The ‘Missing’ Politics of Whiteness and Rightful Presence in the Settler Colonial City

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Abstract:This paper engages the global nexus of colonization, racialization, and urbanization through the settler colonial city of Kelowna, British Columbia (BC), Canada. Kelowna is known for its recent, rapid urbanization and for its ongoing, disproportionate 'whiteness,' understood as a complex political geography that enacts boundaries of inclusion and exclusion. The white urban identity of Kelowna defines Indigenous and migrant communities as 'missing' or 'out-of-place,' yet these configurations of 'missing' are politically contested. This paper examines how differential processes of racialization and urbanization establish the whiteness of this settler-colonial city, drawing attention to ways that 'missing' communities remake relations of 'rightful presence' in the city, against dominant racialized, colonial, and urban narratives of their absence and processes of their displacement. Finally, this paper considers how a politics of 'rightful presence' needs to be reconfigured in the settler-colonial city, which itself has no rightful presence on unceded Indigenous land.http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mjis Millennium

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