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From Shelters to Dwellings
In Zaatari camp, Jordan, thousands of Syrian refugees were sheltered in tents and caravans, which they steadily appropriated and turned into dwellings that responded to their social and cultural needs. In this book, Ayham Dalal takes a closer look at this remarkable transformation. He draws on the tension between 'the shelter' and 'the dwelling' to unravel how new spaces unfold in between them, where refugees become architects and the camp is dismantled and reassembled. From Shelters to Dwellings is the first study to uniquely combine ethnographic observations with new architectural research methods, to illustrate in detail how refugees inhabit shelters. It is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding how camps and shelters are transformed by the powerful act of dwelling.
Communicative Constructions and the Refiguration of Spaces
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com , has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license Through a variety of empirical studies, this volume offers fresh insights into the manner in which different forms of communicative action transform urban space. With attention to the methodological questions that arise from the attempt to study such changes empirically, it offers new theoretical foundations for understanding the social construction and reconstruction of spaces through communicative action. Seeing communicative action as the basic element in the social construction of reality and conceptualizing comm...
Digitale Stadtplanung
Was bedeutet Digitalisierung in der Planung, wie verändern sich dadurch das Planen und der Blick auf Städte? In einer vergleichenden ethnografischen Studie untersucht Martin Schinagl aus einer raumsoziologischen Perspektive die Arbeitswelten von Stadtplaner*innen im Umgang mit digitalen Technologien. Dabei zeigt er, wie die Nutzung dieser Werkzeuge mit dem Tun der Planer*innen, der Organisation von Planungsprozessen und der Weise, wie Raumwissen konstruiert wird, zusammenhängen. Digitalisierung versteht sich so als technisiertes räumliches Anordnen sozialer Beziehungen. Sie materialisiert sich in den Orten des Planens und darin, wie Planer*innen Städte und Räume sehen, verstehen und gestalten.
Religion and Politics in the United States and Germany
Current interest in the relation of religion and politics is intense in both the US and Germany. Yet observers are regularly struck by fundamental divergences between approaches to and conceptualisations of this field on either side of the Atlantic. This volume, containing contributions by German and US authors from various disciplinary backgrounds, seeks to offer some clarification by elucidating traditional and newly emerging differences between, but also common challenges to, these societies in issues such as pluralism of values, religious education, the role of religious minorities, the relation of religion and elite formation, and religious aspects of voting patterns.
