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Colonial and imperial powers have often portrayed arid lands as "empty" spaces ready to be occupied, exploited, extracted, and polluted. Despite the undeniable presence of human and nonhuman lives and forces in desert territories, the "regime of emptiness" has inhabited, and is still inhabiting, many imaginaries. 'Deserts Are Not Empty' challenges this colonial tendency, questions its roots and ramifications, and remaps the representations, theories, histories, and stories of arid lands--which comprise approximately one-third of the Earth's land surface. The volume brings together poems in original languages, conversations with collectives, and essays by scholars and professionals from the fields of architecture, architectural history and theory, curatorial studies, comparative literature, film studies, landscape architecture, and photography. These different approaches and diverse voices draw on a framework of decoloniality to unsettle and unlearn the desert, opening up possibilities to see, think, imagine it otherwise.

Colonialism and architecture. --- Deserts. --- Imperialism and architecture. --- Deserts --- Arid regions --- Decolonization in literature --- Decolonization in art --- Land use, Rural --- Attitude change --- Exploitation --- Contempt (Attitude) --- Government policy. --- Déserts --- Régions arides --- Décolonisation dans la littérature --- Décolonisation dans l'art --- Utilisation agricole du sol --- Exploitation (Morale) --- Mépris --- Politique gouvernementale

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Of all of the Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer’s many built works, his Algerian projects are among the least well known. Beginning in 1968, Algeria’s President Houari Boumediene commissioned Niemeyer to build two universities and an Olympic sports hall, as well as a series of large-scale, never-realized projects across Algeria, in an attempt to forge a modernist, independent nation. In 2013, Jason Oddy produced an in-depth photographic survey of these buildings as they exist in Algeria today. The Revolution Will Be Stopped Halfway collects those images alongside archival documents and Oddy’s further research into Niemeyer’s Algerian work in order to explore the revolutionary politics that inspired and formed these buildings.

Modern movement (Architecture) --- College buildings --- 72.07 --- Niemeyer, Oscar °1907 (°Rio De Janeiro, Brazilië) --- Modernisme --- Algerije --- Universities and colleges --- University buildings --- College facilities --- School buildings --- Modernism (Architecture) --- Modernist architecture --- Architecture, Modern --- International style (Architecture) --- Political aspects --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z --- Buildings --- Niemeyer, Oscar, --- Niemeyer Soares, Oscar, --- Niemeyer Soares Filho, Oscar, --- Nimeĭer, Oskar, --- Soares Filho, Oscar Niemeyer, --- Filho, Oscar Niemeyer Soares, --- Soares, Ribeiro de Almeida, --- Almeida Soares, Ribeiro de, --- Нимейер, Оскар, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Architectuur ; Algerije ; 20ste eeuw ; O. Niemeyer --- Niemeyer, Oscar 1907-2012 (°Rio De Janeiro, Brazilië) --- Mouvement moderne (architecture) --- Collèges --- Aspects politiques. --- Construction --- Niemeyer, Oscar --- Critique et interprétation. --- 72.036 --- 727.3 --- 725.85 --- 20ste eeuw (architectuur) --- Twintigste eeuw (architectuur) --- Modernisme (architectuur) --- Modernistische architectuur --- Universiteiten (architectuur) --- Universiteitsgebouwen --- Sportstadia --- Algeria --- Collèges --- Critique et interprétation

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Lorsqu'en 1962 l'Algérie accède à son indépendance, la population hérite d'un espace façonné pendant 132 ans par l'architecture de l'État colonial français. De façon inédite dans l'histoire, un peuple va concrètement habiter l’indépendance, en investissant massivement un environnement bâti pour l’exclure, voire lui nuire. Ancré plus particulièrement à Alger, cet ouvrage revient sur les conditions d’une expérimentation urbaine et questionne la composante coloniale de l'architecture et de son enseignement, au fil du temps, dans les corpus français comme algériens. Fruit d'une réflexion collective transdisciplinaire qui ose aborder des sujets peu traités, de l'architecture carcérale à la trajectoire de la statuaire coloniale, cette exploration critique de l'aménagement d'Alger entend mettre en lumière les pratiques de la ville par les personnes qui l'habitent.

Architecture --- Architecture, Algerian colonial --- City planning --- Architecture, French colonial --- History. --- Urbanisme --- Architecture coloniale française --- Histoire --- Architecture coloniale --- Postcolonialisme --- Logement --- Participation des citoyens

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Between 1960 and 1966, the French colonial regime detonated four atmospheric atomic bombs, thirteen underground nuclear bombs and conducted other nuclear experiments in the Algerian Sahara, whose natural resources were being extracted in the process. This secret nuclear weapons programme, whose archives are still classified, occurred during and after the Algerian Revolution, or the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62). This publication brings together nearly six hundred pages of materials documenting this violent history of France's nuclear bomb programme in the Algerian desert. Meticulously culled together by the architectural historian from across available, offered, contraband, and leaked sources, the book is a rich repository for all those concerned with histories of nuclear weapons and engaged at the intersections of spatial, social and environmental justice, as well as anticolonial archival practices.

Nuclear weapons --- Colonialisme --- Energie nucléaire --- Destruction de site --- Risque technologique --- Fonds d'archives --- Désert --- Algérie --- France --- Radioactive pollution --- Testing --- History. --- Colonies.