Geopower in public spaces of Darwin, Australia

Exploring Forces That Unsettle Phenotypical Racism

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ID2147181
AuthorsM Lobo (0000-0001-7733-666X, Deakin University, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume39
Issue1
Pages68-86
Publication date2016-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2016.1096407
OpenAlexW2184458073
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited35

This paper reports the results of ethnographic research conducted in Darwin, a north Australian city with a growing population of Aboriginals and migrant newcomers. It is situated within the emerging literature on race, encounter, and affect and explores how events of phenotypical racism unfold in public spaces of the city. The paper argues that negative affects of hurt, anger, and frustration that saturate places through events of coding, labelling, and judging bodies hypervisible through phenotype have the potential to mutate through attention to forces in a more-than-human world. This paper shows that Elizabeth Grosz's concept of 'geopower', a non-human form of power that precedes and exceeds human social relations, provides the possibility to reconfigure anti-racist agendas - bodies of colour not only maintain minimum human dignity but affirm life and learn to live ethically with difference

Affect (linguistics · Darwin (ADL · Dignity · Political science · Population · Power (physics · Race (biology · Racism · Situated · Sociology · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Law · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

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