Introduction to Third Text special issue 'Trans-figurations: Transnational Perspectives on Domestic Spaces'

The focus of the issue is on the concept of home in a transnational perspective. The articles included address feminist art and theory, and global studies which share a tendency to ‘think across’ disciplines, gender, place or materiality. The authors explore artistic practice in terms of ‘trans-figurations’ – material forms of thought operating across gender, place and belonging. They conceptualise the concept of home within the politics of domesticity and ideologies of nationhood and citizenship, as a powerful construct enabling the questioning of the production of space. The aim of this special issue is to activate thinking about home, identity and space in a transnational perspective drawing from feminist discourse.