1st Edition

Architecture on the Borderline Boundary Politics and Built Space

Edited By Anoma Pieris Copyright 2019
304 Pages 96 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 96 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 96 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Architecture on the Borderline interrogates space and territory in a turbulent present where nation-state borders are porous to a few but impermeable to many. It asks how these uneven and conflicted social realities are embodied in the physical and material conditions imagined, produced or experienced through architecture and urbanism. Drawing on historical, global examples, this rich... Read more

List of Figures.  Preface and Acknowledgements.  Introduction.  Part 1: Frontier.  1. Eurasia's Historical Space of Palimpsest - Desert, Border, Riparian and Steppe Manu Sobti.  2. Intersecting Sovereignties: Border Camps and Border Villages in Wartime North America  Anoma Pieris.  3. Data Displacements: Transmitting Digital Media and the Architecture of Detention Sean Anderson and Jennifer Ferng.  4. Archipelagos and Enclaves: On the Border between Jordan and Palestine-Israel Alessandro Petti.  Part 2: Boundary.  5. The Wall against Borders: Contesting Fortress Europe Mirjana Ristic.  6. En Route: The Mobile Border Migrant Camps of Northern France Irit Katz.  7. Mapping the War: Everyday Survival during the Siege of Sarajevo Dijana Alic.  8. Filling in the Gaps: Walls without Limits and Sovereignty with Exceptions Miguel Diaz-Barriga and Margaret Dorsey.  9. Confronting Koreas and the DMZ Ross King.  Part 3: Margin.  10. The Remembered Village between Europe and Asia-Minor: Nea Magnisia at Bonegilla  Anoma Pieris  11. Postcolonial Urbanisms and the Cultural Politics of Redeveloping Kowloon East, Hong Kong Daniel P.S. Goh.  12. Pushing Boundaries: Heritage Resilience of Minority Communities in Post-war Sri Lanka Melathi Saldin.  13. Where do we draw a line? Heritage, Identity and Place in Global Heritage Natsuko Akagawa.  Index.

Biography

Anoma Pieris is a professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne. She has published widely on nationalism, citizenship and sovereignty. Recent publications include Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes: A Penal History of Singapore's Plural Society (2009); Architecture and Nationalism in Sri Lanka: The Trouser under the Cloth (2012); Assembling the Centre: Architecture for Indigenous Cultures. Australia and Beyond (2015), co-authored with Janet McGaw; and Sovereignty, Space and Civil War in Sri Lanka (2018).