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OverviewDiasporic 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nishat Awan , Professor Matthew CarmonaPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Ashgate Publishing Limited Edition: New edition ISBN: 9781472433794ISBN 10: 1472433793 Pages: 218 Publication Date: 28 February 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Electronic book text Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents: Prologue; 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. Index.ReviewsAuthor InformationNishat Awan is a Lecturer in Architecture at University of Sheffield. She is co-author of Spatial Agency (Routledge, 2011) and co-editor of Trans-Local-Act (aaa-peprav, 2011). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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