Journal article
Building a bed for the night: The Parisian 'Yellow Bubble' and the politics of humanitarian architecture
- Abstract:
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The past decade has seen the expansion of architecture with an explicitly humanitarian purpose. This article examines the politics and functions of this movement by looking in detail at the humanitarian center at Porte de la Chapelle in Paris (the “Yellow Bubble”). Based on in-depth interviews and participant observation during 2017, the article shows how the center provided migrants with a bed for the night while at the same time serving the political imperative to clear informal settlements...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ Economic and Social Research Council
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Funder identifier:
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000269
Grant:
ES/P005004/1
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- University of Pennsylvania Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Humanity Journal website
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 317-331
- Publication date:
- 2020-12-17
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-06-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2151-4372
- ISSN:
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2151-4364
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- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
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1118804
- Local pid:
- pubs:1118804
- Deposit date:
- 2020-07-15
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- Copyright holder:
- University of Pennsylvania Press.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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