Sara Ahmed, “Home and Away: Narratives of Migration and Estrangement,” International Journal of Cultural Studies 2, no. 329 (1999): 341.
Huda Tayob, “Transnational Practices of Care and Refusal,” Coloniality of Infrastructure (e-flux Architecture, 2021), ➝.
Part of this essay will be published in Huda Tayob, “Transnational Home-making in Somali Malls: Cape Town and Minneapolis,” in The Urban Refugee, eds. Kivanç Kilinç and Bulent Batuman, (Bristol: Intellect Press, 2023). The drawings have previously been published in Huda Tayob, “Can Drawing ‘Tell’ a Different Story?,” Architecture and Culture 6, no. 1 (2018): 203–222; and Huda Tayob, “Drawing out Home-Making,” in Architecture and Feminisms, eds. Helene Frichot, Catharina Gabrielsson, and Helen Runting (London: Routledge Critique Series in Architectural Humanities), 265-269.
As I’ve written elsewhere, drawing is a means of drawing out and paying attention to these small spaces where the abundance of detail is apparent all at once. See Huda Tayob, “Opaque Infrastructures: Black Markets as Architectures of Care,” Public Culture 34, no. 3 (2022): 375-384.
Ahmed, “Home and Away,” 341.
Mary Douglas, “The Idea of a Home: A Kind of Space,” Social Research 58, no. 1 (1991): 287-307.
Tayob, “Transnational Practices of Care and Refusal.”
Asef Bayat, Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East (Redwood City: Stanford University Press), 57.
I have since heard that Old Karmel was demolished and a new structure is being built on the same site.
Interview with Hajra (Minneapolis, 2018); interview with Sara (Cape Town, 2016); interview with Abida (Minneapolis, 2018). See also where I have written about cross-border traders as an infrastructural system and cross-border trading networks among Somali malls, Huda Tayob, “Architecture-by-migrants: The Porous Architectures of Bellville,” Anthropology Southern Africa 42, no. 1 (2019): 46- 58.
Cawo Mohamed Abdi, Elusive Jannah: The Somali Diaspora and a Borderless Muslim Identity (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015), 8.
Jean Pierre Misago and Loren Landau, “Running Them out of Time: Xenophobia, Violence and co-Authoring Spatiotemporal Exclusion in South Africa,” Geopolitics 28, no. 4 (2022).
Tayob, “Transnational Practices of Care and Refusal.”
Lilian Chenwi and Kate Tissington, “'Sacrificial lambs' in the quest to eradicate informal settlements: The plight of Joe Slovo residents: Case Review,” Sabinet 10, no. 3 (2009).
Bayat, Life as Politics, 60.
Bayat, Life as Politics, 94.
Asef Bayat’s concept of “quiet encroachment” recognizes the importance of everyday and ordinary practices. Bayat, Life as Politics, 57.
Denise Ferreira da Silva, “Toward a Black Feminist Poethic” The Black Scholar 44, no. 2 (2014): 81-97.