Diasporic Agencies: Mapping the City Otherwise

218 Pages·2016·5.92 MB·English

by  Nishat Awan

Diasporic agencies: Mapping the city otherwise
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Diasporic agencies: Mapping the
city otherwise
nishat awan
University of Sheffield, UK
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Design and the built environment | includes bibliographical references and
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cultural geography--europe--history--21st century. | emigration and
immigration--social aspects. | emigration and immigration--psychological
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Contents
List of Figures vii
Prologue xi
Diasporas and the city 1
Part I DIasPoras anD agenCy
potentialities of Diasporic space 15
1 Difference and Belonging 17
2 Diasporic inhabitations 29
spatial Figurations of Diasporic agencies 43
3 trans-Local practices: the Making of a ‘Diasporic home’ in the city 49
4 Multiplying Borders: replicas, imitations and Mediation 75
5 Diasporic territories: overlapping spheres and Fragile envelopes 93
Part II MaPPIng otherwIse
a Diasporic spatial imaginary 113
6 Maps and agency 115
7 representing the non-representational 125
8 Diasporic Diagrams 147
a Diasporic Urbanism to come 195
Index 199

List of Figures
Trans-Local Practices: The Making walk from Dead sea to
of a ‘Diasporic Home’ in the City Mediterranean sea
BCCI, ICIC, FAB c. 1972–91 (4th version),
the kahve are spaces that rely on
1996–2000, graphite on paper, 52 ×
strong male friendships, 2009
138 inches. collection of the whitney
television plays a crucial role in the Museum of american art, new york, ny
trans-local space of the kahve, 2009
gestural mimicry – ‘an eskimaux
the gesture of seed eating transposed watching a seal’. in parry, william
from turkey to a kahve in London, 2009 edward, ‘Journal of a second voyage
an allegorical Map of turkey, 2007 for the discovery of a north-west
passage … ‘, London: J. Murray, 1824
Multiplying Borders: Replicas,
Diasporic Diagrams
Imitations and Mediation
a walk with a Kurdish woman
the colonial era grand trunk
involved in organising the frequent
road leading to india across the
protests on the high street, 2007
wagah border pakistan, 2015
Mapping of a walk with a
shaheed Minar in altab ali
Kurdish activist on the high
park, London, 2007
street – who organised many
Maps and Agency of the protests – showing the
places she frequented, 2007
agencies of mapping, 2010
screenshots of a walk viewed in the
Representing the Non-Representational web interface designed to explore each
walk in section. the elevations at the
Map of Dreaming tracks crossing the
top and bottom are used for navigation
northern end of the canning stock
route – surveyed in the early 1900s, the Mapping the walks as territory, 2007
route was a source of conflict between
screenshots of a walk viewed in the
indigenous groups and colonisers
web interface designed to explore each
a dérive with students from walk in section. the elevations at the
sheffield school of architecture, UK top and bottom are used for navigation
in nowa huta, Kraków, poland
Top: the walk represented using
an ann that traces the use and
viii Diasporic agencies: Mapping the city otherwise
occupation of the street as intensities Diana’s map was the only one
and rhythms, 2009; Left: Detail that escaped the dominance of
turkey and showed a contiguous
Kahve network map of Beşiktas, 2008
Kurdish territory, 2007
web interface for navigating the
Derin’s map – he could only
networks operating within the kahve
draw Kurdistan as a narrative
Kahve network map of yusuf’s of the iraq war, 2007
place (or Upstairs of pub), 2008
yashar’s map – an almost ‘perfect’
Kahve network map of guben, 2008 map from someone with a long-term
Kahve in gülensu neighbourhood involvement in the Kurdish cause, 2007
of istanbul, 2009 a replica of the shaheed Minar with
web interface for navigating the extracts from interviews with the
networks operating within the kahve Bangladeshi girls on display at the
architektur Forum, Linz, austria, 2008
Kurdish woman’s map drawn as a
personal journey across turkey, 2007
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