Cities of Whiteness (eBook)

Wendy S. Shaw (Autor)

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2011
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4443-9971-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This groundbreaking book brings the study of whiteness and postcolonial perspectives to bear on debates about urban change. A thought-provoking contribution to debates about urban change, race and cosmopolitan urbanism Brings the study of whiteness to the discipline of geography, questioning the notion of white ethnicity Engages with Indigenous peoples' experiences of whiteness past and present, and with theoretical postcolonial perspectives Uses Sydney as an example of a 'city of whiteness', considering trends such as Sydney's 'SoHo Syndrome' and the 'Harlemisation' of the Aboriginal community

Autor

Wendy S. Shaw is a Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of New South Wales. Her research interests include the meanings of heritage in Australia and other Pacific places, the impacts of high-rise developments, and the status of Indigenous peoples in Australia and around the world.

Inhalt

List of Figures.

List of Boxes.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

1. Encountering Cities of Whiteness.

Journeying to Inner Sydney.

Cities as Cultural Constructions - Gentrification and
Urbanism.

The Birth of Whiteness Scholarship.

Cities of Neo-colonial Whiteness.

2. (Post)colonial Sydney.

From Dangerous to Endangered City.

Securing Whiteness in the Paradoxical City.

Conclusions.

3. 'The Good Old Days'.

Heritage Dreaming.

Performing Sydney Heritage.

Activating Heritage.

Architectures of Escape 1: Into the Past.

Conclusions.

4. Cosmopolitan Metropolitanism (Or The Indifferent
City).

Introduction.

Manhattan Dreaming (in Sydney Australia).

Architectures of Escape 2: Sydney's SoHo Syndrome.

Conclusions.

5. Cities of Whiteness.

Geographies of Urban Whiteness.

Studying Cities.

The End of (Cities of) Whiteness?

Bibliography.

Index.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.7.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Antipode Book Series
• Reihe/Serie: Antipode Book Series
• Reihe/Serie: Antipode Book Series
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Boundaries • broadly • Cities • City • Critical • Experiences • follows • Geographie • Geography • Ideas • Indigenous • Main • New • notion • peoples • Power • processes • provides • Race • Social & Cultural Geography • Social Identity • Social Policy & Welfare • Social Problems • Sociology • Soziale Identität • Soziale Identität • Soziale Probleme • Sozialpolitik u. Wohlfahrt • Soziologie • Sozio- u. Kulturgeographie • Studies • Theories • Urban • Ways • white ethnicity • whiteness • Work
• ISBN-10: 1-4443-9971-3 / 1444399713
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-9971-4 / 9781444399714