- 300 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
In Zaatari camp, Jordan, thousands of Syrian refugees were sheltered in tents and caravans, which they steadily appropriated and turned into dwellings that responded to their social and cultural needs. In this book, Ayham Dalal takes a closer look at this remarkable transformation. He draws on the tension between 'the shelter' and 'the dwelling' to unravel how new spaces unfold in between them, where refugees become architects and the camp is dismantled and reassembled. From Shelters to Dwellings is the first study to uniquely combine ethnographic observations with new architectural research methods, to illustrate in detail how refugees inhabit shelters. It is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding how camps and shelters are transformed by the powerful act of dwelling.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Acronyms
- List of Arabic Words
- Introduction
- Theoretical Overview
- Part One: Dismantling
- Part Two: Reassembling the Social
- Part Three: Reassembling the Material
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography