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Drawing on the spatial and discursive practices of Ciumara Ranni in squatting and activating abandoned land, this paper borrows knowledge from the ecovillage experience as an alternative way to land reviving and building restoration beyond state monopoly and tax reliance. It also questions how we can utilise the ontological understanding of the concept of dignity in the process of inhabiting the land and the common places beyond modernism and into active participation. By putting the embodiment of dignity and its performativity at the centre of the human-land relation, this paper aims to articulate and propose a definition of the term land dignity and its meaningful role in spatial studies, restoration, and social housing policies.
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Abusalem, H. (2023). Land Dignity—Learning from Squatting Movement. In: Hilal, S., Bedir, M., Ramsgaard Thomsen, M., Tamke, M. (eds) Design for Partnerships for Change. UIA 2023. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36993-3_11
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