Fr. 236.00

View From the Traveller Site - Architecture That Begins Where the House Ends

English · Hardback

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'Traveller-specific' architecture in Ireland and permanently 'temporary' sites in the UK embody an insoluble contradiction - as systems of control, policing and strategic neglect, and as a cultural right, an alternative to housing that recognizes the dignity of choice.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1 ‘Gypsy’, Site and House
2 The Genealogy of the ‘g/Gypsy’
3 The Inquiry
4 The Camp
5 Hiding the Evidence
6 Towards ‘Traveller-Specific’ Architecture
7 Birthing the Site
8 The Work of the Grave: “We all have dead people”
9 “We are Travellers, but not like our Parents”
10 Dolly, Dolliness and the Site
11 Interagency and Resistance

About the author










Anna Hoare is an independent researcher who holds a PhD in Anthropology from University College London. Her recent works include a UN CERD Shadow Report on Ireland, an online mapping project and exhibition titled: Mapping the Histories of London's Travellers, (a collaboration with NGO London Gypsies and Travellers and Mapping for Change) that has been shown across London, including at City Hall and the Houses of Parliament, and the Wardley Street Project.


Summary

‘Traveller-specific’ architecture in Ireland and permanently ‘temporary’ sites in the UK embody an insoluble contradiction - as systems of control, policing and strategic neglect, and as a cultural right, an alternative to housing that recognizes the dignity of choice.

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