territories, a new type of city has emerged, mostly located at significant border crossings and with a rapid expiration date. Here, I refer to these as “the cities or spaces of in-between.” The overarching analysis which I introduce in the following sections
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Listening with Displacement
Sound, Citizenship, and Disruptive Representations of Migration
Tom Western
the potential of listening to open creative engagements when representing displacement, finding spaces of narrativity that have not yet been claimed and foreclosed, and disrupting the dominant tropes of “European refugee crisis.” Second, it claims that
The Territorialization of Vietnam's Northern Upland Frontier
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Introduction Frontier regions in the global South are complex and dynamic physical and social spaces where cultures meet and goods and ideas are exchanged, negotiated, and contested ( Alvarez 1995 ; Giersch 2006 ). Such locales can offer numerous
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A Word of Welcome
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Encounters is an invitation for the poetic, the narrative, and the visual to share the same space and cohabitate—certainly not as the same and/or according to predetermined conditions, but more precisely with an equal potential to assert their presence (their
Rafael Guendelman Hales
into the possibility of rethinking the library from within the community. The Iraqi Community Association is a 50-year-old organization that has served as a space for gathering since its foundation. It provides legal counsel to the community, creates a
Notes around Hospitality as Inhabitation
Engaging with the Politics of Care and Refugees’ Dwelling Practices in the Italian Urban Context
Camillo Boano and Giovanna Astolfo
Derridean suggestion of hospitality as “giving place” to the guest—which is about letting them take place in the place the host offers (2000: 25)—and inspired by Bulley's understanding of hospitality as “producers of space” ( 2015: 188 ), we wish to offer a
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh and Mette Louise Berg
underpin studies of migration. Whether through active engagement with empirical materials from spaces and places across the global South, through providing a space to listen to the voices, and bear witness to the perceptions and conceptualizations, of
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Participatory Humanitarian Architecture in the Jarahieh Refugee Settlement, Lebanon
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, participatory mapping, tactical learning, and dialogical forms of democratic participation thus become essential design methodologies. In Jarahieh, such an expanded toolkit was applied to the adaptation of the Save the Children Italy pavilion. The open-space
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Encountering Hospitality and Hostility
Mette Louise Berg and Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
, transit, and (non-)arrival. Migration is, in all its heterogeneity, a multidirectional process that is intrinsically related to diverse forms of encounters: with and between different people and objects, places and spaces, temporalities and materialities
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Mobility and Control My conceptual point of departure is the process of production of space, or the relational sociospatial conflicts that produce a particular space ( Lefebvre [1974] 1991 ). This means focusing on power relations to understand how they