Via Architecture: Post-Conflict Infrastructure and its Discursive Curve

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  • Harshavardhan Bhat Independent Researcher

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https://doi.org/10.5334/sta.fr

Abstract

Post-conflict economy, rapid urbanization and the ever influential impact of global flows often drive very particular systems of post-conflict infrastructure, ignoring nuances of culture, politics and community. While a large number of analysts today contend that this is a growing symptom of the post-conflict economy, there has arguably always been a fundamental relationship between political articulation and architectural futures. The purpose of this paper is not to provide another planning parallax but to provoke the reader to reconsider habitat intervention within reconciliatory platforms and political developments today. Using the case of Kigali, Rwanda this paper seeks to pose both analytical and ethical questions. Firstly, can international development mediate with politics to engage with post-conflict habitats, considering complex backgrounds? Secondly, how does this challenge conventional thinking in planning and organization schemes that have largely driven habitat response and development in post-conflict spaces?

Author Biography

Harshavardhan Bhat, Independent Researcher

Harshavardhan Bhat is a Bangalore based Researcher currently Lead at the criticality.is project. Previously he was a Research Fellow with CALACS (Africa Studies Cluster Lead) at the Jindal School of International Affairs and a KN Raj Fellow at the Centre for Development Studies – Trivandrum. He is currently interested in the study of violence, habitats, political systems and strategic policy. He is a Graduate of the London School of Economics and has previously worked on private external advisory projects serving Government of Rwanda’s communications agendas.

 

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Published

2015-04-29

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Vol. 4 No. 1 (2015)

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