{"id":1504,"date":"2020-08-26T01:40:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T00:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feministssoa.group.shef.ac.uk\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2025-06-15T19:30:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T18:30:42","slug":"diasporic-urbanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/?p=1504","title":{"rendered":"Diasporic Urbanism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Title:<\/strong> Diasporic urbanism: <em>concepts, agencies &amp; \u2018mapping otherwise\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Author:<\/strong> Nishat Awan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Year:<\/strong> 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Abstract:<\/strong> The term \u2018diasporic urbanism\u2019 addresses the difficulties of operating with diasporic space and of accommodating the material complexities of migrant lives. It proposes displacement and reterritorialisations as methodologies and \u2018mapping otherwise\u2019 as a tool for representing and working with migrant spatialities. Through engaging with a series of everyday spaces the research reveals how diasporas produce new types of spaces and develop new subjectivities in the contemporary European metropolis. These include a street in East London where frequent protests were organised by the Kurdish community, a space whose physicality forces a certain visibility on to those who traverse it; Turkish and Kurdish kahve (caf\u00e9s) on the same street; and a park in East London that through being claimed by one diasporic group has come to symbolise wider notions of political representation. The mapping of these particular spaces addressed the question: within the networked, global condition of the migrant, what objects, subjects and processes can play the role of mediation and translation that is required between \u2018here and there\u2019, or between the layers of a multiple subject? The need for such approaches is apparent in the increasing diversity of European cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link no-border-radius\" href=\"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Diasporic_Urbanism_Nishat_Awan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:80px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nishat Awan, PhD Thesis, 2011. The term \u2018diasporic urbanism\u2019 addresses the difficulties of operating with diasporic space and of accommodating the material complexities of migrant lives. It proposes displacement and reterritorialisations as methodologies and \u2018mapping otherwise\u2019 as a tool [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[83,59,81],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications","tag-decolonisation","tag-intersectionality","tag-migration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2190,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions\/2190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}