1st Edition

Diasporic Agencies: Mapping the City Otherwise

By Nishat Awan Copyright 2016
236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

Diasporic Agencies addresses the neglected subject of how architecture and urban design can respond to the consequences of increasing migration. Arguing that diasporic inhabitations can only be understood as the co-production of space, subjectivity and politics, the book explores questions of difference, belonging and movement in the city. Through focusing on a series of examples, it reveals how... Read more

Diasporic Agencies: Mapping the City Otherwise

Biography

Nishat Awan is a Lecturer in Architecture at University of Sheffield. She is co-author of Spatial Agency (Routledge, 2011) and co-editor of Trans-Local-Act (aaa-peprav, 2011).