Altering Practices: Feminist Politics and Poetics of Space

by Petrescu; Doina

• ISBN13: 9780415357852
• ISBN10: 0415357853
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This collection of essays offers a fresh overview of contemporary feminist practices, with particular emphasis on the politics and poetics of space. With the growing importance of technology and communications, the effects of globalisation and the change in social demands, feminist praxis of space is diversifying and expanding. This book assesses these altering practices alongside the emergence of new social and political theories and within today's urban and geopolitical contexts.

Table of Contents

Notes on the contributors	p. vii
Foreword: from Alterities and beyond	p. xiii
Altering practices	p. 1
Taking place and altering it	p. 15
Evaluating Matrix: notes from inside the collective	p. 39
An invisible privilege	p. 57
How to take place (but only for so long)	p. 69
Building while being in it: notes on drawing 'otherhow'	p. 89
Stray Sods: eight dispositions on 'the feminine', space and writing	p. 113
Micro-strategies of resistance	p. 125
Altering events in architecture	p. 141
Urban curating: a critical practice towards greater 'connectedness'	p. 153
Open Kitchen or 'cookery architecture'	p. 167
Building clouds, drifting walls	p. 189
Urban traces: civic performance art and memory in public space	p. 201
Sex & Space: space / gender / economy	p. 213
Refiguring dis/embodiments	p. 241
Stabat Mater: on standing in for matter	p. 259
The unbearable being of lightness	p. 281
Learning and building in the feminine	p. 297
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