Racial urbanities: towards a global cartography

Picker, Giovanni; Murji, Karim; Boatcă, Manuela

doi:10.1080/13504630.2017.1418606

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“…Therefore, through the racial neoliberal urbanism that the Ghetto Package is an example of, we also see how certain ideas are implicit about who is displaceable and who is desirable, which go beyond the specific interventions, so much that nobody even seems to question it: the predominant subject is the White male in all the proposed developmental plans. Now, obviously this rests on previous processes of racialization that goes beyond the specific law as such (as several authors such as Risager, 2022b;Olsen andLarsen, 2022 andSimonsen, 2016 have shown very elegantly), but more importantly, it also goes beyond Danish society and point at tendencies that one might argue are more common for urban planning in general (much like authors such as Giovanni Picker et al, 2019, and Ha and Picker 2022 seem to suggest), but also to the neoliberal Capitalist State in its management of poverty and more importantly the so-called surplus populations (Lundsteen, 2020;Smith, 2011;Soederberg, 2021;Wacquant, 2010).…”

Section: Mjølnerparkenmentioning

confidence: 89%

Displacing the other to unite the nation: The parallel society legislation in Denmark

Lundsteen

2023

European Urban and Regional Studies

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In 2018, the then right-wing government in Denmark led by Lars Løkke Rasmussen and supported by the extreme right-wing party Danish People’s Party presented new legislation to end ‘parallel societies’ in Denmark by toughening the criminal law, enforcing Danish knowledge and nursery school assistance to toddlers, and, more importantly for this article, a series of urban interventions in ‘ghetto areas’ considered as such mainly when the proportion of immigrants and descendants from non-Western countries exceeded 50 per cent. Until recently research has focused on either the discursive elements of the ‘ghetto politics’ in Denmark or the urban interventions from an architectural or urban planning point of view. However, newfangled research deal with the entwined economic elements. In this article, I compare the different developmental plans proposed in the affected areas because of the legislation, with an aim to reach further and point at the inherent elements of urban b/ordering, that is, measures taken to attain social order and gain legitimacy by demarcating categories of people to incorporate some and exclude others through urban space. Indeed, through this comparison, I conclude that the ghetto legislation is a compelling example of the urban b/ordering inherent to the politics and dynamics of current liberal capitalist social democracies. It is a social experiment that remodels the geography of Denmark in terms that recall the eugenic and hygienic social and urban policies of the 19th century and form part of a worrying pattern that may have consequences that go beyond the stated ones.

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Section: Mjølnerparkenmentioning

confidence: 89%

Displacing the other to unite the nation: The parallel society legislation in Denmark

Lundsteen

2023

European Urban and Regional Studies

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“…The Other commentators have sought to apprehend Brexit as a post-imperial 'nationalist spasm', incorporating a wider set of constituencies (including middle class and rural England) failed by the decline of the British empire and the UKs diminishing political and economic significance in the world (see Sykes in this collection). Brexit is a nostalgic reflex which betrays an imperial yearning to restore Britain's lost place in the world (Bachmann and Sidaway 2016, and Picker et al 2018, Dorling and Tomlinson 2019. In their book Small Brittania Dorling and Tomlinson (2019 15) capture this line of argument succinctly: 'in the near future the EU referendum will become widely recognised and understood as part of the last vestiges of empire working their way out of the British psyche'.…”

Section: Brexit Geographies: Five Provocationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introducing ‘Brexit Geographies’: five provocations

Boyle¹,

Paddison²,

Shirlow³

2020

Brexit Geographies

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This Special Issue (SI) of Space and Polity profiles the varied contributions of geographical inquiry to scholarly debates on the causes, meaning and implications of the UKs decision to Brexit from the EU. By way of framing the SI, this Introduction develops the argument that insofar as it is confronting, complicating and challenging geographical ideas and debates, Brexit recursively is intruding on and perhaps even implicating itself in the structuration of geographic thought and practice, most immediately in the UK and in European states particularly impacted (not least Ireland) and especially with respect to political geographical research. We develop this argument through five provocations, questioning the ways in which Brexit exists as a troubling reality for: a) critical policy studies; b) the project of decolonising geography; c) historiographies of human territorialisation and sovereignty; d) the status of evidence-based public policy in a post-political and post-truth age, and; e) the management of risk, hazards, and disasters. A completing/completed Brexit we conclude, may bequeath a tradition of 'Brexit Geographies' and therein leave an enduring signature on the history of Anglo-European geographic thought.

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“…With these considerations in mind, we organized in 2018 linked sessions on Post-racial Urbanities: A Global Cartography at the ISA Forum in Toronto, and Racial and Post-racial Senses of Place at the ASA annual meeting in Philadelphia. Six of the seven articles included in this special issue were presented at these sessions, which followed on a 2016 ISA Forum session that we organised and produced as a special issue on Racial Urbanities: A Global Cartography (Picker et al 2019).…”

Section: Placing Sociologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With these considerations in mind, we organized in 2018 linked sessions on “Post-racial Urbanities: A Global Cartography” at the ISA Forum in Toronto, and “Racial and Post-racial Senses of Place” at the ASA annual meeting in Philadelphia. Six of the seven articles included in this special issue were presented at these sessions, which followed on a 2016 ISA Forum session that we organized and produced as a special issue on “Racial Urbanities: A Global Cartography” (Picker et al , 2019). In that special issue, we called for new conversations about the racial and the urban conjointly, from global yet non-totalizing perspectives, against the background of rarely intersecting global scholarships on race on one hand and cities on the other.…”

Section: Placing Sociologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Race and place

Murji

Picker

2019

IJSSP

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue on race and place. Design/methodology/approach The approach used by the authors is to combine an overview of sociological debates on place within a framework that makes the case for a relational approach to race, space and place. Findings The overview provides an account of place in sociology, of the relationality of race and place, and the making of race and place in sociological work. Originality/value The Introduction sets the papers in context, providing a short account of each of them; it also aims to present an argument for attention to race and place in sociology in a setting characterized by racism and reaction.

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Racial urbanities: towards a global cartography

Cited by 10 publications

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Displacing the other to unite the nation: The parallel society legislation in Denmark

Displacing the other to unite the nation: The parallel society legislation in Denmark

Introducing ‘Brexit Geographies’: five provocations

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