Producing Neighbourhood/Spaces
摘要
This chapter explores the constellation of neighbourhood space, circulating around the residential areas of the camp. Using a neighbourhood triptych (material site, social collective, space of meaning), this chapter explores how broader social groupings (‘We formations’) interacted with material space, and how these spaces in turn facilitated the reproduction of specific social units/webs of social relations. This chapter traces the three-pronged production of a Kurdish neighbourhood within the camp, its role in expressing/sustaining a collective identity, in demarcating and maintaining this particular ‘We formation’. However, the processes and practices implicated in the production of the Kurdish neighbourhood/‘We formation’ also produced something of a ‘They’ formation, an Other. In the context of the camp, this We-Them dynamic was played out between Kurdish and Arab residents; inter-ethnic relations were marked by periodic outbursts of violence between men. I have therefore foregrounded the role of masculinities, and explored the interplay between territory, violence and male bodies in the camp environment. The third and final ‘We formation’ present in the camp in 2019 was composed of African residents; this chapter concludes with an analysis of the contours and frictions of this particular social grouping, their collective minority status in the camp and the marginalisation/discrimination this entailed.