Deserts Are Not Empty by Alla Vronskaya

Deserts Are Not Empty by Alla Vronskaya

Deserts Are Not Empty challenges the colonial tendency to portaryarid lands as empty spaces ready to be occupied and exploited. Despite the undeniable presence of human and nonhuman lives and forces in desert territories. This volume brings together a collection of thinking from diverse voices to unsettle and unlearn the desert.

[Deserts Are Not Empty] is a terrific compilation of essays that allow us to rethink how the desert has been transformed from an actual condition to an idea in service of extractive politics-- Ali Ismail Karimi * The Atchitect's Newpaper *

Samia Henni is assistant professor of history of architecture and urban development at Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. She is the author of the multi-award-winning Architecture of Counterrevolution: The French Army in Northern Algeria (gta Verlag, 2017), the editor of the War Zones gta papers no. 2 (gta Verlag, 2018), and the curator of exhibitions, such as Archives: Secret-Défense? (ifa Gallery, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, 2021), Housing Pharmacology (Manifesta 13, Marseille, 2020) and Discreet Violence: Architecture and the French War in Algeria (Zurich, Rotterdam, Berlin, Johannesburg, Paris, Prague, Ithaca, Philadelphia, Charlottesville, 2017–2022). She was formerly Albert Hirschman Chair at the Institute of Advanced Study in Marseille, a visiting Geddes Fellow at Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, and a visiting professor at the Institute of Art History at the University of Zurich.

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ISBN 13	9781941332740
ISBN 10	1941332749
Title	Deserts Are Not Empty
Author	Alla Vronskaya
Series	Emersion: Emergent Village Resources For Communities Of Faith
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
Year published	2022-11-01
Number of pages	384
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