Racial Cities

Governance and the Segregation of Romani People in Urban Europe

Giovanni Picker (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

174 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-33152-8 (ISBN)

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Building on nearly a decade of ethnographic and historical research in Romania, Italy, France and the UK, Racial Cities goes beyond race-blind and conventional approaches to spatial segregation to uncover the multiple connections between the contemporary segregation of Romani people and European colonial urban governance.

Going beyond race-blind approaches to spatial segregation in Europe, Racial Cities argues that race is the logic through which stigmatized and segregated "Gypsy urban areas" have emerged and persisted after World War II. Building on nearly a decade of ethnographic and historical research in Romania, Italy, France and the UK, Giovanni Picker casts a series of case studies into the historical framework of circulations and borrowings between colony and metropole since the late nineteenth century.

By focusing on socio-economic transformations and social dynamics in contemporary Cluj-Napoca, Pescara, Montreuil, Florence and Salford, Picker detects four local segregating mechanisms, and comparatively investigates resemblances between each of them and segregation in French Rabat, Italian Addis Ababa, and British New Delhi. These multiple global associations across space and time serve as an empirical basis for establishing a solid bridge between race critical theories and urban studies.

Racial Cities is the first comprehensive analysis of the segregation of Romani people in Europe, providing a fine-tuned and in-depth explanation of this phenomenon. While inequalities increase globally and poverty is ever more concentrated, this book is a key contribution to debates and actions addressing social marginality, inequalities, racist exclusions, and governance. Thanks to its dense yet thoroughly accessible narration, the book will appeal to scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and equally to activists and policy makers, who are interested in areas including: Race and Racism, Urban Studies, Governance, Inequalities, Colonialism and Postcolonialism, and European Studies.

Giovanni Picker is a Marie-Skłodowska Curie Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham School of Social Policy, UK.

List of illustrations

Foreword by Éric Fassin

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Inside segregation

1. Nodes

Colony: segregation rationales

Metropole: from sedentarization to segregation

Conclusion: toward an ethnography of nodes

2. Displacement

Displacing the hygiene threat

Racist order, racial icons

Conclusion: evicted from diversity

3. Omission

Governing an "ethnic bomb"

"Racism is not a problem"

Conclusion: racism and neoliberal doxa

4. Containment

Colonial genesis

Containing the outlandish

Conclusion: a spatio- racial political technology

5. Cohesion

Background

Segregating cohesion

Conclusion: racially structured cohesion

6. Correspondences

Assembling nodes

Colonial past, neoliberal present: depoliticization and racelessness

Conclusion: defining racial cities

7. Conclusion: Beyond segregation?

For the European city yet to come

Urban research and practice

Archives

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Erscheinungsdatum	30.07.2019
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Advances in Sociology
Zusatzinfo	2 Tables, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-367-33152-7 / 0367331527
ISBN-13	978-0-367-33152-8 / 9780367331528
Zustand	Neuware