1st Edition

Whiteness, Space, and the Architecture of Exclusion

By Abigal Muchecheti Copyright 2026
276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

Whiteness, Space, and the Architecture of Exclusion examines how institutional spaces, lecture theatres, corridors, offices, and boardrooms actively shape who belongs and who is marginalised. While diversity and inclusion efforts often focus on representation, leadership, and policy, this book argues that space itself is a critical and overlooked dimension of inequality. Drawing on Black... Read more

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Whiteness, Space, and the Architecture of Exclusion

Chapter 1: Whiteness as Infrastructural Power

Chapter 2: The Aesthetic of Neutrality: Whiteness in Design and Language

Chapter 3: The Spatiality of Control: Corridors, Classrooms, Boardrooms

Chapter 4: Mapping Belonging: The Affective Geographies of Home and Alienation

Chapter 5: Privilege by Design

Chapter 6: Metrics of Merit: How Data Masks Exclusion

Chapter 7: The Performance of Inclusion

Chapter 8: Leadership as Whiteness: Who Is Seen as Capable?

Chapter 9: Silence as Structure

Chapter 10: Whiteness and the Architecture of Time

Chapter 11: The Weight of Being Seen and Unseen

Chapter 12: Refusing Design: The Politics of Discomfort

Chapter 13: Reclaiming Institutional Space: Futures Beyond Whiteness

Index

Biography

Abigal Muchecheti, PhD, is an interdisciplinary researcher and practitioner working at the intersection of critical race studies, disability justice, institutional critique, and lived experience. She holds a PhD from Oxford Brookes University, examining racialised women’s leadership in UK higher education. She is the author of The Lived Experiences of a Non-Academic Woman of Colour Working in UK Higher Education and the forthcoming The Silence They Wrote for Me, which explores psychiatric detention, racialised violence, and refusal.