Publisher's Synopsis
"In Architecture and the Right to Heal, Esra Akcan explores architecture's role in the healing processes that take place following socioeconomic, political, and environmental disasters. Akcan frames these processes by discussing buildings and spaces in relation to climate change and transitional aspects of justice and energy. Focusing on lands held by the former Ottoman Empire, Akcan highlights the ongoing struggle to heal after internal social, state, and business-led violence. She puts forth the concept of resettler nationalism as a source of displacement and partition, also arguing that while architecture and urban planning have been weaponized to segregate and subjugate minorities throughout history, they should instead be used to confront systemic violence and make healing possible. By locating spaces of political and ecological harm, Akcan advocates for the right to heal in response to the effects of colonialism, calling for heali
