Author Archives: Juanita Sundberg

Border sands: policing in the Sonoran Desert

By Juanita Sundberg 11 October 2023 Essays

The soils of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona reveal both historical and ongoing colonial violence along the US‑Mexico border

Reciprocal flows across the Mexico-US border

12 May 2022 By Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz

Despite the increasingly militarised border, urban patterns and architectural material move freely between…

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Nuclear powers: France’s atomic bomb tests in the Algerian Sahara

23 June 2022 By Samia Henni

Nuclear bomb tests carried out by the French colonial regime in the…

Colonial settlement of Fremantle, depicted by Philip Chauncy

Unceded land, unpublic use: settler colonial construction on stolen land

28 July 2022 By Timmah Ball

The settler colonial construction of public space is contested in the context…

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Oil in one: sand greens and grass greens in Bahrain

20 October 2022 By Ali Karimi

Despite its context of colonial extraction, Bahrain’s first sand golf course demonstrates…

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Editorial: just deserts

3 October 2023 By Manon Mollard, Eleanor Beaumont and Kristina Rapacki

In its October issue, The Architectural Review finds the world’s deserts to…

A 1375 atlas of the mediterannean region, drawn in colour on parchment

Experimental Saharanism: exploiting desert environments

5 October 2023 By Brahim El Guabli

The perception of deserts as spaces devoid of life has justified exploitation…

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Bill of health: PAMS clinic in Newman, Australia by Kaunitz Yeung Architecture

9 October 2023 By Rory Hyde

Kaunitz Yeung Architecture’s health centre in Newman in Australia provides culturally safe…

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