Forensic Architecture

Weizman, Eyal

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“…Before-and-after photographs are powerful forms of evidence, in part because their use extends beyond visual cultures of removal. The juxtaposition of images across time is a ubiquitous visual language that has shaped contemporary imaginations of how events unfold – with the event always missing from the picture (Weizman and Weizman, 2015). This language works by creating bounded ‘before’ and ‘after’ worlds, where successful transformations become possible and measurable.…”

Section: Re-assembling a Stockpilementioning

confidence: 99%

Toxic sights: The spectacle of hazardous waste removal

Balayannis

2020

Environ Plan D

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This paper examines the geographies of hazardous waste removal. Over the past decade, studies of disposal have demonstrated the myriad ways in which things can never disappear – they can only be transformed, transmuted, combusted, combined or any other manner of material change. This paper aims to develop understandings of the material politics of disposal by considering the matter of representation. It does this ethnographically, by following a chemical stockpile though the process of removal from its storage site in Tanzania. In examining everyday disposal practices, this paper highlights the materialities of hazardous waste in ways that have been epistemologically side-lined. Locating the analysis at the intersection of matter and representation, the paper illustrates the centrality of paper-work, diagrams, photographs and standard operating procedures in performing removal. It argues that removal is achieved through a bureaucratic spectacle; a process which obscures lingering residues and compounds their toxic effects. By attending to chemicals through the mundane work of removal, this paper opens up different lines of inquiry for studies of waste, and enriches understandings of materiality by considering how visual representations make a difference.

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Section: Re-assembling a Stockpilementioning

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Toxic sights: The spectacle of hazardous waste removal

Balayannis

2020

Environ Plan D

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“…This opens up an exciting new opportunity to integrate the practices of urban archaeology, with built environment analysis something which Weizman (2012), with his ‘forensic architecture’ approach, has pioneered. Similarly, Bartolini (2013, 2014) employs the geological concept of ‘brecciation’ to examine the importance of how materials from the past and present are juxtaposed and entangled in contemporary urbanism.…”

Section: The Stratigraphic Interpretation Of Citiesmentioning

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The volumetric city

McNeill

2019

Progress in Human Geography

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This paper sets out a research agenda for the interrogation of urban space as being ontologically constituted by its volumetric properties: that is, the ways in which the arrangement of dimensions and capacities above, below and in relation to the surface of the city are measured. The paper reviews the nascent ‘volumetric turn’ in explaining the production of urban space, noting the growing interest among scholars in understanding how verticality, surface, and the subterranean relate to the power and political economy of cities.

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“…In the aftermath of the conflicts, blockaded cities and towns were either partially destroyed by cannon fire or bulldozed and cleansed of “terrorists,” becoming the dead cities and buildings as cadavers of forensic architecture (Weizman, 2012) that prove these war crimes were not randomly executed. Like elsewhere (see, e.g., Weizman, 2007, on the Israeli conduct of war in Palestinian cities), “bulldozing has been used as a weapon of collective and individual punishment and intimidation, and as a means of shaping the geopolitical configuration of territory” (Weizman, 2004, as cited in Graham, 2004, p. 197).…”

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Border as “Zone of Indistinction”: The State of Exception and the Spectacle of Terror Along Turkey’s Border With Syria

Tuncer

2017

Space and Culture

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Turkey’s border with Syria today is a laboratory in which biopolitics and the spectacle coincide in new ways. As a consequence of the ongoing war between the state and Kurdish insurgents, and the state of emergency accompanying it, this border region has incrementally transformed into a “zone of indistinction” in which the spatial concepts of inside and outside interpenetrate. As exception is normalized, the logic of “the camp” (in Agamben’s sense) tends to become a dispositif. Exceptional routines are being exercised in this border region both to (re)construct the figure of the “Kurd” as a citizen and to generalize the domain of the camp, while also producing bare life in the context of counterterrorism. However, the “Kurd” as a subject cannot be ambiguously constructed, neither can the region be politically homogenized. Based on multisited fieldwork in the border city of Mardin, I claim that this zone of indistinction is simultaneously the place of revolt and resistance for the Kurdish case. Against this backdrop, the article argues the practical implications of counterterrorism policies in the region by focusing on how the state of exception is enforced on the Kurdish population as a biopolitical tool while being represented as a public spectacle to the rest of Turkey.

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Forensic Architecture

Cited by 326 publications

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Toxic sights: The spectacle of hazardous waste removal

Toxic sights: The spectacle of hazardous waste removal

The volumetric city

Border as “Zone of Indistinction”: The State of Exception and the Spectacle of Terror Along Turkey’s Border With Syria

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