Burning Down the House: A Feminist Appraisal of Space

BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE is a collection  of anarchic essays written by a new generation of everyday thinkers, activists and scholars who are figuring out their relationship to feminism. It is a radical appraisal of the home and a call to critically rethink the mechanisms that govern the ‘private’. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the home as decolonial space.

The house in South Africa is an intimate, bordered thing, abrupt with nearness. At home in this taunting, compulsive setting, the chapters in Burning Down the House inhabit the everyday in undaunted and visionary ways. In my own agony of unrootedness in which feminism has been an anchor, I found their writing at once unmooring and consoling. This is a book I am turning into an architecture and a map. — GABEBA BADEROON, author of The History of Intimacy