Whiteness, Space, and the Architecture of Exclusion

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-27346-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Minorities in Architecture

Whiteness, Space, and the Architecture of Exclusion examines how institutional spaces, lecture theatres, corridors, offices, and boardrooms actively shape who belongs and who is marginalised. While diversity and inclusion efforts often focus on representation, leadership, and policy, this book argues that space itself is a critical and overlooked dimension of inequality.

Drawing on Black feminist theory, disability justice, and spatial analysis, the book explores how whiteness operates through architectural design, temporal regimes, and everyday institutional practices. It combines conceptual analysis with lived experience to examine themes such as architectural privilege, the performance of inclusion, containment through bureaucracy, and the regulation of movement, access, and visibility. By shifting attention from who occupies space to how space is organised, this book offers a new framework for understanding institutional power.

This book will be of interest to scholars and students of critical race studies, architecture, geography, higher education, and organisational studies, as well as policymakers, architects, and institutional leaders concerned with equity, access, and social justice.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Muchecheti, Abigal

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gestaltung, Darstellung, Bautechnik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Berufspraxis
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Whiteness, Space, and the Architecture of Exclusion Chapter 1: Whiteness as Infrastructural Power Chapter 2: The Aesthetic of Neutrality: Whiteness in Design and Language Chapter 3: The Spatiality of Control: Corridors, Classrooms, Boardrooms Chapter 4: Mapping Belonging: The Affective Geographies of Home and Alienation Chapter 5: Privilege by Design Chapter 6: Metrics of Merit: How Data Masks Exclusion Chapter 7: The Performance of Inclusion Chapter 8: Leadership as Whiteness: Who Is Seen as Capable? Chapter 9: Silence as Structure Chapter 10: Whiteness and the Architecture of Time Chapter 11: The Weight of Being Seen and Unseen Chapter 12: Refusing Design: The Politics of Discomfort Chapter 13: Reclaiming Institutional Space: Futures Beyond Whiteness

Über Autor(innen)

Abigal Muchecheti, PhD, is an interdisciplinary researcher and practitioner working at the intersection of critical race studies, disability justice, institutional critique, and lived experience. She holds a PhD from Oxford Brookes University, examining racialised women’s leadership in UK higher education. She is the author of The Lived Experiences of a Non-Academic Woman of Colour Working in UK Higher Education and the forthcoming The Silence They Wrote for Me, which explores psychiatric detention, racialised violence, and refusal.