‘Here we go again’: Christchurch's antiracism rally as a discursive crisis

Kobayashi, Audrey

doi:10.1111/j.1745-7939.2009.01148.x

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“…International students are criticized for grouping together in the street, notwithstanding that Antipodean PBSAs typically offer no common spaces. Fincher and Shaw () argue that these prejudices can be interpreted as a “new racism” (Forrest & Dunn, , ; Kobayashi, ) that insists on incompatibility among cultural differences and that urges racialized populations to assimilate based on the covert superiority and normalcy of being “white”. These authors successfully demonstrated “how particular spatial arrangements and built forms can contribute to practices of racialisation in places” (Fincher & Shaw, , p. 541).…”

Section: Pbsas and Geographies Of Exclusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Expanding the scope of studentification studies

Nakazawa

2017

Geography Compass

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The term “studentification” refers to multifaceted urban transformations resulting from increases in and concentrations of student populations. Notably, this concept has been investigated with frequent reference to gentrification studies from both spatial and temporal perspectives. In this regard, spatial perspectives focus on the common urban spatial processes that studentification and gentrification share, whereas temporal perspectives assume students as candidates to become gentrifiers. This essay reorganizes the literature consistently with these two perspectives and aims to extend the limits of studentification studies beyond the epistemological constraints of gentrification.

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Section: Pbsas and Geographies Of Exclusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Expanding the scope of studentification studies

Nakazawa

2017

Geography Compass

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“…Without a public level of acknowledgment of Islamophobia there is no basis on which to mount a challenge to it. Denial is a fundamental weapon of new racism, in which Islamophobia is included (Babacan, 2008; Dunn and Nelson, 2011; Kobayashi, 2009; Van Dijk, 1992). There are many forms of racism denial (Nelson, 2013), and Islamophobia is associated with two particular forms.…”

Section: Islamophobia In the West: The Prevalence And The Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

Segmenting anti-Muslim sentiment in Australia: Insights for the diverse project of countering Islamophobia

2021

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Islamophobia is a global issue. Our nationwide survey of Australians, undertaken in 2015 and 2016, reveals the extent of this national calamity in Australia. But Islamophobia is not universal in its manifestation. Latent Class Analysis was used to develop a typology of Islamophobia in Australia. The results place Australians in four classes based on their perception of Islam: Islamophobes (13% of the population); those who are unsure about diversity and have some concerns about Muslims (24%), those with progressive attitudes about diversity but with concerns about Muslims (50%); and progressives who have no concerns about Muslims (13%). We offer a conceptual challenge to those who assert that there is a singular, legitimate approach to challenging Islamophobia. Our analysis offers a pragmatic enablement of the diverse work of those anti-racist practitioners who undertake the day-to-day work of challenging Islamophobia in our schools, workplaces, community and recreation venues.

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“…Another example that elucidates some of the political drivers of denial can be found in Kobayashi’s (2009) analysis of the way an anti-racism rally precipitated a discursive crisis around whether racism was really a problem in Christchurch, New Zealand. Kobayashi argued that the public could be broadly divided into three groups: those who expressed outright denial; those who saw a small minority of individuals as responsible for racism; and those who acknowledged racism was a significant issue needing attention.…”

Section: Denial Of Racism: a Review Of The Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…This was, at times, in spite of the fact that part of the interview process involved presenting the participant with statistics about reported experiences of racism in their local area. I refer to this as an absence discourse , where one claims there is no racism (Kobayashi, 2009; Nelson et al, 2011).…”

Section: Discourses Of Denial In the Case Study Areasmentioning

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Denial of racism and its implications for local action

Nelson

2013

Discourse & Society

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Literature on modern racism identifies denial as one of its key features. This article examines the discourses of denial that feature in the talk of local anti-racism actors in Australia, and asks what drives these discourses. The research draws on qualitative interviews undertaken with participants involved in local anti-racism in two case study areas, one in South Australia and the other in New South Wales. This article explores the way local participants in the case study areas deployed four discourses to deny or minimise racism: temporal deflections; spatial deflections; deflections from the mainstream; and absence discourses. Place defending and the desire to protect one’s local area from being branded a racist space is discussed as a driver of those local denial discourses. Local denial of racism is also linked to national politics of racism and anti-racism. In particular, the Australian government’s retreat from multiculturalism, and the preference for ‘harmony’ rather than ‘anti-racism’ initiatives, was linked to the avoidance of the language of racism within participants’ responses. The way denial discourses narrow the range of possibilities for local anti-racism is discussed, as is the importance of acknowledgement of racism, particularly institutional and systemic racism. Public acknowledgement of these forms of racism will broaden the scope of local anti-racism.

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‘Here we go again’: Christchurch's antiracism rally as a discursive crisis

Cited by 13 publications

References 17 publications

Expanding the scope of studentification studies

Expanding the scope of studentification studies

Segmenting anti-Muslim sentiment in Australia: Insights for the diverse project of countering Islamophobia

Denial of racism and its implications for local action

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