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Architecture and the Right to Heal: Resettler Nationalism in the Aftermath of Conflict and Disaster

Name: Architecture and the Right to Heal: Resettler Nationalism in the Aftermath of Conflict and Disaster
Brand: Duke University Press
SKU: 9781478032571
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Contributors:

Esra Akcan

Publisher:

Duke University Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Architecture, Political Science, Social Science

Book Subcategory:

History, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Cultural & Ethnic Studies

Book Topic:

Middle Eastern Studies

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Release Date:

11/11/2025

ISBN 13:

9781478032571

Weight:

1.9 lbs

Size:

8.80 x 5.90 x 0.80 inches

Pages:

464

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In Architecture and the Right to Heal, Esra Akcan calls for architecture to take an active role in healing communities affected by socioeconomic, political, and environmental disasters. Akcan frames these processes by discussing buildings and spaces in relation to climate change mitigation and transitional justice. Focusing on lands held by the former Ottoman Empire, Akcan highlights the ongoing struggle to heal after internal social, state, and business-led violence ranging from forced disappearance to mass extinction. Putting forth the concept of resettler nationalism as a source of displacement and partition, she argues that while architecture and urban planning have been weaponized to segregate and subjugate minorities throughout history, they could instead confront systemic violence and make accountability and reparations possible. For Akcan, healing constitutes a matter of rights as well as a holistic notion of justice that addresses the intersections of social, global, and environmental issues and one can be achieved through architecture. By locating spaces of political and ecological harm, Akcan advocates for healing on individual, communal, and planetary levels.

About the Author
Esra Akcan is Professor of Architecture at Cornell University and author of Architecture in Translation: Germany, Turkey, and the Modern House, also published by Duke University Press; Open Architecture: Migration, Citizenship and the Urban Renewal of Berlin-Kreuzberg by IBA 1984/87; and Abolish Human Bans: Intertwined Histories of Architecture.

Architecture and the Right to Heal: Resettler Nationalism in the Aftermath of Conflict and Disaster

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