Displacement Urbanism

Politics of Bodies and Spaces of Abandonment and Endurance
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5292-4232-4
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 322 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Available open access digitally under CC BY NC ND licence.

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 today. Bringing together case studies from both the Global North and South, the contributors examine the deeply entangled relationship between displacement and the production of urban space in our time.

This perspective takes root in the everyday fragility of urban life, particularly in places marked by colonial legacies, racial capitalism, extractive economies and imperial infrastructures. It draws attention to the creative urban processes that arise in the aftermath of violence and the resourceful practices that continue to shape how cities are lived in, imagined and built.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Astolfo, Giovanna

Boano, Camillo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Giovanna Astolfo

1. Framing Displacement Urbanism - Giovanna Astolfo and Camillo Boano

Part 1: Extraction

2. Displacement, Two Ways: Necroeconomic Navigations in the Peri-Urban Global Southeast - Elliott Prasse-Freeman

3. Producing Zoé: The Camp as a Form of Extraction in Castel Volturno - Sofia Moriconi

Part 2: Expulsion

4. Planning and Design of Rural to Urban Resettlements for Fast Urbanisation in Suzhou, Yangtze River Delta - Paola Pellegrini and Jinliu Chen

5. Between Augmented Disposability and Deferred Disposal: A View from Istanbul - Francesco Pasta

Part 3: Exhaustion

6. Displaced and Evicted Migrant Women: Informal Settlement as a Mechanism of Resistance and Territorial Self-Management

- Yasna Contreras Gatica

7. Shifting Geographies of Presence: Territorial Biographies and Forced Displacements Entanglements Within the Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Layla Zibar

8. Beyond Shelter. Makeshift Inhabitation in Displacement in Greater Paris - Stefano Mastromarino

Part 4: Extinction

9. Place Wounding and Displacement Urbanism in Baghdad after the 2003 US-Led Invasion - Sana Murrani, Dhirgham Alobaydi and Ula Merie

10. Top-Down Disaster Preparedness and Grassroots Environmental Endurance in 2010s Turkey - Eray ÇAyli

Part 5: Endurance

11. Beyond Destitution and Deprivation: Interrogating the Modalities of Endurance by Self-Settled Refugees in Arua City, Uganda - Peter Kasaija

12. Calais as a Zone of Care: Reimagining an Urban Migration Hub Between France and the United Kingdom - Kieran Tam and Irit Katz

Conclusion - Camillo Boano

Über Autor(innen)

Boano, Camillo
Camillo Boano is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the Polytechnic of Turin.

Astolfo, Giovanna
Giovanna Astolfo is Associate Professor in Urban Design at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London.

Giovanna Astolfo is Associate Professor in Urban Design at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London.

Camillo Boano is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the Polytechnic of Turin.