Kay Anderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692687 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kay Anderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kay |
| FAMILY NAME | Anderson |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERSON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Sydney University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7176-2278 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 818 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Chinatown Unbound: Trans-Asian Urbanism in the Age of China
‘Chinatowns’ are familiar places in almost all major cities in the world. In popular Western wisdom, the restaurants, pagodas, and red lanterns are intrinsically equated with a self-contained, immigrant Chinese district, an alien enclave of ‘the East’ in ‘the West’. By the 1980s, when these Western societies had largely given up their racially discriminatory immigration policies and opened up to Asian immigration, the dominant conception of China…
“Removed from Nature”
In the context of current concerns within the environmental humanities to challenge the idea that humans are somehow irreducible to nature, this article takes up the much-neglected history of the idea of human exceptionality itself. According to now familiar accounts, metaphysical assumptions about the unique status of the human are considered to have persisted—including to the present day—despite evolutionary contentions that the human should be…
Chinatown dis-oriented: Shifting standpoints in the age of China
This article revisits the author’s Vancouver’s Chinatown (1991), and an Australian Geographical Studies (1990) piece on Melbourne and Sydney’s Chinatown, to extend their genealogical method into the twenty-first century. In a century marked by the rise of China and a proliferation of inter-Asian mobilities, the Haymarket district of Australia’s most Asian-inflected city is undergoing a dramatic transformation. Sydney’s Chinatown, once a stigmatis…
Environment: Critical Essays in Human Geography
Culture and nature at the Adelaide Zoo: At the frontiers of ‘human’ geography
This chapter develops a cultural critique of the zoo as an institution that inscribes various human strategies for domesticating, mythologizing and aestheticizing the animal universe. Using the case of Adelaide, South Australia, the chapter draws the mutable discursive frames and practices through which animals were fashioned and delivered to the South Australian public by the Royal Zoological Society of South Australia. Nature, for all its appar…
Mind over matter? On decentring the human in Human Geography
The fantasy of a human being who is, or becomes, human to the extent they move away from animal nature is stubbornly persistent in western cultural formations. It considers how comparative anatomists of the early 19th century - in explicitly departing from the 18th-century Cartesian dualism that had identified the human with an immaterial notion of soul or mind - looked to the human body, and above all the head, in order to establish that people …
The DSM-5 Has Arrived
Journal Article The DSM-5 Has Arrived Get access Elizabeth C. Pomeroy, Elizabeth C. Pomeroy e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Kathleen Anderson Kathleen Anderson Elizabeth C. Pomeroy, PhD, LCSW, is professor and codirector of the Institute for Grief, Loss, and Family Survival, School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station D3500, Austin, TX …
Reframing craniometry: Human Exceptionalism and the Production of Racial Knowledge
Focusing on the nineteenth century practice of craniometry, this paper considers how strategies of producing racial ‘knowledge’ played a key role in the development of ideas about the human. Supplementing the familiar claim that nineteenth century racial craniometry was designed to biologise longstanding aesthetic prejudices about variations in human physical appearance, the paper offers a more specific understanding of the role of this practice …
Milk, Modernity and the Making of the Human
Richie Nimmo, Milk, Modernity and the Making of the Human, London & New York, Routledge, 2010, 210 pp., £90.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-415-55874-7 Recent scholarship pursuing a ‘more-than-human’ mo
Urban Curating: The “Interspaces” of Art Collaboration in Western Sydney
This article examines the modes of emergence of “the local” in particular collaborative art projects in suburban Sydney (Australia) as outflows of singular interfaces between artists, institutions, audiences, and administrators. We begin analytically with the circulations that variously draw on and craft notions of locality and community in two projects staged in western Sydney, both involving nonlocal artists collaborating with business entities…
Rethinking 'the Human' in Memory of Fay Gale (AO)
In 1972, the late Fay Gale (AO) published a characteristically self-styled book titled Urban Aborigines. It launched a richly diverse career that delivered an exceptional legacy to the academic discipline of geography, aboriginal justice, university administration, and women's professional advancement. This article, based on a 2010 lecture in her honour, takes up Fay's intellectual contribution to one of these fields. It pursues her critical inte…
A Clash of Cultures or Definitions: Complexity and Backpacker Tourism in Residential Communities
The Creative Assemblage: Theorizing Contemporary Forms of Arts-Based Collaboration
This paper contributes to theorizing contemporary art collaborations in the context of the mediatory labour required of artists, and the complexity of the collaborative contexts in which aesthetic production is now enmeshed. In order to account for this complexity without reducing its analysis to ‘structured fields’ or ‘systems’, we use elements of assemblage theory in a quite specific way: drawing on DeLanda's work on social and organizational f…
Intimate encounters: The embodied transnationalism of backpackers and independent travellers
This paper examines some of the tensions between local government authorities, residents, and backpackers occurring in a group of Sydney coastal suburbs that are the host destinations for large numbers of young independent travellers. Drawing on the concepts of ‘intimacy’ and ‘encounter’, it focuses on the kinds of embodied encounters occurring when the transnational networks of these travellers become overlaid on, and in conflict with, the patte…
Thinkingwiththe Head: Race, craniometry, humanism
This paper draws upon assemblage theory to challenge the familiar argument that nineteenth century craniometry -- the practice of head measuring -- was simply a racist practice. Approaching this practice as constitutive rather than derivative of racial discourse, we consider how race might be rethought if the head were regarded, not as just another focus for the racialization of the body, but as integral to the elaboration of a ‘biological’ conce…
How race became everything: Australia and polygenism
This paper seeks to explain the shift that took place in the mid-nineteenth century elaboration of a polygenist idea of race. Supplementing existing claims that increasing evidence about the diversity of humankind provided a context for this shift, the focus here is upon British colonial encounters in Australia. It is against the background of what was considered to be a distinctly human separation from, and capacity to rise above, nature that, w…
Mutant Mobilities: Backpacker Tourism in 'Global' Sydney
This essay explores the complex mobilities of contemporary backpackers. Backpackers are not just tourists; they are also frequently students, working holidaymakers, highly skilled professional workers, and even, at times, long‐term semi‐permanent residents. How to define this group of physically and conceptually mobile travellers is often problematic, especially for local authorities. It is difficult to discern what cultural space and identity th…
Gwendoline Fay Gale AO (13 June 1932-3 May 2008)
Race' in post-universalist perspective
This article takes the subject of the rise of racial discourse in the 19th century as a focus for extending critical race theory (CRT) in Cultural and Historical Geography. It pursues a critique beyond the familiar claim of race's legitimatory function to elicit the fundamentally unstable and crisis-ridden origins of innatist thought. Crucially, this requires a situated account -one that emphasizes the singular challenge that Australian colonial …
‘The Miserablest People in the World’: Race, Humanism and the Australian Aborigine
This paper considers how an idea of the Australian Aborigine impacted upon the development of racial thinking throughout the nineteenth century. We distinguish three phases of this development. Against the background of what was considered to be a distinctly human capacity to rise above nature, our central argument however is that the extreme and irremediable savagery attributed to the Aborigine led to the mid‐nineteenth shift to a polygenist, or…
Griffith Taylor Lecture, Geographical Society of New South Wales, 2004: Australia and the ‘State of Nature/Native
This account sets itself against the binarism of physical versus cultural determinism that drives population–environment debate over people's place on the Australian continent. In reading back into colonial times, it evokes ‘our’ unresolved sense of relation to nature on a continent that has pressed awkward buttons since the time the botanist on Cook's Endeavour, Joseph Banks, first mused over the apparent contradiction on the east coast of human…
Exclusionary Politics and the Question of National Belonging: Australian Ethnicities in ‘Multiscalar’ Focus
This article builds on recent efforts to cast the understanding of ethnic and racialized tensions less in terms of a coarse logic of racism than within an analytical frame of struggles over national belonging. This theme is developed with respect to intercultural relations in Australia, in all the complexities of its white settler, migrant, and indigenous formations. The article develops a ‘multiscalar’ focus that takes in the global circuits of …
Handbook of Cultural Geography
Handbook of cultural geography
Presenting a state-of-the-art assessment of the key questions informing cultural geography in the 21st century, this handbook emphasises the intellectual diversity of the discipline and is cross-referenced throughout
White natures: Sydney's Royal Agricultural Show in post‐humanist perspective
Few events perform so ritualistically the triumphal narrative of human ingenuity and agency over the natural world, as the metropolitan displays of produce and machinery known as agricultural shows. The Royal Agricultural Show held in Sydney (Australia) is a case in point. Since the 1890s those liminal forms, of Herefords, hay, harvesters and the like that spill over the categories we think of as culture and nature, have been annually assembled. …
The Idea of Chinatown: The Power of Place and Institutional Practice in the Making of a Racial Category
Racial categories are cultural ascriptions whose construction and transmission cannot be taken for granted. I focus here on the process by which racial categories are themselves constructed; in particular, I examine the presence of place and the role of state in the making of one such category, the "Chinese," in a British settler society from the 1880s to the 1920s. I argue that "Chinatown," like race, is an idea that belongs to the "white" Europ…
A walk on the wild side: A Critical Geography of Domestication
Against a backdrop of growing interest in animal geographies and the genetic engineering of species, this article critically examines the process of animal domestication. To date, the social selection and breeding of animals have received little deconstructive effort from human scientists. The article begins by reviewing earlier schools of geographic thought on domestication, including the work of Carl Sauer, for whom domestication was a transhis…
Culture and Nature at the Adelaide Zoo: At the Frontiers of 'Human' Geography
Cultural Hegemony and the Race-Definition Process in Chinatown, Vancouver: 1880-1980
The study of systems of racial classification is not well developed in the social sciences. Within the liberal tradition of race relations research, race has more often been taken for granted than made an object of explanation itself. Marxist analysts, on the other hand, have tended to treat race, like other ideologies, as derivative of more decisive economic pressures under capitalism. Neither of these 'idealist' or materialist' perspectives giv…
The Beast within: Race, Humanity, and Animality
Recent years have seen efforts to critique the dichotomy of 'nature' and 'society' in Western thought, and to demonstrate their coconstruction under specific material conditions. As yet, however, little work has uncovered the discourses of animality that lie buried within a social field whose ontological status until recently has been securely 'human'. In this paper, I show how Western concepts of animality have circulated across the nature borde…
Mind over matter? On decentring the human in Human Geography
The fantasy of a human being who is, or becomes, human to the extent they move away from animal nature is stubbornly persistent in western cultural formations. It considers how comparative anatomists of the early 19th century - in explicitly departing from the 18th-century Cartesian dualism that had identified the human with an immaterial notion of soul or mind - looked to the human body, and above all the head, in order to establish that people …
Exclusionary Politics and the Question of National Belonging: Australian Ethnicities in ‘Multiscalar’ Focus
This article builds on recent efforts to cast the understanding of ethnic and racialized tensions less in terms of a coarse logic of racism than within an analytical frame of struggles over national belonging. This theme is developed with respect to intercultural relations in Australia, in all the complexities of its white settler, migrant, and indigenous formations. The article develops a ‘multiscalar’ focus that takes in the global circuits of …
White natures: Sydney's Royal Agricultural Show in post‐humanist perspective
Few events perform so ritualistically the triumphal narrative of human ingenuity and agency over the natural world, as the metropolitan displays of produce and machinery known as agricultural shows. The Royal Agricultural Show held in Sydney (Australia) is a case in point. Since the 1890s those liminal forms, of Herefords, hay, harvesters and the like that spill over the categories we think of as culture and nature, have been annually assembled. …
Thinking “Postnationally”: Dialogue across Multicultural, Indigenous, and Settler Spaces
Intimate encounters: The embodied transnationalism of backpackers and independent travellers
This paper examines some of the tensions between local government authorities, residents, and backpackers occurring in a group of Sydney coastal suburbs that are the host destinations for large numbers of young independent travellers. Drawing on the concepts of ‘intimacy’ and ‘encounter’, it focuses on the kinds of embodied encounters occurring when the transnational networks of these travellers become overlaid on, and in conflict with, the patte…
Mutant Mobilities: Backpacker Tourism in 'Global' Sydney
This essay explores the complex mobilities of contemporary backpackers. Backpackers are not just tourists; they are also frequently students, working holidaymakers, highly skilled professional workers, and even, at times, long‐term semi‐permanent residents. How to define this group of physically and conceptually mobile travellers is often problematic, especially for local authorities. It is difficult to discern what cultural space and identity th…
The Racialization of Difference: Enlarging the Story Field
In this article, I explore ways of loosening the interpretive grid of "race" in critical geographical analysis without obscuring that concept's efficacy as a social force. In recent years, social constructivist perspectives on race have brought much evidence to bear on the logics of race/power formations in America and other British settler societies. The risk of petrifying "race" in the analysis of social life and reinscribing the very power tha…
From Urban Aborigines to Aboriginality and the City: One Path Through the History of Australian Cultural Geography
This paper charts one idiosyncratic and rather personalised path through the emergence of cultural geography in the Australian context. It takes as its example the transition from research which examines a category group identified as 'urban Aborigines' to more recent research of our own which looks at the theme of how Aboriginality is articulated in and through the space of the city. This transition provides a way of registering some broader cha…
Place narratives and the origins of inner Sydney's Aboriginal settlement, 1972-73
Chinatown Re‐oriented’: A Critical Analysis of Recent Redevelopment Schemes in a Melbourne and Sydney Enclave
This paper develops a critical analysis of Chinatown redevelopment schemes undertaken by State governments in Victoria and New South Wales since the early 1970s, This period marks a transition in Australian management strategy toward minority groups from one of assimilation/discrimination to cultural pluralism. At the local level, this shift has been marked by efforts on the part of planners and politicians to promote Chinatown for its perceived …
Race' in post-universalist perspective
This article takes the subject of the rise of racial discourse in the 19th century as a focus for extending critical race theory (CRT) in Cultural and Historical Geography. It pursues a critique beyond the familiar claim of race's legitimatory function to elicit the fundamentally unstable and crisis-ridden origins of innatist thought. Crucially, this requires a situated account -one that emphasizes the singular challenge that Australian colonial …
Animal Domestication in Geographic Perspective
What, exactly, makes humans human? A close look at nonhuman animal domestication practices reveals how people came to view their own uniqueness in western cultural process. The study of domestication across time shows the multiple human impulses underlying acts of animal enclosure and domestication. Animals can be beloved companions or eaten for a meal. These impulses involve contradictory moralities-a rich subject for inquiries into the dynamics…
Science and the Savage: The Linnean Society of New South Wales, 1874-1900
North American spaces/postcolonial stories
Making a Difference: A geographer's view from the top-an interview with Fay Gale
This interview was conducted in December 1997 when Professor Fay Gale retired, having completed a highly successful career as a geography academic and university administrator in Australia, most recently as Vice-Chancellor at the University of Western Australia. The interview explores her professional and personal development as well as her views of research, teaching, geography, the problems and prospects for women in academia and the state of h…
Chinatown dis-oriented: Shifting standpoints in the age of China
This article revisits the author’s Vancouver’s Chinatown (1991), and an Australian Geographical Studies (1990) piece on Melbourne and Sydney’s Chinatown, to extend their genealogical method into the twenty-first century. In a century marked by the rise of China and a proliferation of inter-Asian mobilities, the Haymarket district of Australia’s most Asian-inflected city is undergoing a dramatic transformation. Sydney’s Chinatown, once a stigmatis…
Griffith Taylor Lecture, Geographical Society of New South Wales, 2004: Australia and the ‘State of Nature/Native
This account sets itself against the binarism of physical versus cultural determinism that drives population–environment debate over people's place on the Australian continent. In reading back into colonial times, it evokes ‘our’ unresolved sense of relation to nature on a continent that has pressed awkward buttons since the time the botanist on Cook's Endeavour, Joseph Banks, first mused over the apparent contradiction on the east coast of human…
Thinkingwiththe Head: Race, craniometry, humanism
This paper draws upon assemblage theory to challenge the familiar argument that nineteenth century craniometry -- the practice of head measuring -- was simply a racist practice. Approaching this practice as constitutive rather than derivative of racial discourse, we consider how race might be rethought if the head were regarded, not as just another focus for the racialization of the body, but as integral to the elaboration of a ‘biological’ conce…
How race became everything: Australia and polygenism
This paper seeks to explain the shift that took place in the mid-nineteenth century elaboration of a polygenist idea of race. Supplementing existing claims that increasing evidence about the diversity of humankind provided a context for this shift, the focus here is upon British colonial encounters in Australia. It is against the background of what was considered to be a distinctly human separation from, and capacity to rise above, nature that, w…
In the Place of Trans‐disciplinary Space
Beyond Savagery: The Limits of Australian 'Aboriginalism
Ideas and representations of the supposedly savage condition of the New World's indigenous peoples have informed a now familiar account of colonialism. These have been understood as the 'constructions' of a discourse concerned to justify its colonisation of indigenous lands, and to legitimate its dispossession of indigenous peoples. There is no doubt that racial stereotypes were invoked to support colonialism. But their instrumentalisation-as sel…
The Idea of Chinatown: The Power of Place and Institutional Practice in the Making of a Racial Category
Racial categories are cultural ascriptions whose construction and transmission cannot be taken for granted. I focus here on the process by which racial categories are themselves constructed; in particular, I examine the presence of place and the role of state in the making of one such category, the "Chinese," in a British settler society from the 1880s to the 1920s. I argue that "Chinatown," like race, is an idea that belongs to the "white" Europ…
Cultural Hegemony and the Race-Definition Process in Chinatown, Vancouver: 1880-1980
The study of systems of racial classification is not well developed in the social sciences. Within the liberal tradition of race relations research, race has more often been taken for granted than made an object of explanation itself. Marxist analysts, on the other hand, have tended to treat race, like other ideologies, as derivative of more decisive economic pressures under capitalism. Neither of these 'idealist' or materialist' perspectives giv…
Chinatown Re‐oriented’: A Critical Analysis of Recent Redevelopment Schemes in a Melbourne and Sydney Enclave
This paper develops a critical analysis of Chinatown redevelopment schemes undertaken by State governments in Victoria and New South Wales since the early 1970s, This period marks a transition in Australian management strategy toward minority groups from one of assimilation/discrimination to cultural pluralism. At the local level, this shift has been marked by efforts on the part of planners and politicians to promote Chinatown for its perceived …
Vancouver’s Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875-1980
Popular wisdom maintains that the colourful Chinese quarters of Canadian, American, and Australian cities owe their existence to the generations of Chinese immigrants who have made their lives there. The restaurants, pagodas, and neon lights are seen as intrinsically connected to the Chinese and their immigrant experience in the West. Kay Anderson argues, however, that "Chinatown" is a Western construction, illustrative of a process of cultural d…
Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875-1980
Place narratives and the origins of inner Sydney's Aboriginal settlement, 1972-73
Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875-1980
Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875-1980
Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875-1980
Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875-1980
Journal Article Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875–1980 Get access Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875–1980. By Anderson Kay J.. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991. x + 323 pp. Illustrations, map, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.) Xinyang Wang Xinyang Wang Washington State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarter…
Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875-1980
Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875-1980
Culture and Nature at the Adelaide Zoo: At the Frontiers of 'Human' Geography
In the Place of Trans‐disciplinary Space
From Urban Aborigines to Aboriginality and the City: One Path Through the History of Australian Cultural Geography
This paper charts one idiosyncratic and rather personalised path through the emergence of cultural geography in the Australian context. It takes as its example the transition from research which examines a category group identified as 'urban Aborigines' to more recent research of our own which looks at the theme of how Aboriginality is articulated in and through the space of the city. This transition provides a way of registering some broader cha…
A walk on the wild side: A Critical Geography of Domestication
Against a backdrop of growing interest in animal geographies and the genetic engineering of species, this article critically examines the process of animal domestication. To date, the social selection and breeding of animals have received little deconstructive effort from human scientists. The article begins by reviewing earlier schools of geographic thought on domestication, including the work of Carl Sauer, for whom domestication was a transhis…
Making a Difference: A geographer's view from the top-an interview with Fay Gale
This interview was conducted in December 1997 when Professor Fay Gale retired, having completed a highly successful career as a geography academic and university administrator in Australia, most recently as Vice-Chancellor at the University of Western Australia. The interview explores her professional and personal development as well as her views of research, teaching, geography, the problems and prospects for women in academia and the state of h…
Animal Domestication in Geographic Perspective
What, exactly, makes humans human? A close look at nonhuman animal domestication practices reveals how people came to view their own uniqueness in western cultural process. The study of domestication across time shows the multiple human impulses underlying acts of animal enclosure and domestication. Animals can be beloved companions or eaten for a meal. These impulses involve contradictory moralities-a rich subject for inquiries into the dynamics…
Science and the Savage: The Linnean Society of New South Wales, 1874-1900
Thinking “Postnationally”: Dialogue across Multicultural, Indigenous, and Settler Spaces
The Beast within: Race, Humanity, and Animality
Recent years have seen efforts to critique the dichotomy of 'nature' and 'society' in Western thought, and to demonstrate their coconstruction under specific material conditions. As yet, however, little work has uncovered the discourses of animality that lie buried within a social field whose ontological status until recently has been securely 'human'. In this paper, I show how Western concepts of animality have circulated across the nature borde…
The Racialization of Difference: Enlarging the Story Field
In this article, I explore ways of loosening the interpretive grid of "race" in critical geographical analysis without obscuring that concept's efficacy as a social force. In recent years, social constructivist perspectives on race have brought much evidence to bear on the logics of race/power formations in America and other British settler societies. The risk of petrifying "race" in the analysis of social life and reinscribing the very power tha…
North American spaces/postcolonial stories
Handbook of Cultural Geography
Sociology (38 works) · Political science (29 works) · Geography (20 works) · History (19 works) · Law (19 works) · Law (18 works) · Archaeology (17 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (16 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · Chinatown (13 works)