Racialised Bodies Encounter the City
Long Grassers' and Asylum Seekers in Darwin
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3608231 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Lobo (0000-0001-7733-666X) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 454-465 |
| Publication date | 2013-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Intercultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-6868 • E-ISSN: 1469-9540 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07256868.2013.821722 |
| OpenAlex | W1991292271 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 18 |
The visibility of bodies of colour in public space can engender responses of anxiety, insecurity and discomfort in cities with white majority cultures. Such embodied responses that privilege the invisibility of whiteness have effects if they mark Aboriginal people and asylum seekers who arrive by boat as ‘out of place’ in public spaces of Australian cities. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Darwin, I argue, however, that such white spaces are interrupted by habits of touch, multi-sensory events that contribute to fleshy moments of belonging for these racialised bodies that experience dispossession and displacement. Such belonging emerges from the intertwining fleshiness of bodies in a world where we affect and are affected by other bodies and things. The paper explores two events held in public spaces of suburban Darwin, a weekly painting activity at a beach reserve that engages ‘Long Grassers’, Aboriginal people who live in open spaces, and a cooking session at a community centre that welcomes asylum-seeker families from a detention centre. Felix Ravaisson's philosophy of habit as virtue and spontaneous practice is a starting point for thinking about how haptic knowledges can provide a nuanced understanding of belonging, encounter and ethical engagement in a racially diverse white settler city
Aesthetics · Art · Criminology · Dance · Invisibility · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Privilege (computing · Public space · Refugee · Sociology · Solidarity · Visual arts · White (mutation · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Gender Studies · Law
Momente kritischer Forschungspraxis in de/kolonialen Verhältnissen
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Heat, health, and humidity in Australia's monsoon tropics
Green and Blue Infrastructure in Darwin; Carbon Economies and the Social and Cultural Dimensions of Valuing Urban Mangroves in Australia
Battling the tropics to settle a nation
A tale of three villages
Enroling around—Reconfiguring place and space in the wake of a new reception centre in a small rural town
Micro Aggressions and Connections in the Context of National Multiculturalism
Encountering the city
Re-framing the creative city
On geography and encounter
Encountering Each Other in Glasgow
The politics of algorithmic governance in the black box city
Central African Refugee Women Resettled in Australia
More than a Game
Meaningful intercultural contact
Objects in focus groups
Geopower in public spaces of Darwin, Australia
Colonialism and the Tensioned Landscapes of Indigeneity
Cities of Whiteness
Agitating the Powers of Habit
Collective culture and urban public space
Whiteness and futurity
Racism out of Place
Haptic geographies
Commentary
The Cunning of Recognition
Living cities
Reading Suvendrini Perera's Australia and the Insular Imagination
Geographies of Touch/Touched by Geography
Race, Affect, and Emotion
Contact Zones
A phenomenology of whiteness
Thinking Habits for Uncertain Subjects
White socio-spatial epistemology
Sensuous Multiculturalism
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,64 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |