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Intimate architectures: a cultural geography of doors

Brookes, Edward

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This article seeks to contribute to geography’s continued interest in architecture through a focus on the ‘intimate architectural space’ of the door. Its aims are threefold; the first section seeks to extend knowledge of the door within geographic literature as it becomes a key site in which ‘events are gathered’ and through which politics can be encountered; the second section takes a ‘minor theory approach’, using a range of non-western, feminist, and class-based perspectives, exploring the social and political affordances of the door through the themes of ‘body’ and ‘performativity’. Whilst the conclusion uses these discussions to demonstrate how intimate architectures might further develop our knowledge of built spaces, providing an additional framework to engage with the often-overlooked aspects of architecture. In doing so, the door is presented as a site that structures how we move and relate to our bodies in physical space; most notably that the door’s capacity as a barrier maintains a distinct exclusionary politics which reinforces class and racial divisions through the built environment.

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Brookes, E. (2022). Intimate architectures: a cultural geography of doors. Social & cultural geography, 23(6), 797-813. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2020.1821389

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jul 14, 2020
Online Publication Date Sep 15, 2020
Publication Date Jan 1, 2022
Deposit Date Sep 14, 2023
Publicly Available Date Sep 27, 2023
Journal Social and Cultural Geography
Print ISSN 1464-9365
Electronic ISSN 1470-1197
Publisher Routledge
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 23
Issue 6
Pages 797-813
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2020.1821389
Keywords Cultural geography; Doors; Intimate architecture; Body; Performativity
Public URL https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4387753

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