Economic Geographies of Race and Ethnicity: Explorations in Continuity and Change

Mullings, Beverley

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“…This would offer important insights into the multiplicity of ways race and racism are inextricably linked to economic modes of production on behalf of the state by considering how the racial state came to be what it is and follow the logics it does, when governing the economy. Mullings () argues that while human geographers have utilized political economy approaches to examine inequalities that affect different racial and ethnic groups, “few have looked at the discursive and material practices and processes by which social constructions of race and ethnicity structure and transform economic relations” (p. 411). For instance, some have examined race in the context of neoliberalization moving towards a more nuanced epistemological approach where “institutions matter” in the making of economic geographies (Wyly, 2009; Roberts & Mahtani, ; Theodore, ) and have attempted to fill gaps in the literature by moving away from an economic reductionist approach and incorporating forms of regulatory capacities, governing routines, and institutional regimes to highlight how race is produced and maintained.…”

Section: Centralizing Race In Geographymentioning

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Rethinking geographies of race and austerity urbanism

Phinney

2020

Geography Compass

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Austerity has become a key consideration for studying ongoing state restructuring of the urban since the economic crisis of 2008. However, academic debates have yet to fully interrogate the role of race in this process. This article reviews geographic literature on race and austerity. It outlines the emergence of austerity urbanism, and the geographic, sociological, and political science literatures from which it draws its origins from. Focusing on the interplay between race/racialization and austerity, this article engages with critical theories of race to better understand the “raced” nature of austerity, and how these processes shape cities. Critical theories of race have been influential in linking race to forms of state power and governance in geography, while also exploring racism as a material and discursive formation that is connected across space and time by capital. Austerity urbanism literature has yet to develop a sophisticated analysis of the racialized dimensions of austerity in the U.S. context. Rather, scholarship up to date theorizes race through fixed categories, where racialized groups are seen and mapped onto austerity policy outcomes. In this paper, I propose that critical theories of race can provide an analytical framework for geographers to better understand the relations between race and austerity through the lens of racial capitalism by revealing how periods of neoliberalization are organized along racial lines and operate through and upon terrains of racial domination and empire. This means framing race and racism as a process (i.e., racialization) that is inextricably embedded in the logic of the neoliberal project. This paper concludes with commentary on possible future directions, both empirical and conceptual, that engagements with racial capitalism can offer to the literature on austerity urbanism to interrogate race, power, and justice across the Global North and South.

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Rethinking geographies of race and austerity urbanism

Phinney

2020

Geography Compass

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“…This includes scholarship within geography on the histories of urban slavery in Canada (McKittrick, 2006) as well as research on contemporary urban economies that is explicated through the geohistorical contexts of slavery (Ramírez, 2015). Yet despite this path-breaking scholarship, feminist geographers of colour continue to point out how bodies of knowledge like these remain un-or underacknowledged within both urban and economic geography (e.g., Mahtani, 2014;McKittrick, 2006;Mullings, 2012;Pulido, 2002). The failure of these subdisciplines to contend more robustly with this scholarship is a major elision, particularly as some of this scholarship calls into question Marxist epistemologies of "labour" as a legitimate frame of analysis of power, accumulation, and subject formation within processes of urban economic change.…”

Section: Urban Slavery Colonial Accumulation and The Production Omentioning

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Labour and the city: Some notes across theory and research

Buckley

2018

Geography Compass

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At a time of growing interest in research and theory concerning urban space and urban workers, this article explores three divergent strands of scholarly research and theory that are producing new perspectives on the relations of labour, work, and employment with processes of urbanization, the production of urban space or city life. Drawing together research and debates both within geography and outside of it, this article briefly reviews emerging urban scholarship on labour in the so‐called “sharing economy,” historical research on the distinctly urban histories of slavery in North America, the Caribbean, Africa, and South America, and the often unpaid and highly gendered labour of urban homesteading and autonomous self‐provisioning in cities. This article does not strive to present comprehensive or masterful readings of these literatures but rather to explore some of the very different ways that “labour” is mobilized in them, noting the differences between them but also pointing to some of the insights about knowledge production on labour and city life that is offered by reading them together.

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“…Chin 2008;Guevarra 2014), and are therefore "perfectly suited" to work in care work and service-oriented industries. Prevailing stereotypes that certain kinds of jobs are best performed by certain groups normalize the discursive framing of labour identity, denying migrant workers the ability to access a higher degree of entitlement, acknowledgement, and upward social mobility in host societies (see Kelly 2012;Mullings 2012).…”

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Ethnic Migrants and Casinos in Singapore and Macau

Zhang¹

2019

The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity

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This chapter offers an empirical account on migrant workers, their identities and their embodied experiences of labor hierarchy along ethnic lines in mega-casino resorts in Asia. As casino resorts become opportunities for fast-tract economic development and urban renewal in the region since 2010, the Asian gaming sector has become a major industry relying heavily on rural-urban, interregional and international migrant labour. With a focus on Filipino and Chinese casino workers in Singapore and Macau, this chapter explores complex inequalities experienced by migrants in a highly cosmopolitan and highly competitive work environment. Job hierarchies are often established based on cultural assumptions of particular characteristics and competencies attributed to different groups, consolidating classed and gendered stereotypes in the workplace. Although migrant workers in casinos try to resist negative ethnic stereotyping by emphasizing on their credentials and professionalism, they continue to perform the identity of the "perfect worker" with an "Asian-style" of conformity, self-discipline, and flexibility.

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Economic Geographies of Race and Ethnicity: Explorations in Continuity and Change

Cited by 7 publications

References 42 publications

Rethinking geographies of race and austerity urbanism

Rethinking geographies of race and austerity urbanism

Labour and the city: Some notes across theory and research

Ethnic Migrants and Casinos in Singapore and Macau

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