Architectural Histories: The Open Access Journal of the EAHN
Architectural Histories is the open-access, international, blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal of the EAHN that creates a space where historically grounded research into all aspects of architecture and the built environment can be made public, consulted, and discussed. The journal is open to historical, historiographic, theoretical, and critical contributions that engage with architecture and the built environment from a historical perspective. Find out more about the scope and aims of the Journal, the Editorial Team and how to submit a paper here.
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Publication Awards
At each Biennial Conference, the EAHN Award for Best Publication is awarded to the best article published in the EAHN Journal Architectural Histories in the two preceding years. See here for a list of past recipients.
Editor in Chief
Petra Brouwer, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Assistant Editor
Christian Parreno, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador
General Editors
Iuliana Gavril, Norwich University of the Arts, United Kingdom
Stylianos Giamarelos, University College London, United Kingdom
Anne Hultzsch, Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway
Jiat-Hwee Chang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Claire Jamieson, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Josephine Kane, Royal College of Art, United Kingdom
Torsten Lange, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Lucía Pérez-Moreno, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Nele De Raedt, Ghent University, Belgium
Teresa Stoppani, London South Bank University, United Kingdom
Ruth Zein, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Brazil
Reviews Editors
Wouter Van Acker , Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Elizabeth Merrill, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany
Founding Editor in Chief, 2012-17
Maarten Delbeke, Universiteit Gent/Universiteit Leiden, Belgium
Editorial Assistant, 2012-17
Nele De Raedt, University of Ghent, Belgium
Journal News & Editorial Notices
Special Collection – Architectural Historiography and Fourth Wave Feminism
Guest editors: Claire Jamieson, Torsten Lange, and Lucía C. Pérez-Moreno
Over the course of the last decade, there has been a resurgence in feminist thinking and activism. Utilizing new tools and strategies for communication, women from all over the world and from different social and cultural backgrounds continue to strive for equal rights in the face of discrimination, sexism, and misogyny. In 2013, Ealasaid Munro argued that these recent developments mark a ‘fourth wave’ of feminism, characterized by its commitment to a ‘diversity of purpose’ that recognises intersectionality as a key issue of our time, and questioning established sex/gender systems and gender identity as a binary category. Simultaneously, this new wave is strongly associated with digital technology as a platform for previously marginalised voices. The aim of this Special Collection is to explore the impact of fourth wave feminism on architectural historiography.
Feminist architectural historiography emerged in parallel with the second wave of feminism in the 1960s and 1970s. It was chiefly concerned with women’s contribution to the production of the built environment, seeking to uncover the biographies of the first generation of women architects during the early modernist period. In the 1990s, the focus of feminist architectural history shifted, drawing from the insights of third wave feminism and queer theory’s critique of binary and hetero-normative definitions of gender. These histories interrogated the multiple relationships between space and the construction (and reinforcement) of gendered identities. Apart from destabilizing fixed categories, these authors also worked to dismantle master narratives, giving attention to micro-histories, everyday spaces, as well as unknown and marginal figures. As a result, a growing body of work began to address, in addition to gender, other axes of oppression such as class, age, ethnicity, sexuality, and religion, among others.
The editors of this Special Collection seek to explore what distinguishes current and emerging research from the previous five decades of writing feminist architectural histories. What knowledge of fourth wave feminism are we engaging with? How have questions, approaches, theoretical and analytical frameworks, and methodologies related to feminism evolved over time? What distinctly new features and concerns can we identify today?
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