Displacement Urbanism : Politics of Bodies and Spaces of Abandonment and Endurance / Giovanna Astolfo and Camillo Boano.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Cover -- Displacement Urbanism: Politics of Bodies and Spaces of Abandonment and Endurance -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- On the structure of the book and its chapters -- Part I: Extraction -- Part II: Expulsion -- Part III: Exhaustion -- Part IV: Extinction -- Part V: Endurance -- A note about the book's curation, methodologies, and positionalities -- The ruin, the camp, and the shelter-​home: spatial figures, practices, and tensions across the chapters -- 1 Framing Displacement Urbanism -- The co-​constitution of displacement and urbanism -- Urbanizing the debate on displacement -- Dispossessing spaces and producing surplus bodies -- Intersections with bodies: biopolitical frames -- Colonial, racial, and violent displacement -- Precariousness, colonial capitalism, and climate collapse -- Revisiting the biopolitics of displacement -- Between capture and excess -- Debility, neither die nor live -- Abandonment and the ordinariness of suffering -- Life, death, and race: bodies that matter -- The biopolitics of displacement urbanism -- The manifold dimensions of displacement urbanism -- Beyond the 'political economy of human deployment': making place in displacement -- References -- Part I Extraction -- 2 Displacement, Two Ways: Necroeconomic Navigations in the Peri-​Urban Global Southeast -- Introduction: Moments of displacement and conditions of displaceability -- Foundations of the necroeconomy -- Forced displacement over the longue dur e e in Myanmar -- Yangon's dual displacement machine -- Disability, debility, debt: the daily displacement squeeze -- Auto-​construction or auto-​eviction? -- Conclusion: Subjective effects -- Notes -- References -- 3 Producing Zo e : The Camp as a Form of Extraction in Castel Volturno.

Introduction -- Castel Volturno as a 'fertile land' for the capture and production of zo e -- Work production platforms -- Extraction -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II Expulsion -- 4 Planning and Design of Rural-​to-​Urban Resettlements for Fast Urbanization in Suzhou, Yangtze River Delta -- Introduction -- From rural to urban land and society -- The characteristics of the resettlement: tabula rasa and compact homogeneity -- The urban development of the Suzhou Industrial Park and its new villages -- The condition of the resettlements -- Future resettlements -- Note -- References -- 5 Between Augmented Disposability and Deferred Disposal: A View from Istanbul -- The crisis of urban transformation, urban transformation as a crisis -- Augmented disposability, deferred disposal in Fikirtepe -- Precarious balance -- A twofold condition -- Upcycling the leftovers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part III Exhaustion -- 6 Displaced and Evicted Migrant Women: Informal Settlement as a Mechanism of Resistance and Territorial Self-​Management -- Introduction -- Iquique and Alto Hospicio: uneven urban development in a Chilean metropolitan area -- Displacement and high residential mobility within central urban areas -- Self-​managed informal settlement as a mechanism of care and construction of safe spaces -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 7 Shifting Geographies of Presence: Territorial Biographies and Forced Displacements Entanglements Within the Kurdistan Region of Iraq -- Introduction -- Narrating displacement continuums: territorial biographies, violence, and 'exhaustion' -- Traditional power and protection spheres Prior to World War I -- Between the World Wars: erasing Kurds from world maps -- Rewriting presence: 1950-​91 -- Modernization aspirations: 1950-​70 -- Under mirages of peace: 1971-​74 -- Cordon sanitaire: 1975-​79.

Genocides and eradicating presence: 1980-​91 -- (Re)calibrating presence with the rise of the humanitarian sphere -- Relief under siege: 1991-​2003 -- UN surrogacy and the OFFP: 1995-​2003 -- (Re)structuring political presence in the KR-​I: 2003-​11 -- A fragile safe pocket amidst chronic geopolitical instability -- The Arab Spring and the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) -- Protection enclaves: collective towns, newly set camps, and typologies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 8 Beyond Shelter: Makeshift Inhabitation in Displacement in Greater Paris -- Introduction -- A makeshift urbanism -- Greater Paris -- Porte de la Chapelle -- Delphine Seyrig -- Soixante AdaDa -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part IV Extinction -- 9 Place Wounding and Becoming-​Extinction in Baghdad after the 2003 US-​led Invasion -- Introduction -- Baghdad's fabric of rupture -- Palimpsestic spatial wounding -- Homing or housing: the antithesis of displacement? -- Conclusion: Integrated narrative of becoming-​extinction -- References -- 10 Top-​Down Disaster Preparedness and Grassroots Environmental Endurance in 2010s Turkey -- Introduction -- The coloniality of top-​down disaster preparedness -- Top-​down disaster preparedness in the 'metropole' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part V Endurance -- 11 Beyond Destitution and Deprivation: Interrogating the Modalities of Endurance by Self-​Settled Refugees in Arua City, Uganda -- Introduction -- Protracted displacement and the temporal materiality of 'invisible' inhabitation -- Setting the scene: Arua City and the geopolitics of protracted displacement -- Contrasting realities of different refugees living in Arua City -- Maria's story -- Self-​settled South Sudanese refugees -- Mzee Mapesa's story -- Invisible inhabitation through the lens of the theory of change.

Survival: from attempted suicide to grappling with identity -- Joining a local Congolese association -- Grappling with identity -- Resource mobilization, land access, and self-​built housing by South Sudanese refugees -- Mobilizing resources for life rebuilding -- Land access -- Self-​built housing -- Socio-​economic stability and self-​reliance -- Leadership role in the Congolese refugee community -- Social integration and resistance to change -- Conclusion: Endurance as a 'continuum' of in-​place making and habitation -- Survival and adaptation -- Post-​survival and agency for change -- Self-​determination, socio-​political embeddedness, and empowerment -- Notes -- References -- 12 Calais as a Zone of Care: Reimagining an Urban Migration Hub Between France and the United Kingdom -- Introduction -- States of violence:​ violent states -- Violent spaces in disguise -- Universal care and the power of imagination -- Conclusion: Imagining Calais beyond humanitarianism -- References -- Conclusion: The Impossible Task -- A coda -- Note -- References -- Index.

At a time when the annihilation of places to live and to imagine a future is unfolding--through the violent return of war, aggressive capitalism, and biopolitical projects of territorial control--this timely book explores the layered and ongoing displacements that shape much of the world.

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