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Small Spaces
Recasting the Architecture of Empire
Taschenbuch von Swati Chattopadhyay
Sprache: Englisch

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Small Spaces recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible. It takes as its subject a series of small architectural spaces, objects, and landscapes and uses them to narrate the untold stories of the marginalized people-the servants, women, children, subalterns, and racialized minorities-who held up the infrastructure of empire. In so doing it opens up an important new approach to architectural history: an invitation to shift our attention from the large to the small scale.

Taking the British empire in India as its primary focus, this book presents eighteen short, readable chapters to explore an array of overlooked places and spaces. From cook rooms and slave quarters to outhouses, go-downs, and medicine cupboards, each chapter reveals how and why these kinds of minor spaces are so important to understanding colonialism. With the focus of history so often on the large scale - global trade networks, vast regions, and architectures of power and domination - Small Spaces shows instead how we need to rethink this aura of magnitude so that our reading is not beholden such imperialist optics.

With chapters which can be read separately as individual accounts of objects, spaces, and buildings, and introductions showing how this critical methodology can challenge the methods and theories of urban and architectural history, Small Spaces is a must-read for anyone wishing to decolonize disciplinary practices in the field of architectural, urban, and colonial history. Altogether, it provides a paradigm-breaking account of how to 'unlearn empire', whether in British India or elsewhere.
Small Spaces recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible. It takes as its subject a series of small architectural spaces, objects, and landscapes and uses them to narrate the untold stories of the marginalized people-the servants, women, children, subalterns, and racialized minorities-who held up the infrastructure of empire. In so doing it opens up an important new approach to architectural history: an invitation to shift our attention from the large to the small scale.

Taking the British empire in India as its primary focus, this book presents eighteen short, readable chapters to explore an array of overlooked places and spaces. From cook rooms and slave quarters to outhouses, go-downs, and medicine cupboards, each chapter reveals how and why these kinds of minor spaces are so important to understanding colonialism. With the focus of history so often on the large scale - global trade networks, vast regions, and architectures of power and domination - Small Spaces shows instead how we need to rethink this aura of magnitude so that our reading is not beholden such imperialist optics.

With chapters which can be read separately as individual accounts of objects, spaces, and buildings, and introductions showing how this critical methodology can challenge the methods and theories of urban and architectural history, Small Spaces is a must-read for anyone wishing to decolonize disciplinary practices in the field of architectural, urban, and colonial history. Altogether, it provides a paradigm-breaking account of how to 'unlearn empire', whether in British India or elsewhere.
Über den Autor
Swati Chattopadhyay
Zusammenfassung
The author is a renowned scholar in architectural and urban history-recently awarded The Society of Architectural Historians Fellowship for a "lifetime of significant contributions to the field of architectural history"
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface and Acknowledgments

Part I. Small Spaces
1. Of Small Spaces
2. Empire of Small Spaces

Part II: Trade and Labor
3. Dependency
4. Locating the Bottlekhana
5. Potable Empire
[...]ope Goods
7. Strange Tongues
8. Making Invisible

Part III: Land Imagination
9. Vantage
10. Connective Spaces
11. Anomalous Spaces
12. An Aesthetic Episode
13. Roofscape

Part IV: A Geography of Small Spaces
14. Collections and Containment
15. Portable Geographies
16. A Good Shelf
17. A Box of Medicine
18. Epilogue

Appendix A
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Kunstgeschichte
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781350288201
ISBN-10: 1350288209
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 576828
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Chattopadhyay, Swati
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 231 x 155 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Swati Chattopadhyay
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.09.2023
Gewicht: 0,822 kg
Artikel-ID: 123910390
Über den Autor
Swati Chattopadhyay
Zusammenfassung
The author is a renowned scholar in architectural and urban history-recently awarded The Society of Architectural Historians Fellowship for a "lifetime of significant contributions to the field of architectural history"
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface and Acknowledgments

Part I. Small Spaces
1. Of Small Spaces
2. Empire of Small Spaces

Part II: Trade and Labor
3. Dependency
4. Locating the Bottlekhana
5. Potable Empire
[...]ope Goods
7. Strange Tongues
8. Making Invisible

Part III: Land Imagination
9. Vantage
10. Connective Spaces
11. Anomalous Spaces
12. An Aesthetic Episode
13. Roofscape

Part IV: A Geography of Small Spaces
14. Collections and Containment
15. Portable Geographies
16. A Good Shelf
17. A Box of Medicine
18. Epilogue

Appendix A
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Kunstgeschichte
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781350288201
ISBN-10: 1350288209
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 576828
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Chattopadhyay, Swati
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 231 x 155 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Swati Chattopadhyay
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.09.2023
Gewicht: 0,822 kg
Artikel-ID: 123910390
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