Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire by Chattopadhyay, Swati
Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire by Chattopadhyay, Swati

Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire

Small Spaces recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made...
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Author: Swati Chattopadhyay
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Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire by Chattopadhyay, Swati

Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire

$125.33
Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire by Chattopadhyay, Swati

Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire

$125.33
Author: Swati Chattopadhyay
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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.

Author: Swati Chattopadhyay
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Published: 09/21/2023
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781350288201

About the Author
Swati Chattopadhyay is Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, with an affiliated appointment in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.


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