Short description:

This book critically interrogates dominant narratives surrounding displacement by offering an in-depth examination of how it unfolds across diverse urban and rural settings worldwide.

Long description:

This book critically interrogates dominant narratives surrounding displacement by offering an in-depth examination of how it unfolds across diverse urban and rural settings worldwide. It addresses the intricate realities of displacement and its impact on the built environment.

Through a series of case studies spanning cities, refugee camps, and small towns, the book reveals how communities are uprooted and resettled not solely due to conflict or political unrest but also to economic shifts, environmental changes, and urban development. Challenging conventional dichotomies between voluntary and forced migration and formal and informal resettlement, this volume advocates for a nuanced understanding of displacement that captures the lived experiences of affected communities. Examining the politics of space-making in urban contexts, the book interrogates the roles of governments, private corporations, and individuals in shaping displacement dynamics. Thematic sections provide diverse perspectives on the creation, transformation, and contestation of urban spaces in the context of mobility and migration.

This volume critically analyzes the socio-spatial transformations prompted by displacement, bringing together scholars from anthropology, architecture, urban planning, and related fields. It examines the socio-spatial shifts triggered by displacement, emphasizing the role of human agency in navigating and reshaping environments under displacement conditions. This collection is essential for scholars and students in architecture, urban studies, sociology, and migration studies, as well as practitioners and professionals engaged in urban development and policymaking.

Table of Contents:

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Introduction

Gihan Karunaratne

Section 1: Everyday Displacement

Chapter 1. Urbanisms of Displacement and Racial (bio)Politics in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

Felipe Hernandez

Chapter 2. Lagos, Nigeria: A Study in anarchy and negotiation

Fabienne Hoelzel

Chapter 3. Exploring influential factors for decision-making in the directions of urban development: urban house displacement vs. urban heritage protection

Ali Cheshmehzangi, Tong Zou, Tian Tang and Li Xie

Chapter 4. Reversing displacement: The enforcement of Inclusionary land management instruments

Cynthia Goytia

Section 2: The Gentrified City

Chapter 5. Displaced in situ: The communities left behind in Colombo's Urban Transformation 

Gihan Karunaratne, Jagath Munasinghe and Tanzil Shafique

Chapter 6. Evictability between extinction and emergence. Toward a collectivity otherwise Giovanna Astolfo

Chapter 7. Reaching for the stars: Boca Chica and interstellar colonialism

Luis Hernan

Chapter 8. The ill-defined city - post covid trends of dispersal and the emergence of the new, footloose citizen in a virtual world

Peter Bishop and Lesley Williams

Chapter 9. Occupations of Public Space and theArchitecture of Distributed Social Care in Athens

Angeliki Sakellariou

Section 3: Displaced at the border

Chapter 10. The Hostile Architecture of Hospitality: Designed Semi-carceral Facilities for Migrants

Irit Katz

Chapter 11. Displacement and the opaque infrastructures of inhabiting: a fugitive urbanism?

Camillo Boano

Chapter 12. Displaced democracy: Refugees, elections, and humanitarian management in northern Uganda

Ryan Joseph O'Byrne

Chapter 13. From Local to Global Policy: UNHCR and Urban Refugees in Nairobi, Kenya

Neil J. W. Crawford

Section 4: Spaces of Diaspora

Chapter 14. Forced migration trajectories: Displacement and humanitarian migrants from Ukraine in Australia

Olga Oleinikova and Iryna Oleinikova

Chapter 15. Diaspora Space and Nature-Based Integration

Azadeh Fatehrad, Davide Natalinni, Hyab Yohannesand and Gianluca Palombo

Chapter 16. A City Rebuilds:  A Family History of the Rust Belt

Thaddeus Pawlowski

Index