Outlaw Territories: Environments of Insecurity/Architecture of Counterinsurgency by Scott, Felicity D.

Outlaw Territories: Environments of Insecurity/Architecture of Counterinsurgency

Outlaw Territories: Environments of Insecurity/Architectures of Counterinsurgency traces the relations of architecture and urbanism to forms of...
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Author: Felicity D. Scott
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Language: English
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Outlaw Territories: Environments of Insecurity/Architecture of Counterinsurgency by Scott, Felicity D.

Outlaw Territories: Environments of Insecurity/Architecture of Counterinsurgency

BD$63.04

Outlaw Territories: Environments of Insecurity/Architecture of Counterinsurgency

BD$63.04
Author: Felicity D. Scott
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Outlaw Territories: Environments of Insecurity/Architectures of Counterinsurgency traces the relations of architecture and urbanism to forms of human unsettlement and territorial insecurity during the 1960s and '70s. Investigating a set of responses to the growing urban unrest in the developed and developing worlds, Outlaw Territories revisits an era when the discipline of architecture staked out a role in global environmental governance and the biopolitical management of populations. Felicity D. Scott demonstrates how architecture engaged the displacement of persons brought on by migration, urbanization, environmental catastrophe, and warfare, and at the same time how it responded to the material, environmental, psychological, and geopolitical transformations brought on by postindustrial technologies and neoliberal capitalism after World War II.

At the height of the US-led war in Vietnam and Cambodia, and ongoing decolonization struggles in many parts of the world, architecture not only emerged as a target of political agitation on account of its inherent normativity but also became heavily imbricated within military, legal, and humanitarian apparatuses, and scientific and technological research dedicated to questions of international management and security.

Once architecture became aligned with a global matrix of forces concerned with the environment, economic development, migration, genocide, and war, its conventional role did not remain unchallenged but shifted at times toward providing strategic expertise for institutions responding to transformations born of neoliberal capitalism. Outlaw Territories interrogates this nexus, and questions how and to what ends architecture and the environment came to be intimately connected to the expanded exercise of power within shifting geopolitical frameworks of this time.

Author: Felicity D. Scott
Publisher: Zone Books
Published: 05/20/2016
Pages: 560
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9781935408734
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
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About the Author
Scott, Felicity D.: - Felicity D. Scott is Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, where she directs the PhD program in architecture and codirects the program in Critical, Curatorial and Conceptual Practices in Architecture. She is the author of Architecture or Techno-utopia: Politics after Modernism (MIT Press).

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