Spaces of Aid: How Cars, Compounds and Hotels Shape Humanitarianism

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About the Author
Title
Copyright
Contents
Figures
Note to the Reader
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
	The Argument
	Methodology
	The Structure
1: Stories from the Field, Stories of ‘The Field’: How Aid Workers Experience the Space of the Field Mission
	Aid Work as Rite of Passage
	Liminal Spaces, Affective Constraints
	Conclusion: Setting the Stage
2: Exploring the Humanitarian Enclave
	Perceptions of Insecurity Among Aid Workers
	The Evolution of Physical Securitization in the Field
	The Compound as the New Archetype of Humanitarianism
	Conclusion
3: How the Built Environment Shapes Humanitarian Intervention
	How the Material Matters: A Framework for Analysis
	Auxiliary Space
	The Impact on ‘Others’
	The Impact on the Aid Workers: Gated Communities
	Sport Utility Vehicles
	The Grand Hotel
	Conclusion
4: Building Home Away from Home: Post-Tsunami Aceh, and the Single-Family House
	Mapping the ‘Second Tsunami’
	The Single-Family House
	The Gift of the House
	The House as Commodity
	From Donors to Contractors
5: Playing House: Rebuilding the Gulf Coast after Katrina
	The Appeal of the Blank Slate
	Make It Right or Making It Wrong: The Solution of Green Architecture in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth
	Imagined Communities: New Urbanism and the Post-Katrina Gulf Coast
	The Katrina Cottage: Emblem of the Reconstruction
	A Shotgun Reconstruction
Conclusion
	A Tripartite Model of Space
	Implications for Theory and Policy
	Future Research Directions
Bibliography
Index
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