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JAE 77:2 Fall 2023

Deserts

October 11, 2023
Theme Editors
Ersela Kripa
Texas Tech University - El Paso
El Paso, TX
Francesco Marullo
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL
Stephen Mueller
Texas Tech University
October 11, 2023
Current and Past Issues
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Introductions
There Is No Distance Between Ourselves and Our Deserts
Nora Wendl
Deserts
Ersela Kripa, Francesco Marullo, & Stephen Mueller
Othered Imaginaries
Cactus Obsession
Ivan L. Munuera
Visualizing the Desert: Karl S. Twitchell and the Environmental Imaginaries of the Saudi Arabian Desert, 1936-48
Dalal Musaed Alsayer
The Desert Has Everything: Episodes in Praise of Dryness
Faysal Tabbarah
Tactical Landscapes: Abstractions and Power Practices
Yousef Awaad Hussein, Asaiel Al Saeed, Saphiya Abu Al-Maati & Aseel AlYaqoub
Proxied Imaginaries
Desert Dreams and Techno-Utopian Nightmares: The Complex History of California City and the Colonial Gaze Towards the Desert
Ezgi İşbilen
Model Desert, Sandbox Monument
Tamar Zinguer
Tracking Across the American Desert: Filmic Translations of American Landscapes to the Helmand Valley and Back
Andy Lee
Man Made: DuPont and Desert Development in Iran, 1974-79
Gabrielle Printz
In Conversation with Brahim El Guabli
Ersela Kripa, Francesco Marullo & Stephen Mueller
Edible Imaginaries
The Desert We Eat
Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich & Seth Denizen
Conquest(s) of the Desert
Dante Furioso
Food Desert: Feeding the Regional Economic Imaginary
Patty Heyda
In Conversation with Menna Agha
Ersela Kripa, Francesco Marullo & Stephen Mueller
Recorded Imaginaries
Repertoire as Infrastructure for Architectural Historiographical Crafts in the Sahrawi Refugee Camps
Julien Lafontaine Carboni
Desert Depths: Multivalent Architectural Narratives of Belonging in the Negev/Naqab Desert
Piper Bernbaum & Zach Colbert
Dry Matters: Speculations for an Arid Future
Danika Cooper
In Conversation with Gonzalo Pimentel
Ersela Kripa, Francesco Marullo & Stephen Mueller
Inhabited Imaginaries
Displacements of Mohammed Abdalah During His Life: Transformations of Western Sahara after the Spanish Colony
Alvaro Velasco Perez
Mirages of Emptiness in Samburu, North Central Kenya
Brendan O’Neill & Samantha L. Martin
The Sheikh’s Castle: Architecture as Control in Jordan’s Southern Desert
Margaret Freeman
In Conversation with Salima Naji
Ersela Kripa, Francesco Marullo & Stephen Mueller