Architectures of Resistance :
Subtitle: negotiating borders through spatial practices
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: July 23, 2024
Place of publication: Leuven BE
Language: eng
Format: open access ePDF
Number of pages: 286
Table of contents: title: .; title: List of Figures 7; title: Acknowledgments 11; title: ARCHITECTURES OF RESISTANCE: Negotiating Borders through; title: Spatial Practices 13; title: Nishat Awan, Angeliki Sioli, Kristopher Palagi; title: PART 1 — IN THE BORDERS; title: THE POLITICAL EQUATOR 31; title: Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz; title: RECOLORING THE GREEN LINES: Street Art and Urban Identity in; title: the Levant, 2000–2020 49; title: Panos Leventis; title: FICTIONAL WALLS: Dystopian Scenarios of Bordered Lives 71; title: Angeliki Sioli; title: SEWING BORDERS: Negotiating the Temporalities of Borders and; title: Displacements 85; title: Mohamad Hafeda; title: PART 2 — THROUGH THE BORDERS; title: MAPPING ARCHITECTURES OF DISPLACEMENT 111; title: Nishat Naz Awan; title: WAY STATION AND ASYLUM: Border Conditions in Architectural; title: Education 131; title: Ursula Emery McClure, Marisa Gomez Nordyke, and Paul Holmquist; title: Table of ConTenTs; title: 6; title: POLITICS AND ARCHITECTURE OF BORDER CROSSINGS:; title: The Case Study of Gevgelija in North Macedonia 155; title: Aleksandar Staničić; title: BORDERS AND IMAGINARY PASSAGES 179; title: Sofia Dona; title: PART 3 — BEYOND THE BORDERS; title: THE BORDER COMPLEX: Mapping Spaces of Simultaneity 201; title: Marc Schoonderbeek; title: TRUTH-SPOTS AND BOUNDARY-WORK: Encountering,; title: Transcending, and Rethinking Boundaries in Cities and in Urban Studies 219; title: Eugene McCann; title: GREENWAY AS BORDER 237; title: Nicholas Serrano; title: THE SACRED INSIDE: Shameful Camera Encounters in the Refugee; title: Camp 253; title: Aya Musmar; title: NEGOTIATING BORDERS THROUGH SPATIAL PRACTICES:; title: A Conclusion 275; title: Angeliki Sioli, Nishat Awan, and Kristopher Palagi; title: About the editors and contributors 279; title: Index 285; title: 7; title: LIST OF FIGURES; title: Figure 1-1 Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, Debor(er) I, 2012. 32; title: Figure 1-2 Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, The Political Equator,; title: 2015. 35; title: Figure 1-3 Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, Political Equator: Baton; title: Rouge, Louisiana State University School of Architecture, 2019. Students; title: developed 5W tables before proposing architectural interventions to; title: penetrate urban borders in the city of Baton Rouge. 39; title: Figure 1-4 Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, Cross-Border Commons: A; title: Geography of Interdependence, Yale University School of Architecture,; title: 2019. A 5W table that investigates the social and environmental impacts; title: of neoliberal globalization and multinational corporations. 42; title: Figure 1-5 Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, Mapping Conflict, at; title: Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Master’s Program in; title: Sustainable Emergency Architecture, 2016. A Conflict Diagram; title: exploring the refugee crisis in 2016, and proposing new strategies. 43; title: Figure 2-1 Ernesto Maranje. “The Rhino and the Oxpecker” (2017). Spears; title: Street, Beirut. 53; title: Figure 2-2 Examples of buffed graffiti (undated) in Jerusalem. Images by; title: author, 2019. 54; title: Figure 2-3 Farrhad O’Neill. “Constructing the Past” (2004). Thisseos Street,; title: Nicosia. 57; title: Figure 2-4 Left: Jad-El Khoury. “Potato Nose” (2016). Hamra Street, Beirut; title: (33.895378, 35.485444); Right: Jad-El Khoury. “Potato Nose [War Peace; title: Project]” (2015). Holiday Inn Hotel, Foaad Shehab Avenue, Beirut; title: (33.899375, 35.495579). Images by author, 2019. 59; title: Figure 2-5 Twenty Three. “Baffle Zone [South]” (2017). Thisseos Street,; title: Nicosia (35.174416, 33.369319). Image by author, 2022. 62; title: Figure 4-1 Hands writing and translating between Arabic and English. 86; title: Figure 4-2 Hand sewing boundaries. 89; title: Figure 4-3 Tourists’ maps of Beirut with sewn boundaries_ J. S. map. 89; title: Figure 4-4 Tourists’ maps of Beirut with sewn boundaries_ M. S. map. 90; title: Figure 4-5 Tourists’ maps of Beirut with sewn boundaries_ I. M. map. 90; title: Figure 4-6 Tourists’ maps of Beirut with sewn boundaries_ M. B. map. 90; title: Figure 4-7 Marking borders onto Beirut tourists’ maps_ M. S. map. 91; title: Figure 4-8 Drawing and stitching borders onto Beirut tourists’ maps_; title: J. S. map. 93; title: Figure 4-9 A variety of Middle East maps; printed Google map. 96; title: lisT of figures; title: 8; title: Figure 4-10 A variety of Middle East maps; outline map. 96; title: Figure 4-11 A variety of Middle East maps; 1916 Sykes-Picot map. 96; title: Figure 4-12 A variety of Middle East maps; tourist map. 97; title: Figure 4-13 New sewn boundary on an outline map _ J. S. map. 98; title: Figure 414 Details from the correspondence that preceded the Balfour; title: Declaration. 99; title: Figure 4-15 Details from the correspondence that preceded the Balfour; title: Declaration. 99; title: Figure 4-16 Detail from 1916 Sykes-Picot map. 99; title: Figure 4-17 Sewn displacement route on white paper_ J. S. map. 102; title: Figure 4-18 Sewn displacement route on white paper_ I. M. map. 102; title: Figure 4-19 Sewn displacement route on white paper_ M. S. map. 103; title: Figure 4-20 Sewn displacement route on white paper_ M. B. map. 103; title: Figure 4-21 Positioning the “refugee crisis” within a continuing historic; title: timeline that includes the protagonists’ events and experiences. 105; title: Figure 5-1 A factory in the agricultural area near Muridke spilling toxic waste; title: into the irrigation canal. Syed Kamran Ali Rizvi (2021). 115; title: Figure 5-2 A mapping of the networks that make the space of the Turkish; title: kahve (café) in London. Author (2008). 118; title: Figure 5-3 The patchy globe is a collage of photos and other visual and audio; title: material from areas the research team have conducted field work layered; title: on top of an image of the planet. Topological Atlas (2021). 121; title: Figure 6-1 La Linda International Bridge, photo by Ursula Emery McClure,; title: September 11, 2021. 134; title: Figure 6-2 UTA students crossing the US-Mexico border at Santa Elena; title: Canyon, photo by Ursula Emery McClure, September 12, 2021. 138; title: Figure 6-3 UTA student projects: Emanuel Paclibon (top), Youssef Elmergawy; title: (middle), Calvin Ridenour (bottom). University of Texas Arlington, Fall; title: 2021. 139; title: Figure 6-4 LSU student project, “Bordering Apparatus.” Peggy Faucheux,; title: Lydia Hagel, and Gurkirat Kaur. Louisiana State University, 2018. 144; title: Figure 6-5 LSU student project, master plan,; title: Mending the Divide through; title: Healing & Exchange. Saul Belloso, Grayson Bullion, Gurkirat Kaur, and; title: Madeline Luke. Louisiana State University, 2018. 146; title: Figure 6-6 LSU student project, plans and longitudinal section,; title: “Memorializing Histories.” Madeline Luke. Louisiana State University,; title: 2018. 147; title: Figure 7-1 Border between Belgium and the Netherlands, Baarle-Nassau,; title: 2021. Photo: author. 156; title: Figure 7-2—Figure 7-6 Gevgelija customhouse, Mihajlo Mitrović, 1965,; title: details. Source: Mihajlo Mitrović, “Zapis o tri moja dela,” 1970. 161; title: lisT of figures; title: 9; title: Figure 7-7 The shopping mall that was built adjacent to Mitrović’s customs; title: house, which was later removed. 163; title: Figure 7-8 The souvenir shop at the Gevgelija border crossing. 165; title: Figure 7-9 The “Flamingo” casino-hotel in Gevgelija. 166; title: Figure 7-10 Migrants gathered at the Gevgelija train station. 167; title: Figure 7-11 Barb-wired wall on the Greece-North Macedonian border. 167; title: Figure 8-1 “La Puerta de las Californias” (2017). A wooden door, transported; title: by truck across the border from Tijuana to San Diego. 180; title: Figure 8-2 “Herbarium” (2018). A herbarium including plants from both; title: sides of the gabion wall in Neuperlach, Munich. 181; title: Figure 8-3 “Alternative Brennero” (2019). Nine YouTube videos document; title: the routes of motorcyclists through various mountain passes in the Alps. 182; title: Figure 8-4 “Voyageurs” (2019) A video installation captures the moment of; title: release of thousands of pigeons and their ability to follow the earth’s; title: magnetic field. 183; title: Figure 8-5 “Mountains Come First” (2021). 10 video stills capturing Juxhin; title: Kapaj shoveling sand to form the shape of the mountain range that he; title: crossed in 1990. 187; title: Figure 12-1 A close-up view of the landscape behind the wired border-line; title: while driving on Baghdad highway that cuts through the North Eastern; title: Desert of Jordan. 256; title: Figure 12-2 A view of Za’atri refugee camp from the ring road. Photo was; title: taken while on one of the NGO tours around the camp. 257; title: Figure 12-3 A view of the refugee camp that is enabled by a topographical; title: rise near District 11. 258; title: Figure 12-4 A view of the camp while distributing gas cylinders to community; title: kitchens (pink-painted brick buildings). 259; title: Figure 12-5 Inside the Howsh of a family in District 1. 262; title: Figure 12-6 Inside the Howsh of a family in District 3. 263; title: Figure 12-7 Taken from within a Howsh in District 12. 264; title: Figure 12-8 A view of a large Howsh that has been utilized for farming; title: purposes, as well as for keeping live stock. 265; title: Figure 12-9 A view of the entrance with a folded curtain gesturing an; title: invitation to the inside. 268; title: Figure 12-10 View of the expanding territory of a household. 269; title: Figure 12-11 A view of one household on a windy day. 270; title: Figure 12-12 A photo of a transparent curtain disclosing a private view of the; title: Howsh where a woman and her daughter sat against the rays of the sun. 271; title: .