Youth Teams and Reconstruction
Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Kefah Ahmed M. Najjar Why youth teams? The battles for the liberation of Mosul ended on 10 July 2017, when...
Kategorie: Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War
Baghdad Neighborhoods: Processes of Resilience against the Internally-reflected Conflict of 2006–2008
Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Namariq Al-Rawi Foucault described war as a force for generating and promoting new ways of living, and such interventions require...
War Emigration and its Impact on Post-War Reconstruction of Neighborhoods: A Case Study of Khorramshahr after the Iran-Iraq War
Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Mohammad Hassan Khani Wars force people to move from their homeland and to settle in new places far from the...
Beyond the Atomic Bombing: The Revival of Hiroshima’s Neighborhoods
Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Allam Al-Kazei More than seven decades have passed since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. When people look back...
“More Beautiful than Ever Before!” Neighborhood Rebuilding in Divided Germany as Political Propaganda during the Cold War
Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Paul Sigel Neighborhood Rebuilding in postwar Germany was not only confronted with the challenge of reconstruction of housing, infrastructure, industry...
The Reconstruction of Warsaw: Between Abhorrence and Acceptance
Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Piotr Korduba The post-war reconstruction of Warsaw was an unprecedented undertaking. As Jarosław Trybus, director of the Warsaw Museum, aptly...
Neighbors at War in 1975-77 Beirut
Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Mazen Haidar When it comes to retracing the urban history of Beirut, the long-established narrative often considers the war as...
Not Just Neo-Liberalism: Spontaneous Settlement and Violent Conflict in Homs, Syria
Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Kevin Mazur Predatory capitalism and central authorities’ acts of misrule feature prominently in accounts of contestation, violence, and reconstruction in...
The Importance of Being Earnest About Neighborhoods
An Introduction to the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Birgit Schäbler The blog series that is about to start with this contribution assembles the presentations of the 3-day...
