The racial division of nature

Making land in Recife

Bibliographic Data

ID8964282
AuthorsArchie Davies (0000-0001-7421-419X, Department of Geography University of Sheffield Sheffield UK, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume46
Issue2
Pages270-283
Publication date2020-11-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/tran.12426
OpenAlexW3108544280
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited46

In this paper I analyse the making and unmaking of amphibious urban modernity in Recife in the Northeast of Brazil in the first half of the 20th century. I argue that the transformation of the city was predicated on an absorptive and eradicative notion of whiteness that required the enclosure of wet, amphibious space to make dry land. The process of urban transformation proceeded not only through a racial division of space, but through a racial division of nature

Division (mathematics · Enclosure · Geography · Modernity · Political science · Race (biology · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Transformation (genetics · Engineering · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Planning and Governance · Water Governance and Infrastructure

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