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Just Add Water? Architecture and Humanitarianism, 1991-2011

Siddiqi, Anooradha Iyer

2015

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  • Título:
    Just Add Water? Architecture and Humanitarianism, 1991-2011
  • Autor: Siddiqi, Anooradha Iyer
  • Assuntos: Architects ; Architecture ; Art Works ; Decolonization ; Humanitarianism ; Oral History ; Politics ; Refugees ; Water Supply
  • Notas: SourceType-Dissertations & Theses-1
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  • Descrição: Histories of architectural modernism omit the humanitarian project and histories of modern humanitarianism exclude architecture, in spite of an exchange that has been central to each. The humanitarian field has viewed architecture only through the lens of functionalist emergency planning, while the discipline of architecture has equally misread the informality and ephemerality of humanitarian environments. In the former, this problem has stemmed from insensibility to its visual, spatial, and cultural impacts, and in the latter, from fetishization of the technical and cultural matter of high-tech innovation, avant-gardism, and monumentality. By critiquing modes of seeing, the dissertation seeks to denaturalize architecture and archives, and recuperate a counter-history of institutional and informal discourses, practices, politics, and cultures shared between architecture and humanitarianism from the Cold War era to the present. It draws from artifacts in Somali camps and Museum of Modern Art exhibitions, documents in emergency zones, and oral histories taken with dozens of refugees, humanitarians, and architects. It recovers a twenty-year architectural history of a site obscured from maps, the Dadaab complex in Kenya, a significant duty station for humanitarians and architects known commonly as 'the world's largest refugee camp.' It locates modern architecture culture's humanitarian gaze within a history of its postcolonial concerns with development, disaster, and tropical climate, juxtaposing disciplinary discourses and practices against an originary politics that has mobilized architecture's legitimating status. Through microhistories of artifacts that constitute an ever-globalizing humanitarian space, it analyzes aesthetics, technopolitics, and the commodification of aid. The dissertation counters presumptions that camps merely follow the fulfillment of a technical aim, like the establishment of a water source. Instead it exposes urbanity, enterprise, industrial activity, and monumental aspiration, interrogating a long history of architecture's relation to sovereignty and human rights, as well as humanitarianism's cultural claims. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by addressing your request to ProQuest, 789 E. Eisenhower Parkway, P.O. Box 1346, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346. Telephone 1-800-521-3042; e-mail: disspub@umi.com
  • Data de criação/publicação: 2015
  • Idioma: Inglês
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