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    Displacements

    Architecture and Refugee

    Part of Sternberg Press / Critical Spatial Practice

    Author Andrew Herscher
    Illustrated by Omer Fast
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    $19.95 US
    The MIT Press | Sternberg Press
    On sale Apr 07, 2017 | 156 Pages | 9783956793141
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    In architectural history, just as in global politics, refugees have tended to exist as mere human surplus; histories of architecture, then, have usually reproduced the nation-state's exclusion of refugees as people out of place. Andrew Herscher's Displacements: Architecture and Refugee, the ninth book in the Critical Spatial Practice series, examines some of the usually disavowed but arguably decisive intersections of mass-population displacement and architecture—an art and technology of population placement—through the twentieth century and into the present. Posing the refugee as the preeminent collective political subject of our time, Displacements attempts to open up an architectural history of the refugee that could refract on the history of architecture and the history of the refugee alike.

    Critical Spatial Practice 9
    Edited by Nikolaus Hirsch, Markus Miessen
    Featuring artwork by Omer Fast

    Andrew Herscher is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan with appointments in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Department of Art History. His publications include Violence Taking Place: The Architecture of the Kosovo Conflict (2010), The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit (2012), and, coedited with Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Spatial Violence (2016).
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    In architectural history, just as in global politics, refugees have tended to exist as mere human surplus; histories of architecture, then, have usually reproduced the nation-state's exclusion of refugees as people out of place. Andrew Herscher's Displacements: Architecture and Refugee, the ninth book in the Critical Spatial Practice series, examines some of the usually disavowed but arguably decisive intersections of mass-population displacement and architecture—an art and technology of population placement—through the twentieth century and into the present. Posing the refugee as the preeminent collective political subject of our time, Displacements attempts to open up an architectural history of the refugee that could refract on the history of architecture and the history of the refugee alike.

    Critical Spatial Practice 9
    Edited by Nikolaus Hirsch, Markus Miessen
    Featuring artwork by Omer Fast

    Author

    Andrew Herscher is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan with appointments in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Department of Art History. His publications include Violence Taking Place: The Architecture of the Kosovo Conflict (2010), The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit (2012), and, coedited with Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Spatial Violence (2016).
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