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Swati Chattopadhyay: Making empire everyday.
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In Episode 22 of Series 3 of A is for Architecture, architectural historian, Swati Chattopadhyay discusses her 2023 book, Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire, published by Bloomsbury. ‘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 [and] is a must-read for anyone wishing to decolonize disciplinary practices in the field of architectural, urban, and colonial history.’
Swati is Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara and can be found professionally there.
Available on Spotify, iTunes, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music and YouTube.
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Music credits: Bruno Gillick
117 episodes
Manage episode 399807970 series 3514198
In Episode 22 of Series 3 of A is for Architecture, architectural historian, Swati Chattopadhyay discusses her 2023 book, Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire, published by Bloomsbury. ‘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 [and] is a must-read for anyone wishing to decolonize disciplinary practices in the field of architectural, urban, and colonial history.’
Swati is Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara and can be found professionally there.
Available on Spotify, iTunes, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music and YouTube.
Thanks for listening.
+
Music credits: Bruno Gillick
117 episodes
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