{"id":1140,"date":"2020-08-02T01:43:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T00:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feministssoa.group.shef.ac.uk\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2025-06-15T22:56:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T21:56:28","slug":"life-matters-making-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/?p=1140","title":{"rendered":"Life Matters Making Place"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Title:<\/strong> <strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Life Matters Making Place<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Author: <\/strong>Doina Petrescu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">In:<\/strong> Material Matters: Architecture and Material Practice, ed. by Katie Lloyd Thomas (London: Routledge, 2006), pp 72-85. ISBN: 9780203013625 (ebk.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Year:<\/strong> 2006<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong style=\"user-select: auto;\">Abstract:<\/strong> This paper, which focuses on the beginnings of the Cit\u00e9 des Femmes project, is written from a materialist position, which tries to bring together questions of matter and politics and to acknowledge that the material of a building refers not only to its physical components but includes also many kinds of matters and processes of negotiation within different economic, sexual, social and political contexts. It also positions itself within a long tradition in feminist theory and practice which tries to restore the links between matter and mater and to reframe the issues of materiality, emergence and generation within a gendered approach to place-making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link no-border-radius\" href=\"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Life_Matters_Making_Place_Doina_Petrescu.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:80px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Chapter. Doina Petrescu, in Material Matters: Architecture and Material Practice, ed. by K. Lloyd Thomas, 2006. This paper, which focuses on the beginnings of the Cit\u00e9 des Femmes project, is written from a materialist position, which tries to bring together questions of matter and politics and to acknowledge [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[83,53,72],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","tag-decolonisation","tag-equity","tag-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2262,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/2262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feminist.ssoa.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}