When Place Becomes Race
Key Terms/Concepts/Definitions
Main Argument
Connections
place becomes race through the law
constitution of spaces reproduces racial hierarchies
white settler society
established by Europeans on non-European soil
genocide > become original inhabitants
creation of a narrative of peaceful and unified nation building =spacialized development of the national story
significant passage > Michael Ignatieff "To speak this way as if settlement were merely a form of imperial domination, is to withhold recognition of the right of the majority to settle and use the land we both share"
makes Aboriginal people pre-modern
further makes them insignificant in the story
British colonialism stated that nations "deemed to be inhabited if the people were not Christian, not agricultural, not sufficiently evolved..."
Had to literally prove they existed
inter-sectional analysis > "white men of grit" = molds racial character
Southern people viewed as the opposite = degenerate
= racial shadow
3rd) anti-immigration rhetoric = increased policing, targeting bodies of color
Anti-Terrorism Act > can hold suspected terrorists in solitary confinement
Refugee's have to wait 3 years to enjoy full citizenship = "Us" VS "Them" > building "trust" impression
Relationship between identity and space = spacial analysis
material
symbolic
multiple systems of domination
requires an interdisciplinary approach from scholars
Space as a Social Product
fill with things (houses) or nature fills it
looking at the the houses, how they were built, and by who = result of unequal economic relations
perceived (routines, experiences > permits certain acts and prohibits others), conceived (representations by architects, planners, and lived space (the experience of perceived and conceived comes together)
production of space = production of included/excluded bodies (e..g homeless people not able to sleep in a padlocked park at night)
The Body in Space
exercise of power
surveillance allows dominants to discipline on the macro and micro level (e.g. timetables, specific repeated movements = working class)
mapping spaces = measure, standardize, and bind space
mobility = allows body to be unmarked > this also allows for a person to come to know them self because they have this superiority
Gender, Transgression, and Journeys Through Space
Canadian idea of manhood, against "wild Indians" , comes to understand his space as civilized but not the space of others
women come to know their civility is in the home, becoming tools in the colonial project
Disability Justice
Everything put in the gallery is meant to address the need of a certain type of viewer, e.g. height of display, text, steps = micro organization of bodies
National Security
Factories and raids fashioned to make that space a climate of fear, perception of police and enforcement, the media, lack of trust > for them who are the "other" has to prove they are not dangerous while the space continually tries to perpetuate that they are dangerous