e-flux Architecture
Positions
03/22
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Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi is an architectural historian at
Barnard College, Columbia University. Her work centers
African and South Asian questions of migration, archives,
heritage politics, and feminist and colonial practices. She
is writing the book manuscripts Architecture of Migration:
The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian
Settlement (Duke University Press, forthcoming) and
Minnette de Silva and a Modern Architecture of the Past,
and co-editing Feminist Architectural Histories of
Migration(in the online platforms ABE, CCA, Aggregate,
2019-2022). She directs the Columbia University working
group Insurgent Domesticities and works with the
GoDown Arts Centre in Nairobi.
Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar is a twentieth century
historian at Brown University, with a focus on
decolonization, displacement, war, non-violence, the visual
archive and contemporary art. She is the author of The
Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia:
Refugees, Boundaries, Histories(Columbia University
Press, 2007) and a part of the Decolonial Initiative on
Migration of Objects and People. Her recent writing
includes “Towards a Radical Practice of History: When
Can History Repair?” (Verso blog) and “Borderlanders: A
Political Concept for Repair” (in Repair, Routledge,
2022), and is presently working on, amongst other
things, a graphic novel with Sarnath Banerjee.
Positions is an independent initiative of e-flux
Architecture.
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