Sana Murrani

Rupturing Architecture (eBook, ePUB)

Spatial Practices of Refuge in Response to War and Violence in Iraq, 2003-2023

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book to critically and visually explore the spatial practices of refuge in response to conditions of war, violence, and displacement experienced in Iraq from 2003 to 2023.

Written by an Iraqi architect who has lived through the trauma of several wars, 10 years of UN-imposed sanctions, an invasion, and the subsequent violence, this book captures a broad spectrum of spatial responses to trauma and presents a fresh perspective on how ordinary Iraqis create refuge across the spaces of the home, the urban environment, and border geographies.

In the face of spatial wounding and the many injustices suffered by the Iraqi people, there has also been a wealth of refuge-making practices that showcase their creative and imaginative design and adaptability to change and trauma over time. Rupturing Architecture employs methods such as creative deep mapping, memory work, storytelling, interviews, and case studies of architectural responses to the geographies of war and violence. At the core of the book are the lived and felt experiences of fifteen Iraqis from across Iraq, whose resilience underscores a broader narrative of spatial justice and feminist spatial practices. The book articulates the dual nature of rupturing as both a sign of trauma and a powerful act of resistance, examining how these forces shape domesticity, urbanity, and border spaces. The concluding manifesto for spatial justice calls for a deep, integrated understanding of place, memory, and trauma, advocating for comprehensive strategies in the making of refuge spaces that also resonate in a wider, global context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350325364
• Artikelnr.: 72249748

Autorenporträt

Sana Murrani is Associate Professor in Spatial Practice at the University of Plymouth, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations Preface Foreword, Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (University
College London, UK) Acknowledgements Introduction: The spatial structure of
Rupturing Architecture 1. The positionality of protracted rupture Spatial
practice in Rupturing Architecture Deep mapping and the ethics within
Conceptual underpinnings Siting rupture across and between vernacular
informality and humanitarian living Struggle over refuge 2. Siting trauma
spatially: Negotiated and centralized spatial responses from the Global
North and South Locating trauma Dwelling, shelter and refuge Divisions and
overlaps on a fluid map: From north to south, east to west and back Spatial
responses: Views from the North Expanded model of spatiality: Views from
the South (with a focus on the Middle East) 3. Creative negotiations in
spaces of refuge and memory: Material objects, home and domesticity, urban,
borders Intimacies and scales of refuge Ruptured domesticity The urban in a
spherical space between vertical and horizontal violence Displacement and
mobility inside centres, and into borders Creative negotiations of
spatiality between trauma and violence 4. Architectural structures and
disrupted memory of refuge in relation to time Sudden ruptures Ruptures of
mobility and displacement Temporal ruptures Conclusion: A manifesto for
structures of refuge in spatial justice Conceptual findings Methodological
findings Spatial justice manifesto References Index