Architecture and the Right to Heal

Resettler Nationalism in the Aftermath of Conflict and Disaster

Esra Akcan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

456 Seiten

2025
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2924-3 (ISBN)

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In Architecture and the Right to Heal, Esra Akcan calls for architecture to take an active role in healing communities affected by socioeconomic, political, and environmental disasters. Akcan frames these processes by discussing buildings and spaces in relation to climate change mitigation and transitional justice. Focusing on lands held by the former Ottoman Empire, Akcan highlights the ongoing struggle to heal after internal social, state, and business-led violence ranging from enforced disappearance to mass extinction. Putting forth the concept of resettler nationalism as a source of displacement and partition, she argues that while architecture and urban planning have been weaponized to segregate and subjugate minorities throughout history, they could instead confront systemic violence and make accountability and reparations possible. For Akcan, healing constitutes a matter of rights as well as a holistic notion of justice that addresses the intersections of social, global and environmental issues, and one that can be achieved through architecture. By locating spaces of political and ecological harm, Akcan advocates for healing on individual, communal, and planetary levels.

Esra Akcan is Professor of Architecture at Cornell University and author of Architecture in Translation: Germany, Turkey, and the Modern House, also published by Duke University Press, Open Architecture: Migration, Citizenship and the Urban Renewal of Berlin-Kreuzberg by IBA 1984/87, and Abolish Human Bans: Intertwined Histories of Architecture.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Enforced Disappearance: Urban Squares, Cemeteries, Memorials 40
2. Partition: Camps, Model Villages, Retrofits 76
3. Collapse: Slums, Real Estate, Cultural Buildings 138
4. Climate Disaster: Master Plans, Plantations, Campuses 194
5. Extinction: Gardens, Parks, Ruderal Urban Spaces 277
Notes 323
Bibliography 389
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.11.2025
Zusatzinfo	149 color images, 1 map
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	572 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-4780-2924-2 / 1478029242
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-2924-3 / 9781478029243
Zustand	Neuware