ABSTRACT
This chapter assembles a number of architectures found in specific territories, each of which have been oscillating between exploitation, conflict and nature preservation. The difficult genealogies of these territories result in elastic architectures, serving as dispositions for fluid practices. The concrete case studies addressed in this paper comprise architectures within preservation areas in Sweden, Croatia, Mozambique and Russia. Situated in territories that have radically shifted from being conflict zones to contact zones, and vice versa, they are determined by macro-practices, by macro-narratives and by macro-policies. Deeply immersed in the dispositions of the past, these architectures are functionalised in their current environments, in turn affecting the micro-practices and micro-narratives that traverse these sites.
