New Geographies of Race and Racism

Dwyer, Claire; Bressey, Caroline

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“…This paper examines municipal cemeteries as spaces of social inclusion and exclusion within the context of the needs of established minority and migrant groups in English and Welsh non-metropolitan settlements, referred to as "towns" for the purpose of this study. Towns and suburbs have been relatively neglected in both urban studies and work on ethnicity (Clayton, 2008;Dwyer & Bressey, 2008), and, likewise, studies of cemeteries tend to focus on big cities such as London or rural contexts (Francis et al, 2005). Yet towns, their spatial organisation, and trends are of particular interest because they are increasingly recognised as dynamic sites of demographic change, and consequently encapsulate unstudied experience of "living with difference" in and through plural and contested notions of place (Amin, 2002(Amin, , 2004, and as such are geopolitical arenas.…”

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Intersections of (infra)structural violence and cultural inclusion: The geopolitics of minority cemeteries and crematoria provision

Maddrell

McNally

Beebeejaun

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Trans Inst British Geog

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Building on embodied and de-colonial approaches to geopolitics, this paper examines the relationship between forms of governance in municipal cemetery and crematorium provision and the needs of established minorities, arguing that inadequate infrastructure and services can constitute harm. Crucially, it is contended that forms of governance impact not only on the living, but also on perceptions of the wellbeing of the dead. Grounded in a study of four towns in England and Wales, the paper identifies firstly how intersectional identity fundamentally shapes people's experiences of deathscape governance; secondly, the possibilities of infrastructural benefits of inclusive services; and thirdly, the harms done by non-inclusive forms of governance, implicit territoriality and inadequate infrastructure. This is evidenced in the negative impact of poor municipal cemetery organisation and management on specific minority groups, such as inadequate burial space, high burial costs, hindrances to timely rituals, and reduced access to services as a result of government austerity measures; as well as protracted local planning processes. The conclusion calls for a wider conceptualisation of necropolitics, based on a critical-feminist-decolonial geopolitics of deathscapes in multicultural societies, and offers insights for the practical governance of inclusive cemeteries and crematoria.

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Intersections of (infra)structural violence and cultural inclusion: The geopolitics of minority cemeteries and crematoria provision

Maddrell

McNally

Beebeejaun

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Trans Inst British Geog

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“…The horizon of their influence also indexes competing ideas about the place of Black US Americans within transnational African diasporic politics. Building upon debates about the Black/African diasporic tradition as a divergent and diverse set of geographical projects (Bledsoe and Wright ; Bressey ; McKittrick and Woods ), this article shows how variegated political allegiances and conflicting conceptualisations of global affairs become articulated through the site of Birmingham, Alabama. I analyse the figures of Condoleezza Rice and Angela Davis and their memories of the city of their childhoods.…”

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Memories of an Imperial City: Race, Gender, and Birmingham, Alabama

Meché

2020

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September 15, 2013, marked the 50 th anniversary of the 16 th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. The bombing remains one of the most infamous events in the history of white supremacist violence in the United States. While conventional accounts of the event and its aftermath often consider the legal restructuring of the US state following the passage of subsequent Civil Rights legislation, little has been written about the transnational significance of Birmingham in shaping the character of US power abroad. This article argues that memorialisation and cultural architecture of Birmingham represent a significant crucible forging a particular style of liberal empire. Tracing a cultural genealogy of Birmingham through the writings of former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and famed scholar-activist Angela Davis, I demonstrate how Birmingham, as a site of historic black struggle, has been remembered alongside the place-making of empire.

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“…Other work has taken a race‐based perspective in examining the significance of place, exploring questions around racism encountered across diverse geographic spaces (Bonnett, ; Bressey, ; Webster, ), and the whiteness of space and white privilege (Lawler, ; Rothenberg, ; Slocum, ). In the context of educational research, there is a body of work examining the educational encounters and experiences of students of colour, exploring higher education and elite university settings, and in relation to their mobility trajectories to university, including the ethnic composition of their origin and destination geographic locations (Ball, Reay, & David, ; Dumangane, ; Gamsu, Donnelly, & Harris, ; Khambhaita & Bhopal, ).…”

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Spatial structures of student mobility: Social, economic and ethnic ‘geometries of power'

Donnelly

Gamsu

2019

Population Space and Place

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There now exists a growing literature on educational mobilities, and this paper contributes to understanding the way contemporary youth imagine the geography of the United Kingdom and how this translates to their mobility intentions. Using Giddens and Massey and drawing on a unique multi-sited qualitative dataset, we examine how these flows can be understood as embedded within narratives of the self that are situated within a particular spatial structuring of social, economic, and ethnic difference. The multi-sited dataset provides a unique opportunity to see the simultaneity of these social relations across space, mutually shaping, and reshaping each other over time. We illustrate how embedded within imagined mobility narratives are deeply unequal structures of economic power, (re)producing oppressed and dominant positions across social and geographic space. Geometries of race and ethnicity are also shown to structure the ways in which different ethnic groups look upon the geography of their university choices. The patterning of these imagined spatial flows around the United Kingdom at the point of university entry can be interpreted as one further manifestation of deep-seated geometries of power that pervade social life.

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New Geographies of Race and Racism

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Intersections of (infra)structural violence and cultural inclusion: The geopolitics of minority cemeteries and crematoria provision

Intersections of (infra)structural violence and cultural inclusion: The geopolitics of minority cemeteries and crematoria provision

Memories of an Imperial City: Race, Gender, and Birmingham, Alabama

Spatial structures of student mobility: Social, economic and ethnic ‘geometries of power'

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