‘What are ya?’: negotiating identities in the western suburbs of Sydney during the 1980s

Simic, Zora

doi:10.1080/14443050802056748

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“…Suburbs are ubiquitous in the Australian context, forming an integral component of urban life (Davison 1995, Randolph andFreestone 2008). Beyond a spatial or locational geography, suburbs are also sociological and relational entities that evoke a sense of home, place and territory, socio-physical homogeneity, social connection, and access (Howard 2011, Simic 2008. In addition, in terms of population size, the suburbs of Adelaide approximate the scale of US-based census tracts (these ranging in size from 1200 to 8000 people; United…”

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A Longitudinal Typology of Neighbourhood-level Social Fragmentation: A Finite Mixture Model Approach

Lekkas¹,

Howard²,

Stankov³

et al. 2019

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Neighbourhoods are social enclaves. And, from an epidemiological vantage there is substantive research examining how social traits of neighbourhoods affect health. However, this research has often focused on the effects of social deprivation. Less attention has been given to social fragmentation (SF), a construct aligned with the notions of lesser: social cohesion, social capital, collective functioning, and social isolation. Concurrently, there has been limited research that has described the spatial and temporal patterning of neighbourhood-level social traits. With a focus on SF the main aims of this paper were to model and describe the time-varying and spatial nature of SF.Conceptually, this research was informed by ‘thinking in time’ and by the ‘lifecourse-of-place’ perspective. While, from an analytical perspective, a longitudinal (3-time points over 10-years) neighbourhood database was created for the metropolitan region of Adelaide, Australia. Latent Transition Analysis was then used to model the developmental profile of SF where neighbourhoods were proxied by ‘suburbs’, and the measurement model for SF was formed of 9-conceptually related census-based indicators. A four-class, nominal-level latent status model of SF was identified: class-A=low SF; class-B=mixed-level SF/inner urban; class-C=mixed-level SF/peri-urban; and class-D=high SF. Class-A and -D neighbourhoods were the most prevalent at all time points. And, while certain neighbourhoods were inferred to have changed their SF class across time, most neighbourhoods were characterised by intransience.

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A Longitudinal Typology of Neighbourhood-level Social Fragmentation: A Finite Mixture Model Approach

Lekkas¹,

Howard²,

Stankov³

et al. 2019

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“…Although a proper study of the relationship between these two categories is beyond the scope of this paper, Simic's (2007Simic's ( , 2008 research on westies suggests a degree of caution should be exercised about simply equating 'bogan' with 'white working class'. 'Westie' is a complex category.…”

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Bogans: a sticky subject

Rossiter

2012

Continuum

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“…Perhaps due to its location in Western Sydney, Sauna 3 caters to clients of diverse racial backgrounds. Sydney’s population is highly divided along the lines of race and socioeconomic level that often run parallel (Simic 2008). Although in my visit most clients were white, Mike said, “we have many races coming here: there are whites, Asians, Afghans and Indians.” In Sauna 3 the category of age is more important than race since most clients are “mature.” Because of the limited operating hours for male-only clientele and its location, Sauna 3 is less known by Asian gay men in Sydney and, therefore, holds less relevance in this manuscript.…”

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“…Perhaps due to its location in Western Sydney, Sauna 3 caters to clients of diverse racial backgrounds. Sydney's population is highly divided along the lines of race and socioeconomic level that often run parallel (Simic 2008).…”

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In the Saunas I’m Either Invisible or Camouflaged: Colonial Fantasies and Imaginations in Sydney’s Gay Saunas

Toledo

2023

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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I analyze racism in Sydney’s gay sauna scene through decolonial scholarship. In Sydney, there are three gay saunas; each of them caters to specific races and is decorated accordingly. Sauna 1 is popular among Asian men and their admirers and has an Oriental-like style. Sauna 2 is popular among white and non-Asian men and has a minimalist style featuring photographs of white, cisgender and muscular men. Sauna 3 is mostly visited by white and Middle Eastern straight-acting men and its décor does not reference race. Both patrons and venue owners are aware of the race dynamics in Sydney’s gay scene and actively reproduce them in the patronage of venues and organization and décor of space. I conclude that Sydney’s gay sauna scene is articulated by a combination of colonial understandings of race and Australian multicultural policies that privilege white and Anglo populations while avoiding explicit references to race.

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‘What are ya?’: negotiating identities in the western suburbs of Sydney during the 1980s

Cited by 6 publications

References 1 publication

A Longitudinal Typology of Neighbourhood-level Social Fragmentation: A Finite Mixture Model Approach

A Longitudinal Typology of Neighbourhood-level Social Fragmentation: A Finite Mixture Model Approach

Bogans: a sticky subject

In the Saunas I’m Either Invisible or Camouflaged: Colonial Fantasies and Imaginations in Sydney’s Gay Saunas

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