelter and Domesticity 141 4. An Archive of Humanitarian Settlement 181 5. Design as Infrastructure 249 Afterword. “Poetry Is a Weapon That We Use in Both War and Peace” 305 Acknowledgments 321 Notes 329 Primary Sources 363 References 371 Index 397
Abbreviations xiii Author’s Note xv Introduction. Architecture and History in a Refugee Camp 1 1. From Partitions 51 2. Land, Emergency, and Sedentarization in East Africa 99 3. Shelter and Domesticity 141 4. An Archive of Humanitarian Settlement 181 5. Design as Infrastructure 249 Afterword. “Poetry Is a Weapon That We Use in Both War and Peace” 305 Acknowledgments 321 Notes 329 Primary Sources 363 References 371 Index 397
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