Mirjana Lozanovska

Migrant Housing

Architecture, Dwelling, Migration

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Produktbeschreibung

Migrant Housing examines the house as the architectural construct in the processes of migration. Houses are pivotal to any migration story, with studies showing that migrant communities' participation in the adaptation, extension or building of houses provides symbolic materiality of belonging.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780367524982
• ISBN-10: 0367524988
• Artikelnr.: 59560825

Autorenporträt

Mirjana Lozanovska is Associate Professor at Deakin University, Australia. Her research deploys multidisciplinary theories of space to examine mobility and exchange and its impact on architecture, diversity and culture, and the reinvention of the city. She has published widely on migration and architecture, and is editor of the anthology, Ethno-Architecture and the Politics of Migration (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part I: Histories and Theories of Post-War Migrant Housing
1. Spatial Enclaves and Envelopes of Identity 2. Abjection, Otherness,
Performativity 3. Building the Nation and the Migrant Enclave Part II:
House/Home 4. Diaspora Aesthetics and the Tell-Tale Details of
Architectural Cultures 5. The Migrant House 6. Dwelling after Emigration
Part III: Mapping Migrant Spaces of Home 7. Maps, Myths and Origins 8. The
Village as Commemorative Homeland 9. Twin House Bibliography. Index