From basement to de-basement? A probing response to opacity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7769751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hermione Spriggs (0000-0003-0462-6572, UCL, London, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 28 (1) |
| Issue | 28 (1 |
| Pages | 305-309 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Etnografica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0873-6561 • E-ISSN: 2182-2891 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/etnografica.15789 |
| OpenAlex | W4392641635 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
“The opaque is not the obscure” (Glissant 1997: 191). So begins Fran Martínez’ text on basements, which he approaches as spaces of opacity that can nonetheless be entered ethnographically. The apparent paradox that Martíez sets up appears to be a problem with relations of power, wrapped up in the expressly visual coding of “observer” and “observed”. As inherently dark places, basements present a particularly fertile ground for exploring and reversing these relations, and – I suggest – for c
Archaeology · Basement · Basement membrane · Geography · Opacity · Optics · Pathology · Physics · Medicine · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Geology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |