Displacement as Precarious Inhabiting: Care and Repair at the Urban Margins

Co-authored by: Dr Giovanna Astolfo, Prof Camillo Boano, Belen Desmaison

Confronting the crisis, the chapter "Displacement as Precarious Inhabiting: Care and Repair at the Urban Margins" reflects upon efforts to deal with the trouble of displacement across different geographies of engagement. Weaving the spatial narratives of three separate territories – Iquitos in Peru, Bar Elias in Lebanon, and Hlaingtharyar in Yangon – we wish to reflect on displacement as a process, a territory, a condition and a spatial practice, inextricably intertwined with the promise of death, extinction and the insurance of life and, therefore, with the unfinished possibility of inhabiting.

This chapter is published in Beyond Houses: Architectural Thinking and Practice for Climate, Disaster and Forced Displacement Crises published by Springer and available online here (Requires institutional login to access). 

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