Originating from a disenfranchisement with the contemporary definition and realisation of Westernised architecture as a commodity and product, this thesis seeks to explore alternative examples of positive socio-spatial practice and agency. These alternative spatial practices and methodologies are drawn from participatory and grass-roots development agency in informal settlements and contexts of...

Recent criticism has considered how literary texts harness historical and ideological forces in the representation of body. However, much that scholarship focuses on hegemonic structures such as Western medicine, post-human technologies or colonial race theories. This article looks at two poets from Americas – Indigenous North American Chrystos (Menominee) Mahadai Das Guyana express representat...