... mobility spatial practice informality Nairobi To live in an informal settlement is to exist in a state of propulsion, compelled by economic necessity to traverse highways, footpaths, and railroad tracks, selling goods throughout wide-ranging geographies and, in the process, moving across distinct...

...Farhan Karim Abstract As political questions behind Pakistan's emergence distilled themselves into aesthetic questions of how to represent a country without a past, the debate erupted through the spatial practices determining the form and architectural character of the nation's two capitols...

... and buzz of electric lights ceases, one perceives it in the diminution of the size and stability of dwellings. And, in villages like those de- scribed by Valmiki and Prasad, one smells it. All of these signs tactile, visual, aural, olfac- tory are produced by what Lefebvre calls spatial practice. 24...

...Aslı Zengin Abstract The Turkish cemeteries for the kimsesiz (literally, people who have no one) are graveyards where the state buries the bodies of those people who remain unidentified or unclaimed after a certain period of time. In practice, they are burial sites for the social outcast, namely...

... of climate precarity and extreme weather on subaltern populations, to diverse practices of inhabitation that signal both the creativity and the desperation that characterizes the “contemporary urban.” What is more, these concepts call up both the history and the spatial practices that give coherence...

... of capitalistic, colonial, militaristic, and patriarchal practices embedded in conventional global practice—especially in the professional, technical, and commercial spaces that drive inquiry into architecture as a source of knowledge and meaning. Most urgently, they capture and preserve an architectural archive...

... the “African-Soviet Modern,” an asymmetrical combination of aspiration, materiality, and practice that was rooted in diverse African states and in the Soviet Union. As an analytical category, the African-Soviet Modern speaks to the gap between the grand rhetorical and ideological scope of the Cold War moment...

... spatially with explicit boundaries. But certain of economic activity, but in practice it extended neighborhoods are also being reconfigured its control far more deeply into Jordanian so...

... of becoming unruly,” this article explores how plants and other material actors worked within the society's domain of practice to inform—and deform—the aesthetic, spatial, and territorial coherence of improvement. 7 The article posits and draws from an archive of variegated materialities, ecologies...

... of camp forms, points out that camps can just as easily be thought of as spatial practices, combining field and event, as they can be defined through time . “Just as they are lodged spatially between the open and the closed, camps exist between the temporary and the permanent,” 1 and as such can...

... East • 37:2 • 2017 of the Indian Ocean, taking into account the genu- the historical and spatial imaginations of those ine nature of aesthetic practice and the singularity we try to understand. Triggered substantially by of experience they allow...

... a loss of face, socially speaking. To take seriously the words of Horen Barman, a participant observer of checkpoint life par excellence, is to understand the practice of border security in India's eastern borderlands as relentlessly shape changing— relations changing colors from day to day...

..., naming, surveying, recording). Botany's peculiar temporal, textual, and spatial registers destabilized and amplified these modes of following, some of which marked other natural sciences, and the accumulations that cycled through them. 13 The practices of botanists in Egypt to follow, transcribe...

.... Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life , 103 . Certeau's disassociation of the modifier “proper” from the nouns of place, name, or pronoun usually connected to them reveals the intertwined linguistic and spatial operations he theorizes as “pedestrian speech acts.” In other words, trajectories of walking...

... to preserve the spatial memories of their destroyed homes through the production of place-based memorial books, the reconfiguration of refugee camps, and communal commemorative practices, among other things. Indigenous forms of knowledge production about places of origin are indicative of other ways of seeing...

... project. It is Islamism as political practice and not solely the dynamism of civil society that lies at the root of the city's religious transformation. Nevertheless, Islamism becomes influential because it is able to link civil society and urban subjectivity to its project. These arguments are based...

... had been restricted by agricultural development. Wherever these competing forms This article could not have been written without the invaluable research 1. On twentieth-­century wildlife conservation as a spatial practice, see assistance of Mala Shah or the support of Department II, directed...

... with people's capacities for legal maneuverability, particularly the important role knowledge and capital play in this process. This article builds upon urban scholarship on the Middle East, such as the work done by Hiba Bou Akar, that has adopted an “ethnography of spatial practices” to understand complex...

...? What if text where untouchability is practiced in the open the outsourcing runs in the opposite direction — ​ without any anxiety of the upper-­caste self or ambi- the Dalit outsourcing untouchability to the Brah- guity in spatial separation (219...

...- its which make the union real. . . . They may, like nation through political techniques of cultivation the citizens of an ancient community, or those of and improvement.52 an Asiatic village, have considerable practice...