64 research outputs found
Negotiating the modern cross-class āmodel homeā:domestic experiences in Basil Spenceās Claremont Court
This article investigates the spatial articulation of architecture and home through the exploration of current domestic experiences in Basil Spenceās Claremont Court housing scheme (1959-1962), Edinburgh. How architecture and home are both idealized and lived is the backdrop for a discussion that draws on the concept of āmodel home,ā or physical representation of a domestic ideal. The article reads Claremont Court as an architectural prototype of the modern domestic ideal, before exploring its reception by five of its households through the use of visual methods and semistructured interviews. Receiving the model home involves negotiating between ideal and lived homes. Building on this idea, the article contributes with a focus on the spatiality of such reception, showing how it is modulated according to the architectural affordances that the āmodel homeā represents. The article expands on scholarship on architecture and home with empirical evidence that argues the reciprocal spatiality of home
Normative resistance to responsibility to protect in times of emerging multipolarity: the cases of Brazil and Russia
This article assesses the normative resistance to Responsibility to Protect adopted by Brazil and Russia against the backdrop of their international identities and self-assigned roles in a changing global order. Drawing upon the framework of Bloomsfield's norm dynamics role spectrum, it argues that while the ambiguous Russian role regarding this principle represents an example of 'norm antipreneurship', particularities of Brazil's resistance are better grasped by a new category left unaccounted for by this model, which this study portrays as 'contesting entrepreneur'.- (undefined
The US, Brazil and Latin America : the dynamics of asymmetrical regionalism
Until its recent crisis, Brazilās rise, combined with seeming US decline and distraction, led observers to declare South America a āpost-hegemonicā region. How have US and Brazilian ambitions and capabilities affected the countriesā relations within the shared neighbourhood of the Western Hemisphere? Building on work by Womack, B. [2016. Asymmetry and international relationships. New York: Cambridge University Press], the article analyses the US-Brazil-South America relationship as a regionally located, asymmetrical triangle. During two centre-left presidencies, Brazil sought to shift the dynamics of the hemisphereās soft triangles. Brazilian diplomacy redefined its neighbourhood as South America, developed exclusive regional groupings, and assumed the role of pivot to shape relationships between the US and South America. In the face of sceptical neighbours and weakened Brazilian capabilities, the regional triangle is likely to return to a more ānormalā configuration in which the United States acts as a central, albeit often uninterested, pivot
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