Premium
Decolonizing Geographies of Whiteness
Author(s) -
Shaw Wendy S.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
antipode
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.177
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1467-8330
pISSN - 0066-4812
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2006.00479.x
Subject(s) - scholarship , hegemony , context (archaeology) , sociology , race (biology) , ethnic group , gender studies , critical race theory , aesthetics , political science , anthropology , politics , history , art , law , archaeology
Engagement with the study of whiteness is slow within the discipline of geography despite repeated calls for it to be placed on the research agenda, and regardless of a strong heritage of critical “race” and postcolonial scholarship. This paper considers this reticence, and the problems inherent in Whiteness Studies more generally. It then offers examples from inner Sydney, Australia, that avoid some of the more pressing shortcomings of studying whiteness. By prizing open the essentializing bounds of hegemonic ethnicity, this paper identifies whiteness as context‐specific, processural and contestable.