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Scroope - Issue 1

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33

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1

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2024-12

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Journal ISSN

0966-1026

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Journal Volume
Scroope - Volume 33
(33)

Articles

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Front Matter
(2024-12-31) Frayne, Nicholas; Chow, Jerry
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Foreword
(2024-12-31) Samuel, Flora
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Between Ship and Sea and Shore: Spatial Practices from the Black Pacific
(2024-12-31) Collins, Caroline Imani; Yang, K. Wayne
This article describes Black spatial practices of Black mariners involved with merchant and colonial activities in the Pacific during the Age of Sail and shortly thereafter. Building from a Black geographies framework we map a critical geography, which we summarize as the Black ship, the Black sea, and the Black shore. This analysis highlights how many of these mariners deployed spatial knowledges to turn spaces of seeming enclosure into vehicles of agency and opportunity. We then close with a provocation, considering whether a critical architecture can make transparent the sometimes colluding, sometimes colliding, often contradictory authorities over Black life.
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Worship at the Margins: On Violence, Enclosures, and the Reformed Church of Paris (1555–1562)
(2024-12-31) Joashi, Tom
This essay traces the brief history of the Reformed Church of Paris through the socio-spatial experiences of its members. Using Oren Yiftachel’s concept of ‘gray space’ as an analytical framework, it examines how the community navigated marginalization and violent persecution under Catholic urban dominance. The essay highlights key locations described in contemporary Protestant literature, including prison cells, private homes, and the grassy Parisian suburbs. It is argued that though the Protestant community was ultimately unable to overcome their enclosures, they found ways to reinterpret their marginalization nonetheless, drawing strength and agency from their constrained circumstances.
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Description

The contributors to the 33rd issue of Scroope take the decolonial conception of disenclosure as a provocation to be articulated, contested, and extended through architectural thinking. Whether through critical explorations of maritime space, design praxes, humanitarian architecture, or labour in the profession, the articles collected here each challenge the discipline we share, and suggest alternative ways of both making and seeing architecture. Taken as a whole, these incisive, hopeful, and at times experimental essays draw our attention to the potential for moments of passage to emerge from even the most enclosing of spaces.

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