‘ How do sources decide the histories we may tell about architecture, metropolitan area, and the agents that animate it,’ program asks
In a spring course offered this spring, Princeton University students may consider the influence of “feminist” and “gender” theory on the creation of infrastructure histories.
” Queer Spaces in the World” is offered by the school of architecture and taught by Professor S. E. Eisterer. In the sex and gender studies program, it is cross listed.
According to the course description,” How is female, gender, gay, and trans* theory help us table new avenues for writing critical structural histories that are observant to discourse of difference but also narratives of equity”?
Beyond regular modes of structural inquiry, what techniques can we use to reveal histories of individuals and organizations that have positively resisted dominating regimes of power and their related systems of knowledge, the description asks.
Eisterer did not respond to numerous emails asking for comments on the course’s possible goals and purpose in the previous month. The College Fix was not addressed by the school’s media relations crew or structures department.
” S. E.’s analysis focuses on geographical histories of dissent, feminist, queer, and trans* concept in architecture, as well as the work of social and ecological movements”, according to her university website.
However, a center-right think tank academic commentator claimed the course aims to persuade students to take a particular political ideology.
The obvious goal of these programs is to pressure students at this powerful entity to adhere to politically charged beliefs, Sam Karnick wrote in an email to The College Fix.
The course’s senior fellow at the Heartland Institute added that the organization wants students to “take this idea to the apparently elite centers of power” they are also destined to.
According to Karnick,” the state behind these programs and the research behind them is that cultural arrangements have not given enough power and authority to some groups of people, whom these intellectuals describe as excluded,” according to Karnick.
” Those who disagree with this plan may be marginalized. That self-contradiction is enough to reject their situation”, Karnick said.
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Eisterer, the professor, has a history in applying personality politics to structures.
She is described as a “queer structural writer” by Aggregate.
The Princeton professor also co-authored a book called “methods and theories in writing about feminist and LGBTQIA + spaces in architecture.”
She serves on the Insurgent Domesticities Group’s board of directors as well as the co-founder of the Queer Working Space Group.
The” Queer Working Space Group” hosted a conference in December 2024 with funding from the Swiss National Foundation.
” We will examine housework as a means of gay independence across international diasporic communities”, the announcement promised.
” Throughout the four days, we will analyze the architecture of diasporic homes as materials and social experiments, examining how different types of modern marginalization—like ethnicity, race, migration, and gender—shape geographical elections”, according to the description. ” Through roundtable discussions, symposiums, performances, and archiving workshops, amongst others, participants will collaborate to investigate how queer perspectives can redefine our understanding of home and community”.
Students at Princeton have other options this semester if they want to learn more about gender and sexuality issues.
A course called” Bad Girls: Gender, Sexuality, and Deviance” will explore how boys and girls “perform their gender and/or sexuality in ways that fall outside of the norm”.
Students can also take a course called” The Poetics of Memory: Fragility and Liberation”.
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