Urban Recovery: Intersecting Displacement with Post War Reconstruction

This book explores the intersection of reconstruction and displacement in volatile contexts in the Global South, aiming to understand urban recovery as a holistic and multi-layered process. It brings multidisciplinary perspectives into conversation to examine how trauma, crisis, and recovery overlap, coexist, collide, and redefine each other. The core exploration is to disrupt the oppositional framing of destruction versus reconstruction and place-making versus displacement, spatialize displacement, and extend reconstruction to the displaced people rebuilding their lives, environments, and memories in new locations.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 425 pages
Publication date: 31 May 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book offers a fresh perspective on urban recovery by delving into the intricate intersection of reconstruction and displacement in volatile contexts within the Global South. It explores the diverse spatial, social, artistic, and political factors that foster urban rejuvenation. Traditionally, reconstruction and displacement have been examined as separate processes, focusing on physical recovery and human migration towards safety. However, this book proposes a novel approach by intersecting or even bridging reconstruction with displacement, aiming to gain a deeper understanding of urban recovery as a comprehensive and multifaceted process. By bringing together multidisciplinary perspectives, this book goes beyond the confines of conflict-related displacement and reconstruction and delves into the broader dynamics of crises and recovery. Through empirical research, it examines how trauma, crisis, and recovery intersect, coexist, collide, and redefine each other. The central focus of this edited collection is to challenge the binary framing of destruction versus reconstruction and place-making versus displacement. It seeks to understand how displacement is spatialized, how reconstruction extends to displaced individuals rebuilding their lives, environments, and memories in new locations, and how displacement is framed as agency, the displaced as social capital, post-conflict urban environments as archives, and reconstructions as socio-spatial practices.

Drawing on local and international insights from scholars across various disciplines, this book appeals to a wide range of audiences, including urban studies scholars, architects, social scientists, and those actively involved in urban recovery efforts. It provides valuable insights and methodologies for policymakers, practitioners, and community leaders seeking to navigate the complex challenges of urban reconstruction and displacement in challenging contexts.

In conclusion, this book offers a groundbreaking approach to urban recovery by exploring the intersection of reconstruction and displacement in volatile contexts within the Global South. It challenges traditional perspectives and provides a holistic understanding of urban rejuvenation as a multi-layered and dynamic process. By bringing together multidisciplinary insights and empirical research, it offers valuable insights and methodologies for policymakers, practitioners, and community leaders working towards sustainable and inclusive urban development.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367550431