UID:
almahu_9949384132102882
Format:
1 online resource (xix, 308 pages)
ISBN:
9780203729717
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0203729714
,
9781351396196
,
1351396196
,
9781138304871
,
1138304875
,
9781138304888
,
1138304883
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9781351396202
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135139620X
,
9781351396219
,
1351396218
Series Statement:
Critiques : Critical Studies in Architectural Humanities ; Volume 13
Content:
Set against the background of a general crisis' that is environmental, political and social, this book examines a series of specific intersections between architecture and feminisms, understood in the plural. The collected essays and projectsthat make up the book follow transversal trajectories that criss-cross between ecologies, economies and technologies, exploring specific cases and positions in relation to the themes of the archive, control, work and milieu. This collective intellectual labour can be located amidst a worldwide depletion of material resources, a hollowing out of political power and the degradation of constructed and natural environments. Feminist positions suggest ways of ethically coping with a world that is becoming increasingly unstable and contested. The many voices gathered here are united by the task of putting critical concepts and feminist design tools to use in order to offer experimental approaches to the creation of a more habitable world. Drawing inspiration from the active archives of feminist precursors, existing and re-imagined, and by way of a re-engagement in the histories, theories and projected futures of critical feminist projects, the book presents a collection of twenty-three essays and eight projects, with the aim of taking stock of our current condition and re-engaging in our precarious environment-worlds.
Note:
Part, Archive --
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chapter Introduction Architecture and feminisms --
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Ecologies, economies, technologies /
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chapter 1 Feminist theory and praxis, 1991-2003 --
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Questions from the archive /
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chapter Project 1 Searching for cyborgs /
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chapter 2 The role played by women linked to the CIAM --
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The case of Frieda Fluck, 1897-1974 /
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chapter 3 A feminist in disguise? --
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Sibyl Moholy-Nagy's histories of architecture and the environment /
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chapter Project 2 Overpainting that jostles /
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chapter 4 The architect as shopper --
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Women, electricity, building products and the interwar 'proprietary turn' in the UK /
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chapter 5 Between landscape and confinement --
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Situating the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft /
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part, Control --
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chapter 6 Remodelling the Führer --
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Hitler's domestic spaces as propaganda /
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chapter 7 Architectural preservation as taxidermy --
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Patriarchy and boredom /
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chapter Project 3 A cortege of ghostly bodies --
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Abstraction, prothesis, and the logic of the mannequin /
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chapter 8 Subaltern bodies in the digital urban imaginary /
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chapter 9 Digital technology and the safety of women and girls in urban space --
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Personal safety Apps or crowd-sourced activism tools? /
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chapter 10 Machinic architectural ecologies --
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An uncertain ground /
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chapter Project 4 Gender and anonymous peer review /
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chapter 11 In captivity --
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The real estate of co-living /
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part, Milieu --
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chapter 12 Material and rational feminisms --
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A contribution to humane architectures /
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chapter Project 5 Slow watch: A sci-fi novel about the ecology of time in the society of fear /
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chapter 13 Academic capitalism in architecture schools --
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A feminist critique of employability, 24/7 work and entrepreneurship /
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chapter 14 Environmentalising humanitarian governance in Za'atri Refugee Camp through 'interactive spaces' --
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A posthuman approach /
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chapter 15 Feminisms in conflict --
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'Feminist urban planning' in Husby, Sweden /
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chapter 16 Abandoned architectures --
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Some dirty narratives /
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chapter Project 6 Infrastructural love /
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chapter 17 Diverse economies, ecologies and practices of urban commoning /
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part, Work --
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chapter 18 Reproductive commons --
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From within and beyond the kitchen /
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chapter Project 7 The kitchen of Praxagora -- Turning the private and public inside out /
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chapter 19 The critical potential of housework /
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chapter 20 The garage --
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Maintenance and gender /
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chapter Project 8 Fatima's shop: A kind of homeplace /
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chapter 21 Invisibility work? --
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How starting from dis/ability challenges normative social, spatial and material practices /
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chapter 22 On the critiques --
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Abortion clinics /
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chapter 23 The entrepreneurial self /
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781138304871
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9780203729717
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203729717
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