Constructions of ‘race’, place and discipline: Geographies of ‘racial’ identity and racism

Bonnett, Alastair

doi:10.1080/01419870.1996.9993939

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“…No prior opinion poll had speci cally examined racialism and the conducting of a new survey was beyond the present budget of the project reported on here. Racialism should, however, be a core component of any future analytical geographies of racism (Bonnett 1996;Kobayashi & Peake 2000, p. 393).…”

Section: Researching Australian Racisms and Anti-racismsmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…The vast majority of studies on the extent of racism have generally made little if any attempt to appreciate spatial variations in the intensity, nature and de nition of racism (Kobayashi & Peake 2000, p. 400). 1 Geographers in the UK and elsewhere have begun to focus on racism, replacing a prior emphasis upon 'racial' distributions or 'race' relations (Bonnett 1996). Recent geographical work of this type in Australia has focused on the spatialised nature 30 K. M. Dunn & A. McDonald of racialisation (see Anderson 1990;Dunn 1998a).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These variations have been largely ignored in the development of anti-racism policy in Australia. 2 It is in this particular sense that space does matter to the issue of racism (Bonnett 1996).…”

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The Geography of Racisms in NSW: A theoretical exploration and some preliminary findings from the mid-1990s

Dunn¹,

McDonald²

2001

Australian Geographer

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The spatial variation of racisms is an under-researched eld of inquiry, certainly in Australia. This paper explores the geographies of racism in New South Wales. Responses to three opinion polls conducted between 1994 and 1996 were used to construct patterns of racisms across NSW. Preliminary ndings suggest a substantive degree of racism in NSW. There was little evidence of an urban-rural variation in terms of ethnocentrism. Examination of regional variations confounds this simple division. Social Constructionist theory is put forward as a spatially sensitive theory for understanding and responding to the geographies of racism. The identi cation of regional variations in racism is crucial to the development of regionally speci c anti-racism campaigns. This paper highlights the need for more comprehensive analyses of the varying causes and remedies for racisms.

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The Geography of Racisms in NSW: A theoretical exploration and some preliminary findings from the mid-1990s

Dunn¹,

McDonald²

2001

Australian Geographer

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“…Critical social theorists have referred to the normalcy of racism: a context of White privilege associated with a way of life and thinking where racism is not consciously seen, or is considered an exceptional aberration (Bonnett, 1996;Kobayashi and Peake, 2000, pp. 393-397).…”

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“…However, scholarship on spatial variations to these attitudes has been decidedly sparse and largely non-existent in recent decades (Pettigrew, 1959;Robinson, 1987;Schaefer, 1975). Contemporary geographical scholarship has excelled at identifying how racialisation operates within place and how racialisation is placed (Bonnett, 1996;Durrheim and Dixon, 2001), but the study of spatial variation in racist attitudes and experiences, and of racialisation, has been neglected. Yet, as shown in the next section, contemporary geographical theory makes a compelling case for research on the spatially varied nature of community relations and nationalism.…”

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Constructing Racism in Sydney, Australia's Largest EthniCity

Forrest

Dunn

2007

Urban Studies

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Summary. Contemporary Australia is in a contradictory situation as a nation where multiculturalism co-exists with various forms of what are collectively called racisms. Based on a survey of Sydney residents, this study uses a social constructivist approach to investigate the nature and sociospatial context of racist attitudes in Sydney, Australia's largest EthniCity. Results show a mix of compositional (aspatial) and contextual (spatial) associations with racisms. The former indicate a general but inconsistent relationship between socioeconomic status and tolerance, and also between cultural diversity and tolerance. The latter, however, reveal placebased cultures of tolerance and intolerance cutting across compositional relationships. A geography of racism in Sydney therefore adds a level of understanding which cannot be obtained from aspatial analysis alone. This helps to understand the complexity of local political cultures and can assist with the formulation of anti-racism interventions.

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Constructing Racism in Australia

Dunn¹,

Forrest²,

Burnley³

et al. 2004

Aust J Social Issues

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There is a dearth of empirical evidence on the extent of racist attitudes, broadly defined, in Australia. A telephone survey of 5056 residents in Queensland and NSW examined attitudes to cultural difference, perceptions of the extent of racism, tolerance of specific groups, ideology of nation, perceptions of Anglo‐Celtic cultural privilege, and belief in racialism, racial separatism and racial hierarchy. The research was conducted within a social constructivist understanding of racisms. Racist attitudes are positively associated with age, non‐tertiary education, and to a slightly lesser extent with those who do not speak a language other than English, the Australia‐born, and with males. Anti‐Muslim sentiment is very strong, but there is also a persistence of some intolerance against Asian, Indigenous and Jewish Australians. Those who believe in racial hierarchy and separatism (old racisms) are a minority and are largely the same people who self‐identify as being prejudiced. The ‘new racisms’ of cultural intolerance, denial of Anglo‐privilege and narrow constructions of nation have a much stronger hold. Nonetheless, sociobiologically related understandings of race and nation remain linked to these new racisms. Narrow understandings of what constitutes a nation (and a community) are in tension with equally widely held liberal dispositions towards cultural diversity and dynamism. Encouragingly, most respondents recognise racism as a problem in Australian society and this is a solid basis for anti‐racism initiatives.

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Constructions of ‘race’, place and discipline: Geographies of ‘racial’ identity and racism

Cited by 61 publications

References 20 publications

The Geography of Racisms in NSW: A theoretical exploration and some preliminary findings from the mid-1990s

The Geography of Racisms in NSW: A theoretical exploration and some preliminary findings from the mid-1990s

Constructing Racism in Sydney, Australia's Largest EthniCity

Constructing Racism in Australia

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