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Afro-Euro-Asia
agrarian monocultures
anthropocene
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Balkan War
biodiversity loss
capitalist urbanization
Cappadocia
carbonization
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climate
climate adaptation
climate determinism
climate disaster
collapse
compulsory population transfers
dispossession
dissolution of the Ottoman Empire
earthquake
enforced disappearance
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extinction
Gezira cotton plantations
Greek-Turkish Exchange of Populations Treaty
history of architecture
human and species rights
human rights
Justice
Khartoum
memory and memorials
partition
refugee cities
repair and reparations
resettler nationalism
retrofits
right-to-truth
settlement
slums of capitalist urbanization
squatter settlements
state violence
transitional justice
Turkish-Islamist cultural politics
urban demonstration sites
water catchment
Product details
- ISBN 9781478032571
- Weight: 445g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2025
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Architecture and the Right to Heal, Esra Akcan calls for architecture to take an active role in healing communities affected by socioeconomic, political, and environmental disasters. Akcan frames these processes by discussing buildings and spaces in relation to climate change mitigation and transitional justice. Focusing on lands held by the former Ottoman Empire, Akcan highlights the ongoing struggle to heal after internal social, state, and business-led violence ranging from enforced disappearance to mass extinction. Putting forth the concept of resettler nationalism as a source of displacement and partition, she argues that while architecture and urban planning have been weaponized to segregate and subjugate minorities throughout history, they could instead confront systemic violence and make accountability and reparations possible. For Akcan, healing constitutes a matter of rights as well as a holistic notion of justice that addresses the intersections of social, global and environmental issues, and one that can be achieved through architecture. By locating spaces of political and ecological harm, Akcan advocates for healing on individual, communal, and planetary levels.
Esra Akcan is Professor of Architecture at Cornell University and author of Architecture in Translation: Germany, Turkey, and the Modern House, also published by Duke University Press, Open Architecture: Migration, Citizenship and the Urban Renewal of Berlin-Kreuzberg by IBA 1984/87, and Abolish Human Bans: Intertwined Histories of Architecture.
