From Shelters to Dwellings – The Dismantling and Reassembling of the Refugee Camp

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Ayham Dalal

From Shelters to Dwellings – The Dismantling and Reassembling of the Refugee Camp

Ayham Dalal

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Transcript Verlag
27 March 2023

Architecture; Refugees & political asylum; Geography

In Zaatari camp, Jordan, thousands of Syrian refugees were sheltered in tents and caravans, which they steadily appropriated and turned into dwellings. In this book, Ayham Dalal takes a closer look at this remarkable transformation - a process that involved the dismantling and reassembling of the camp. This transformation is challenging its humanitarian order and disciplinary machine, while allowing refugees to construct dwellings that responded to their social and cultural needs. Caravans were turned into architectural elements and financial assets, and materials were negotiated in relation to prevailing politics and time. These practices not only humanized the shelter and the camp but also underlined the importance of a ?right to appropriation? in a world where bottom-up practices of ?habiting? are being increasingly repressed by the top-down production of ?habitats?.

By: Ayham Dalal
Imprint: Transcript Verlag
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 226mm, Width: 147mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 666g
ISBN: 9783837658385
ISBN 10: 3837658384
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 27 March 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ayham Dalal is an architect, urban planner and artist born and raised in Syria. He holds a PhD in architecture from Technische Universität Berlin and is currently an adjunct assistant professor at the urban studies program at Vassar College in the USA. Between 2018 and 2021, Ayham was part of the CRC1265 ""Re-Figurations of Space"" at TU Berlin, and a research associate at Ifpo Amman (2017-2021). His research focuses on displacement, mobility, culture, identity and their impact on urban space.

Reviews for From Shelters to Dwellings – The Dismantling and Reassembling of the Refugee Camp

»Dalal provides a fresh perspective to refugee studies and human geography.« * The Middle East Journal, 558 (2023) *

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From Shelters to Dwellings – The Dismantling and Reassembling of the Refugee Camp

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