Beyond the Sea-Land Divide: A World Map

This political map of the world depicts the extent of territories, both on land and at sea (submerged lands), that are under the control of all independent nations. The boundaries shown combine national borders with their respective Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) but exclude the world’s coastlines. EEZs are areas defined by international law as maritime territories lying within 200 nautical miles perpendicular to the coast and delimited by international treaties. The marine borders used in this map are based on a geometric projection of the maritime boundaries depicted by the Flanders Marine Institute (http://www.marineregions.org/eez.php). This map is not to be taken as the endorsement of one claim over another

From Symbolic Violence to Symbolic Reparation Strengthening Resilience and Reparation in Conflict-Affected Areas through Place-(re)making. Examples of the West Bank and Colombia

Based on examples of the West Bank and central Colombia, this paper investigates how in conflict settings, symbolic violence affects populations and on their perception of place, lifestyle and culture. It also looks at the potential of space and place-making to enhance conflict transformation and resilience by strengthening the sense of place and symbolic reparation. In extreme environments, symbolic violence has become a means of actively imposing social or symbolic domination which can be challenged by community-based peace-building and place-making initiatives

The Irrational Life of Architecture

Podczas gdy architekci starają się tworzyć nowe formy w swoich projektach, odbiór architektury przez użytkowników pozostaje w dużej mierze zależny od identyfikacji tego, co znane. Esej analizuje sposoby, w jakie znajomość określa formalne upodobania i metafory używane do pośredniczenia i „dostępu” do mniej znanej formy architektonicznej.While architects seek to create new forms for their designs, the reception of architecture by its users remains largely reliant on identifying the familiar. The essay examines the ways in which familiarity establishes formal preferences and the metaphors used to mediate and ‘access’ the less familiar architectural form

Prison Israel-Palestine: Literalities of Criminalization and Imaginative Resistance

This article offers a reflection on the Palestinian experience of imprisonment. It begins by addressing the settler logic of criminalization and goes on to identify how this criminalization extends to the systematic thwarting of resistance. In engaging with different kinds of prison writing and art, it further explores the relationship between the literality of imprisonment and the imagination as a question of collective consciousness