Shaw Cities of Whiteness

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9971-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Antipode Book Series

This groundbreaking book brings the study of whiteness andpostcolonial 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 postcolonialperspectives
* Uses Sydney as an example of a 'city of whiteness', consideringtrends such as Sydney's 'SoHo Syndrome' and the 'Harlemisation' ofthe Aboriginal community

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shaw, Wendy S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures.
List of Boxes.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
1. Encountering Cities of Whiteness.
Journeying to Inner Sydney.
Cities as Cultural Constructions - Gentrification andUrbanism.
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 IndifferentCity).
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.

Über Autor(innen)

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.