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Deserts Are Not Empty

Autor Alla Vronskaya, Ariella Aisha Azoulay, Asaiel Al Saeed, Aseel Alyaqoub, Bongani Kona
en Limba Engleză Paperback – noi 2022
Deserts Are Not Empty challenges the colonial tendency to portaryarid lands as "empty" spaces ready to be occupied andexploited. Despite the undeniable presence of human and nonhuman lives and forces in desert territories. This volume brings together a collection ofthinking from diverse voices to unsettle and unlearn the desert.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781941332740
ISBN-10: 1941332749
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: 130 color illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 212 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City

Notă biografică

Samia Henni is assistant professor of history of architecture and urban development at Cornell University¿s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. She is the author of the multi-award-winning Architecture of Counterrevolution: The French Army in Northern Algeria (gta Verlag, 2017), the editor of the War Zones gta papers no. 2 (gta Verlag, 2018), and the curator of exhibitions, such as Archives: Secret-Défense? (ifa Gallery, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, 2021), Housing Pharmacology (Manifesta 13, Marseille, 2020) and Discreet Violence: Architecture and the French War in Algeria (Zurich, Rotterdam, Berlin, Johannesburg, Paris, Prague, Ithaca, Philadelphia, Charlottesville, 2017¿2022). She was formerly Albert Hirschman Chair at the Institute of Advanced Study in Marseille, a visiting Geddes Fellow at Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, and a visiting professor at the Institute of Art History at the University of Zurich.

Cuprins

1. Against the Regime of ¿Emptiness¿
Samia Henni
2. Desert Futures Collective
A Conversation with Brahim El Guabli, Jill Jarvis,
and Francisco E. Robles
3. It Is Not a Desert Where Grandmother Sits
Menna Agha
4. Drawing Deserts, Making Worlds
Danika Cooper
5. Imperial Desert Effect: Palestine Is There, Where It Had Always Been
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
6. Space Wars: An Investigation into Kuwait's Hinterland
A Conversation with Saphiya Abu Al-Maati, Asaiel Al Saeed, Aseel AlYaqoub, and Yousef Awaad Hussein
7. The Colonial-Modern Politics of Desertification (Notes on the Past and the Future of the Amazon Forest)
Paulo Tavares
8. Overland There¿s Shorter Time to Dream
XqSu
9. Archives of Forgetfulness
A Conversation with Bongani Kona
10. Anywhere, USA: Aramco¿s Housing in Saudi Arabiäs Desert
Dalal Musaed Alsayer
11. The White Sea Canal and the Rhetorical Desertification of Karelia
Alla Vronskaya
12. Architecture Adrift in the Antarctic Desert
Timothy Hyde
13. Observatoire des armements