Colonial and imperial powers have often portrayed arid lands as
“empty” spaces ready to be occupied, exploited, extracted, and
polluted. Despite the undeniable presence of human and nonhuman
lives and forces in desert territories, the “regime of
emptiness” has inhabited, and is still inhabiting, many
imaginaries. Deserts Are Not Empty challenges this colonial
tendency, questions its roots and ramifications, and remaps the
representations, theories, histories, and stories of arid
lands—which comprise approximately one-third of the Earth’s
land surface. The volume brings together poems in original
languages, conversations with collectives, and essays by scholars
and professionals from the fields of architecture, architectural
history and theory, curatorial studies, comparative literature,
film studies, landscape architecture, and photography. These
different approaches and diverse voices draw on a framework of
decoloniality to unsettle and unlearn the desert, opening up
possibilities to see, think, imagine it otherwise. With
contributions from Saphiya Abu Al-Maati, Menna Agha, Asaiel Al
Saeed, Aseel AlYaqoub, Yousef Awaad Hussein, Ariella Aïsha
Azoulay, Danika Cooper, Brahim El Guabli, Timothy Hyde, Jill
Jarvis, Bongani Kona, Dalal Musaed Alsayer, Observatoire des
armements, Francisco E. Robles, Paulo Tavares, Alla Vronskaya, and
XqSu.
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