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  • Fragments of Home

    Refugee Housing and the Politics of Shelter

    by Tom Scott-Smith ...
    Abandoned airports. Shipping containers. Squatted hotels. These are just three of the many unusual places that have housed refugees in the past decade. The story of international migration is often told through personal odysseys and dangerous journeys, but when people arrive at their destinations a more mundane task begins: refugees need a place to stay. Governments and charities have adopted a ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • On an Empty Stomach

    Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief

    by Tom Scott-Smith ...
    On an Empty Stomach examines the practical techniques humanitarians have used to manage and measure starvation, from Victorian "scientific" soup kitchens to space-age, high-protein foods. Tracing the evolution of these techniques since the start of the nineteenth century, Tom Scott-Smith argues that humanitarianism is not a simple story of progress and improvement, but rather is profoundly shaped ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Structures of Protection?

    Rethinking Refugee Shelter

    Edited by Tom Scott-Smith, Mark E. Breeze ...
    Series Book 39 - Forced Migration
    Questioning what shelter is and how we can define it, this volume brings together essays on different forms of refugee shelter, with a view to widening public understanding about the lives of forced migrants and developing theoretical understanding of this oft-neglected facet of the refugee experience. Drawing on a range of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, law, architecture, and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Structures of Protection?

    Rethinking Refugee Shelter

    Edited by Mark E. Breeze, Tom Scott-Smith ...
    Series Book 39 - Forced Migration
    Questioning what shelter is and how we can define it, this volume brings together essays on different forms of refugee shelter, with a view to widening public understanding about the lives of forced migrants and developing theoretical understanding of this oft-neglected facet of the refugee experience. Drawing on a range of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, law, architecture, and ... Read more

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  • A Future in Ruins

    UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace

    by Lynn Meskell ...
    Best known for its World Heritage program committed to "the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity," the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded in 1945 as an intergovernmental agency aimed at fostering peace, humanitarianism, and intercultural ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture

    by Nishat Awan, Tatjana Schneider, Jeremy Till ...
    This book offers the first comprehensive overview of alternative approaches to architectural practice.At a time when many commentators are noting that alternative and richer approaches to architectural practice are required if the profession is to flourish, this book provides multiple examples from across the globe of how this has been achieved and how it might be achieved in the future ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Architects Without Frontiers

    by Esther Charlesworth ...
    From the targeted demolition of Mostar’s Stari-Most Bridge in 1993 to the physical and social havoc caused by the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, the history of cities is often a history of destruction and reconstruction. But what political and aesthetic criteria should guide us in the rebuilding of cities devastated by war and natural calamities? The title of this timely and inspiring new book, ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

  • New Cultural Landscapes

    Edited by Maggie Roe, Ken Taylor ...
    While historical and protected landscapes have been well studied for years, the cultural significance of ordinary landscapes is now increasingly recognised. This groundbreaking book discusses how contemporary cultural landscapes can be, and are, created and recognised.The book challenges common concepts of cultural landscapes as protected or ‘special’ landscapes that include significant buildings ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere

    The New Global Revolutions

    by Paul Mason ...
    The world is facing a wave of uprisings, protests and revolutions: Arab dictators swept away, public spaces occupied, slum-dwellers in revolt, cyberspace buzzing with utopian dreams. Events we were told were consigned to history—democratic revolt and social revolution—are being lived by millions of people.In this compelling new book, Paul Mason explores the causes and consequences of this great ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Borders of "Europe"

    Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering

    Edited by Nicholas De Genova ...
    In recent years the borders of Europe have been perceived as being besieged by a staggering refugee and migration crisis. The contributors to The Borders of "Europe" see this crisis less as an incursion into Europe by external conflicts than as the result of migrants exercising their freedom of movement. Addressing the new technologies and technical forms European states use to curb, control, and ... Read more

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  • 50 Years World Heritage Convention: Shared Responsibility – Conflict & Reconciliation

    Edited by Marie-Theres Albert, Roland Bernecker, Claire Cave, Anca Claudia Prodan, Matthias Ripp ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book identifies various forms of heritage destruction and analyses their causes. It proposes strategies for avoiding and solving conflicts, based on integrating heritage into the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It reflects on the identity-building role of heritage, on multidimensional conflicts and the destruction of heritage, and considers conflict-solving strategies and ... Read more

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  • The Social (Re)Production of Architecture

    Politics, Values and Actions in Contemporary Practice

    Edited by Doina Petrescu, Kim Trogal ...
    The Social (Re)Production of Architecture brings the debates of the ‘right to the city’ into today’s context of ecological, economic and social crises. Building on the 1970s’ discussions about the ‘production of space’, which French sociologist Henri Lefebvre considered a civic right, the authors question who has the right to make space, and explore the kinds of relations that are produced in the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD