Deserts Are Not Empty

Auteur

Samia Henni is assistant professor of history of architecture and urban development at Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. She is the author of the multi-award-winning Architecture of Counterrevolution: The French Army in Northern Algeria (gta Verlag, 2017), the editor of the War Zones gta papers no. 2 (gta Verlag, 2018), and the curator of exhibitions, such as Archives: Secret-Défense? (ifa Gallery, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, 2021), Housing Pharmacology (Manifesta 13, Marseille, 2020) and Discreet Violence: Architecture and the French War in Algeria (Zurich, Rotterdam, Berlin, Johannesburg, Paris, Prague, Ithaca, Philadelphia, Charlottesville, 2017-2022). She was formerly Albert Hirschman Chair at the Institute of Advanced Study in Marseille, a visiting Geddes Fellow at Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, and a visiting professor at the Institute of Art History at the University of Zurich.

Texte du rabat

Deserts Are Not Empty challenges the colonial tendency to portaryarid lands as "empty" spaces ready to be occupied and
exploited. Despite the undeniable presence of human and nonhuman lives and forces in desert territories. This volume brings together a collection of
thinking from diverse voices to unsettle and unlearn the desert.

Contenu

1. Against the Regime of "Emptiness"
   Samia Henni
   
   2. Desert Futures Collective
      A Conversation with Brahim El Guabli, Jill Jarvis,
      and Francisco E. Robles
   3. It Is Not a Desert Where Grandmother Sits
      Menna Agha
   4. Drawing Deserts, Making Worlds
      Danika Cooper
   5. Imperial Desert Effect: Palestine Is There, Where It Had Always Been
      Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
   6. Space Wars: An Investigation into Kuwait's Hinterland
      A Conversation with Saphiya Abu Al-Maati, Asaiel Al Saeed, Aseel AlYaqoub, and Yousef Awaad Hussein
   7. The Colonial-Modern Politics of Desertification (Notes on the Past and the Future of the Amazon Forest)
      Paulo Tavares
   8. Overland There's Shorter Time to Dream
      XqSu
   9. Archives of Forgetfulness
      A Conversation with Bongani Kona
   10. Anywhere, USA: Aramco's Housing in Saudi Arabia's Desert
       Dalal Musaed Alsayer
   11. The White Sea Canal and the Rhetorical Desertification of Karelia
       Alla Vronskaya
   12. Architecture Adrift in the Antarctic Desert
       Timothy Hyde
   13. Observatoire des armements