Title & Author:

Altering practices : feminist politics and poetics of space / edited by Doina Petrescu.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Description:

xx, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Altering practices / Doina Petrescu -- Taking place and altering it / Teresa Hoskyns, Doina Petrescu and other mixed voices -- Evaluating matrix : notes from inside the collective / Julia Dwyer and Anne Thorne -- An invisible privilege / muf -- How to take place (but only for so long) / Jane Rendell -- Building while being in it : notes on drawing 'otherhow' / Katie Lloyd Thomas -- Stray sods : eight dispositions on 'the feminine', space and writing / Brigid McLeer -- Micro-strategies of resistance / Helen Stratford -- Altering events in architecture / Anne Querrien -- Urban curating : a critical practice towards greater 'connectedness' / Meike Shalk -- Open kitchen or 'cookery architecture' / Kim Trogal -- Building clouds, drifting walls / Ruth Morrow -- Urban traces : civic performance art and memory in public space / Ilana Salama Ortar -- Sex & space : space/gender/economy / Marion von Osten -- Refiguring dis/embodiments / Niran Abbas -- Stabat Mater : on standing in for matter / Francesca Hughes -- The unbearable being of lightness / Jennifer Bloomer -- Leaming and building in the feminine / Sadie Plant.

Summary:

This collection of essays addresses and defines the state of contemporary theories and practices of space: it is concerned with the growing importance of technology and communications, the effects of globalization and the change of social demands. Within the current urban and geopolitical contexts, it addresses the emergence of new social and political theories that raise questions of identity and difference in modern society. The book reiterates feminist concerns with space from the critical stance of the new millennium. With contributions from the leading theorists and thinkers from around the world representing the fields of architecture, art, philosophy and gender studies, this book has a truly international and interdisciplinary reach.

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ISBN:

0415357853 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0415357861 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415357852 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415357869 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780203003930 (ebook)
0203003934 (ebook)
9786610858637
6610858632

Subject:

Communication in architecture.
Academic writing.
Space (Architecture)
Cities and towns Philosophy.
Critical theory.
Communication en architecture.
Écriture savante.
Espace (Architecture)
Villes Philosophie.
Théorie critique.
critical theories (dialectical critiques)

Added entries:

Petrescu, Doina.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 251473
Call No.: BIB 180909
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available