Cheatle, E. orcid.org/0000-0003-0675-157X (2023) The gravid ground: stories of bed and street. The Journal of Architecture, 28 (6). pp. 947-965. ISSN 1360-2365
Abstract
Entangled with the complexity of Jennifer Bloomer's creative/theoretical ideas on chickens, beds, eggs, birth, and time, this essay is a ‘poetic/politic'Footnote1 dialogue between interior and exterior, private and public, health and illness. As gendered, cultural and personal, the place of illness is politically controversial to Western culture — taboo even — with ill bodies absented from public life. The essay illuminates this absenting. If health crises, rather than passively intersecting racial or gender inequalities, develop in a cycle of ‘co-constitution', their unravelling necessitates identifying threads through both personal and political storytelling.Footnote2 This essay asserts that who or what stories make present, then, has valence. I present three poetic/politic threads. The first, ‘insides', from experiences of being confined during the Covid-19 pandemic, tells the backstory of the bed, entering a playful journal dialogue with Bloomer, chickens and ill health. The second story, ‘outsides', moves out into the street where ground is bed and, overhearing the stories of others, considers the story as a potential delicate, minor resistance and restoration in public space or the urban landscape. The third story, ‘inside out’, rather than a conclusion, offers a composting of material for new beginnings.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
Keywords: | Built Environment and Design; Architecture; Generic health relevance |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Architecture and Landscape |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 23 Oct 2024 15:53 |
Last Modified: | 23 Oct 2024 15:53 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Informa UK Limited |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13602365.2023.2269394 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:218817 |
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