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- Al Khalidi, Marwa, et al.
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Bordering Principles and Integration in Urban Context
- 2023
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In: field: a free journal for architecture. - 1755-0068. ; 9:1
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this paper we reflect on how bordering emerge in urban integration processes in relation to two geopolitical belongings. The paper emanates from a performative dialogic event, labelled Lund Irbid Parallel Walk connecting two geopolitical regions: one in Europe through the city of Lund in the South of Sweden, and one in the Middle East that is Irbid located in the North of Jordan. Here, we reflect on key places addressed through this staged dialogic event, looking into bordering processes and their effects in and around the two cities. By addressing cultural heritage areas, official government buildings, but above all areas where newcomers have settled, or been placed within the lay-out of the two cities, we trace histories, architecture, and contestations around different bordering processes, exploring how they have been shifting, and emerging. The geopolitical belongings of Lund and Irbid, representing a division between a global North and South, show interesting local complexities as regards ways of handling housing for newcomers, especially refugees, linked to the history of neighboring relations on minor as well as major scales. In this paper we point to varying mechanisms of integration in the two cities, as regards how local border-formation appears, especially as related to architectural and urban transformation.
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- Brown, James Benedict, 1982-, et al.
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Let Loose the Loganberries of War : Making Noise and Occupying Space in Govanhill
- 2010
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In: Field. - : Sheffield School of Architecture. - 1755-0068. ; 3:1, s. 125-131
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In the early hours of Tuesday 7 August 2001 approximately two hundred and fifty police officers - including mounted officers and an aerial surveillance unit - converged on Calder Street in the Glasgow neighbourhood of Govanhill. Accompanied by eight sheriff's officers bearing court orders for eviction, they had come to bring to an end the longest public occupation of a civic building in British history. For the previous 135 days up to seventy local residents at a time had occupied a building described by Historic Scotland as 'an architecturally and historically important part of the city’s history ... particularly important culturally in that until recently they offered a valued and distinctive facility open to all members of the community.'2 It took almost twenty hours to evict the protesters and seal the building with steel shutters. By late evening a crowd of approximately 200 people had gathered on the streets outside. Eggs, flour bombs and fruit were thrown at police officers, and the air was thick with the overpowering stench of garlic powder, three catering-sized tubs of which had been emptied around the building to confuse sniffer dogs sent into to locate the last of the protesters.
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- Frichot, Hélène, 1970-, et al.
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Urban Biopower Stockholm and the Biopolitics of Creative Resistance
- 2015
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In: Field. - Sheffield. - 1755-0068. ; 6:1, s. 39-53
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has argued that the ‘camp’ concived as the paradoxical space of permanent exception designed to exclude the non-citizen has now entered the centre of the contemporary city, where every citizen risks being unmasked as a stranger, or perhaps a worker who has lost his or her working visa. The biopower that organizes the invisible city-camp does so through the administration of the lives and deaths of its population, through subtle shifts in the social atmospheres of belonging and exclusion, and through the ubiquitous use of electronic pass codes, which determine access to both physical sites as well as sites of information. This paper addresses key concepts of biopolitics, biopower, and also noopolitics in order to present collaboratively work undertaken by students in Critical Studies in Architecture at KTH Architecture, Stockholm.
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