Deserts Are Not Empty

Alla Vronskaya, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Asaiel Al Saeed , Aseel Alyaqoub

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English

Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
30 December 2022

Art & design styles: from c 1960; Architecture; History of architecture; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism; Political structure & processes

Series: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith

"Colonial and imperial powers have often portrayed arid lands as ""empty"" spaces ready to be occupied, exploited, extracted, and polluted. Despite the undeniable presence of human and nonhuman lives and forces in desert territories, the ""regime of emptiness"" has inhabited, and is still inhabiting, many imaginaries. Deserts Are Not Empty challenges this colonial tendency, questions its roots and ramifications, and remaps the representations, theories, histories, and stories of arid lands-which comprise approximately one-third of the Earth's land surface. The volume brings together poems in original languages, conversations with collectives, and essays by scholars and professionals from the fields of architecture, architectural history and theory, curatorial studies, comparative literature, film studies, landscape architecture, and photography. These different approaches and diverse voices draw on a framework of decoloniality to unsettle and unlearn the desert, opening up possibilities to see, think, imagine it otherwise.

With contributions from Saphiya Abu Al-Maati, Menna Agha, Asaiel Al Saeed, Aseel AlYaqoub, Yousef Awaad Hussein, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Danika Cooper, Brahim El Guabli, Timothy Hyde, Jill Jarvis, Bongani Kona, Dalal Musaed Alsayer, Observatoire des armements, Francisco E. Robles, Paulo Tavares, Alla Vronskaya, and XqSu."

By: Alla Vronskaya, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Asaiel Al Saeed, Aseel Alyaqoub, Bongani Kona
Imprint: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 209mm, Width: 151mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 494g
ISBN: 9781941332740
ISBN 10: 1941332749
Series: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 30 December 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Samia Henni is assistant professor of history of architecture and urban development at Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. She is the author of the multi-award-winning Architecture of Counterrevolution: The French Army in Northern Algeria (gta Verlag, 2017), the editor of the War Zones gta papers no. 2 (gta Verlag, 2018), and the curator of exhibitions, such as Archives: Secret-Défense? (ifa Gallery, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, 2021), Housing Pharmacology (Manifesta 13, Marseille, 2020) and Discreet Violence: Architecture and the French War in Algeria (Zurich, Rotterdam, Berlin, Johannesburg, Paris, Prague, Ithaca, Philadelphia, Charlottesville, 2017–2022). She was formerly Albert Hirschman Chair at the Institute of Advanced Study in Marseille, a visiting Geddes Fellow at Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, and a visiting professor at the Institute of Art History at the University of Zurich.

Reviews for Deserts Are Not Empty

[Deserts Are Not Empty] is a terrific compilation of essays that allow us to rethink how the desert has been transformed from an actual condition to an idea in service of extractive politics. -- Ali Ismail Karimi * The Atchitect's Newpaper *