Spaces of Desire: Houses, Households, and Social Reproduction in the Roman world

Richard Alston

Spaces of Desire: Houses, Households, and Social Reproduction in the Roman world

Richard Alston

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Abstract

This essay focuses on the processes by which social actors transition from words to walls and from walls to words. I begin with a consideration of dialectics of space and society and the position of the house in such dialectics. In the second section, I examine Henri Lefebvre’s meditations on the production of space to argue that although space is subject to certain organising principles, there is always a capacity for individual agency and resistance. In the third and fourth sections, I explore briefly the implications for our study of Roman housing.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World
Subtitle of host publication	Material and Textual Approaches
Editors	Jen Baird, April Pudsey
Place of Publication	Cambridge
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Chapter	14
Pages	442-69
Number of pages	27
ISBN (Print)	9781108845267
Publication status	Published - 2022

Keywords

Housing
Domestic
Social Theory
Lefebvre
Ancient
Roman

Modes of Production and Reproduction in Roman-Era Egyptian Villages
Alston, R., Dec 2023, Households in Context : Dwelling in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. Barrett, C. E. & Carrington, J. C. (eds.). Ithaca: Cornell University Press, p. 181-98 18 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Gender Formation in the Formation of Empire
Alston, R., 26 Oct 2022, Gendering Roman Imperialism. Cornwall, H. & Woolf, G. (eds.). Leiden & Boston: Brill, p. 96-127 22 p. (Impact of Empre; no. 43).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Introduction: Between Words and Walls: Material and Textual Approaches to Housing in the Graeco-Roman World
Alston, R., Baird, J. & Pudsey, A., 2022, Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Material and Textual Approaches. Baird, J. & Pudsey, A. (eds.). Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, p. 1-26 27 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

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Spaces of Desire: Houses, Households, and Social Reproduction in the Roman world

Abstract

Keywords

Research output

Modes of Production and Reproduction in Roman-Era Egyptian Villages

Gender Formation in the Formation of Empire

Introduction: Between Words and Walls: Material and Textual Approaches to Housing in the Graeco-Roman World

Cite this