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

Giovanna Astolfo, Camillo Boano, Belen Desmaison

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Abstract

We are all left with a broken world, where there is no way back to integrity. The only choice is to learn to live with the fragments, ‘staying with the trouble’ of displacement, mending holes, restoring functions, in an attempt to preserve some form of life. Confronting the crisis—as a possible counter-ontology that can be traced back to Deleuze’s proposal of a continuous commitment to the present, the chapter will reflect from practices that preserve human value and accomplish life in conditions of displacement. Weaving the spatial narratives of three different territories—Iquitos in Peru, Bar Elias in Lebanon, and Hlaingtharyar in Yangon we aim to disclose forms of displacement as precarious inhabiting.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationUrban Book Series
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages159-176
Number of pages18
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024

Publication series

NameUrban Book Series
VolumePart F3101
ISSN (Print)2365-757X
ISSN (Electronic)2365-7588

Keywords

  • Inhabitation
  • Margins
  • Precarity
  • Spatial narratives

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