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The importance of a "dwelling" is often taken for granted - yet it is a human necessity. But how can a shelter within a refugee camp ever become a dwelling? Ayham Dalal investigates this question by bringing "dwelling" to the centre of refugee camps' studies. He argues that the transformation from shelter to dwelling is a creative and imaginative process, in which social relations are carved into space whilst politics, time and materiality are negotiated. The book shows that in order to dwell, refugees have to dismantle the machinery of the camp and reassemble it differently. Drawing on fieldwork in Zaatari camp, Ayham Dalal offers a unique architectural insight into dwelling as a complex human phenomenon situated at heart of our precarious modern living
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Acronyms -- List of Arabic Words -- Introduction -- Theoretical Overview -- Part One: Dismantling -- Interlude. Syrians in Jordan and the Construction of Camps -- Chapter 1 Zaatari Camp and its Planning -- Part Two: Reassembling the Social -- Introduction. The Social Ordering of Space -- Chapter 2 Visual Privacy -- Chapter 3 Family Relations -- Chapter 4 Culture, Knowledge, Memory and Identity -- Outro. From the Social to the Material -- Part Three: Reassembling the Material -- Chapter 5 The Caravan -- Chapter 6 Tents, Zinco and Cement -- Refugees as Architects -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography