TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cairns,Stephen
TI  - Drifting: architecture and migrancy 
T2  - The Architext series
SN  - 0415283604 (Hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - NA2543.S6 D75 2004
U1  - 720.103 21
PY  - 2004///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Architecture and society
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Multiculturalism
N1  - Introduction; Stephen Cairns --; 1; Drifting: Architecture/Migrancy; Stephen Cairns --; 2; On Cosmopolitanism; Jacques Derrida --; 3; Architecture as Evidence; Catherine Ingraham --; 4; Mythforms: Techniques of Migrant Place-Making; Paul Carter --; 5; Why Architecture is Neither Here Nor There; Mark Rakatansky --; 6; Migration, Exile and Landscapes of the Imagination; Andrew Dawson and Mark Johnson --; 7; Building Hong Kong: From Migrancy to Disappearance; Ackbar Abbas --; 8; Conflicting Landscapes of Dwelling and Democracy in Canada; Katharyne Mitchell --; 9; Too Many Houses for a Home: Narrating the House in the Chinese Diaspora; Jane M. Jacobs --; 10; Emigration/Immigration: Maps, Myths and Origins; Mirjana Lozanovska --; 11; Earthquake Weather; Sarah Treadwell --; 12; Pacific Island Migration; Mike Austin --; 13; La Frontera's Siamese Twins; Mike Davis --; 14; Screening Los Angeles: Architecture, Migrancy and Mobility; Brian Morris --; 15; By the Bitstream of Babylon: Cyberfrontiers and Diasporic Vistas; Ella Shohat
N2  - "To dwell in these globalizing times requires us to negotiate increasingly palpable flows - of capital, ideas, images, goods, technology and people. Such flows seem to pressurize, breach and sometimes even disaggregrate the places we always imagined to be distinctive and stable. This book is focused on the interaction of two elements within this contemporary situation. The first is the idea of a place we imagine to be distinctive and stable. This idea is explored through architecture, the institution that in the West has claimed the responsibility for imagining and producing places along these lines. The second element is a particular kind of global flow, namely the human flows of immigrants, refugees, exiles, guestworkers and other migrant groups. This book carefully inspects the intersections between architectures of place and flows of migrancy. It does so without seeking to defend the idea of place, nor lament its disaggregation. Rather this book is an exploration of the often complex and unorthodox modes of dwelling that are emerging precisely from within the ruins of the idea of place."--BOOK JACKET
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