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OUTLAW TERRITORIES

Felicity D. Scott

Environments of Insecurity/Architectures of Counterinsurgency

Outlaw Territories: Environments of Insecurity/Architectures of Counterinsurgency traces the relations of architecture and urbanism to forms of human unsettlement and territorial insecurity during the 1960s and '70s. Investigating a set of responses to the growing urban unrest in the developed and developing worlds, Outlaw Territories revisits an era when the discipline of architecture staked out a role in global environmental governance and the biopolitical management of populations. Felicity D. Scott demonstrates how architecture engaged the displacement of persons brought on by migration, urbanization, environmental catastrophe, and warfare, and at the same time how it responded to the material, environmental, psychological, and geopolitical transformations brought on by postindustrial technologies and neoliberal capitalism after World War II.

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Book Published 2016-04-01 by Zone Books

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In Felicity Scott's critically game-changing study, securitas - a great political philology of the times, denoting the risk society, the society of care, of sovereign borders, surveillant skies, and fortress architecture - is posed against outlaw territories and countercultural settlement movements in the wake of the Cold War. Scott gives us a way to think the politics of architecture as a new environmentality. Essential reading for anyone with activist stakes in the contemporary history of insurgent habitats and militarized space. ---Emily Apter, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, NYU, and author of Against World Literature: On The Politics of Untranslatability

Like an antidote to amnesia, Scott's meticulous, granular research vividly recreates the political weather of the 1970s. Here is a sidelined architecture history that returns as a missing link - eccentric stories in the emerging development of those networks, technologies, media and advocacies of global governance that are of most consequence today. The episodes in Outlaw Territories, laced with issues of militarism, security and environment, are rehearsals for urgent spatial activism in the present. ---Keller Easterling, Professor, Yale University, author of Extrastatecraft: the Power of Infrastructure Space