4 documents
The Settler Colonial Present
Editorial
Andrew Herscher and Ana María León
Architecture Essay
Posted: October 12, 2020
Category
Colonialism & Imperialism, Architecture, Indigenous Issues & Indigeneity, Education
Subjects
Dispossession, Memory
At The Border
At the Border of Decolonization
Andrew Herscher and Ana María León
Architecture Essay
Posted: May 6, 2020
Category
Borders & Frontiers, Indigenous Issues & Indigeneity, Colonialism & Imperialism, Land & territory
Subjects
Decolonization
Superhumanity
Cardboard for Humanity
Andrew Herscher
Architecture Essay
Posted: September 30, 2016
Category
Architecture, Human and Civil Rights
Subjects
Refugees, Materialism, Housing & Real Estate
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Humanitarianism’s Housing Question: From Slum Reform to Digital Shelter
Andrew Herscher
“Digital Food,” “Digital Shelter,” and Voucher Humanitarianism
Some refugees from the current civil war in Syria have fled to Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey and found themselves in novel spaces—novel not only with respect to the spaces they fled from, but also with respect to the spaces occupied by previous generations of refugees. These new spaces of refuge are structured by technologies of credit distribution in the form of automated teller machines and credit card readers: the means…
e-flux Journal
Posted: October 1, 2015
Category
Technology, Labor & Work, Architecture
Subjects
Housing & Real Estate, Middle East, Class, Privatization