The Everyday, ‘Ordinary’ Citizens, and Ambiguous Governance Affect in Antwerp

Vollebergh, Anick

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-49598-5_5

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“…The case of nuisance resilience workshops proves that Dutch local institutions encounter similar difficulties in the “affective governance” (Vollebergh, 2020, p. 112) of White middle‐class dispositions toward non‐Dutch ethnic minorities as they do with their working‐class counterparts (Wekker, 2017). At the same time, it calls for careful consideration of how the unintentional enrolling and transmissions of racialized sensory knowledge in state‐sponsored personal security initiatives can impede the emergence of tolerance and reinforce hatred toward racialized others.…”

Section: Sensing the Folk Devil In The Indische Buurtmentioning

confidence: 99%

Navigating danger through nuisance: Racialized urban fears, gentrification, and sensory enskilment in Amsterdam

Fiore

2023

City & Society

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In this article, I employ the notion of sensory enskilment to investigate the embodied relations through which White Dutch middle‐class residents of the Indische Buurt, a rapidly gentrifying multicultural neighborhood in the east of Amsterdam, learn to tune in to sensory nuisance to discern safe and unsafe bodies and places in their surroundings. The analysis involves examining those institutional and interactional avenues of (unwitting) sensory learning through which habituated perceptual patterns of stigmatization that conflate the everyday sensory order of Moroccan‐Dutch youths with feelings of urban insecurity are cultivated, produced, and consolidated. Studying the ways in which sensory knowledge is implicated in the reproduction of socioeconomic exclusions in contested urban territories can shed new light on discussions around urban sensory politics and draw attention to the enrolment of the senses in revanchist urban renewal.

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Section: Sensing the Folk Devil In The Indische Buurtmentioning

confidence: 99%