DDRIG: The Popular Reconstruction of an Urban City Following a Disaster

这项研究的重点是流离失所者的生产的栖息地和权利，以获得城市资源在一个历史街区的城市首都。2010年地震后，许多非政府组织和联合国机构为受地震影响的人提供了设计最低的临时住所。然而，许多人拒绝住在这些危险的营地，而是自己解决住房问题。在城市的老城区内和周围移动，人们开始谈判他们获得饮用水或电力等资源的权利以及使用公共空间的权利。一些流离失所者搬进了被列入世界古迹观察名单的无人居住的房屋。如果他们似乎能够通过谈判获得在这些房屋中居住的权利，那么他们定居点的稳定性就会受到许多非政府组织在这一社区建立大本营的新的排斥性空间安排的威胁。主要研究问题是：在这些房屋中建造住宅的过程中，有哪些因素和愿望，反过来，这些空间实践在多大程度上受到建筑环境的影响，反映了殖民地的过去，阶级冲突的残酷历史和人道主义行为者的无处不在？使用摄影，访谈和参与性绘图，这项研究跟踪居民的文化习俗，通过他们使用的建筑环境。这一调查旨在探索历史房屋向住宅的转变，以了解权利和归属空间产生的本土基础。使用与殖民化和对大众的压迫相呼应的物质文化元素值得认真关注，因为它代表了对灾害的普遍反应，其中产生了对未来的富有成效的愿景。 作为博士论文研究改进奖，该项目将提供支持，使有前途的学生建立一个独立的研究生涯。

This research focuses on displaced persons' production of habitat and rights to access urban resources in an historic district of an urban capital. After an earthquake in 2010, many NGOs and UN agencies provided minimally designed temporary shelters to people affected by the earthquake. However, many people refused to live in these hazardous camps and, instead, implemented housing solutions of their own. Moving in and around the old districts of the city, people started to negotiate their access to resources such as potable water or electricity and their right to use public space. Some displaced persons moved into unoccupied houses which are included on the World Monument Watch List. If they seem to be able to negotiate their right to stay in these houses, the stability of their settlements is threatened by new exclusionary spatial arrangements built by the many NGOs which established their base camps in this neighborhood. The main research question is: What are the imaginaries and aspirations embedded in the production of dwellings in these houses and, in turn, to what extent are these spatial practices shaped by a built environment echoing the colonial past, a brutal history of class conflicts and the omnipresence of humanitarian actors?Using photography, interviews and participatory mapping, this research tracks the cultural practices of inhabitants through their use of built environments. This inquiry seeks to explore the transformation of the historical houses into dwellings to understand the vernacular basis for the production of rights and spaces of belonging. The use of elements of a material culture echoing the colonization, oppression of the masses warrants serious attention as it presents a popular response to disasters in which fruitful visions for the future arise. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this project will provide support to enable a promising student to establish an independent research career.