This chapter explores the production of public spaces—the Main Street, the various camp businesses, NGO-managed sites, picnic benches, the football pitches, the mosque(s)—and examines the idea of a ‘camp public’. This chapter explores how these material spaces facilitated ‘camp cosmopolitanisms’, understood as interactions and exchanges between camp residents and Outsiders (non-residents), and between members of different ‘We formations’. Despite these examples of intermingling, many of these public spaces were captured or frequented by certain groups of residents. Instead of a public space in the singular, equally accessible and open to all, I explore the Main Street as a series of sāḥāt (pockets) defined by codes of inclusion and exclusion. These sāḥāt often centred around a commercial hub—cafés, bars, falafel shops and pool hall. I explore the processes and social relations that brought these spaces into being, and examine them both as seizure of the commons (as seen through a Marxist lens) and as a form of reappropriation of camp space.

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Producing Public/Spaces

  • Alex Tomas Fusco

摘要

This chapter explores the production of public spaces—the Main Street, the various camp businesses, NGO-managed sites, picnic benches, the football pitches, the mosque(s)—and examines the idea of a ‘camp public’. This chapter explores how these material spaces facilitated ‘camp cosmopolitanisms’, understood as interactions and exchanges between camp residents and Outsiders (non-residents), and between members of different ‘We formations’. Despite these examples of intermingling, many of these public spaces were captured or frequented by certain groups of residents. Instead of a public space in the singular, equally accessible and open to all, I explore the Main Street as a series of sāḥāt (pockets) defined by codes of inclusion and exclusion. These sāḥāt often centred around a commercial hub—cafés, bars, falafel shops and pool hall. I explore the processes and social relations that brought these spaces into being, and examine them both as seizure of the commons (as seen through a Marxist lens) and as a form of reappropriation of camp space.