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Re‐inscribing the urban abject: Ngai Tahu and the Gothic Revival
Author(s) -
McNaughton Howard
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
new zealand geographer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1745-7939
pISSN - 0028-8144
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-7939.2009.01147.x
Subject(s) - civility , negotiation , sociology , gender studies , aesthetics , articulation (sociology) , face (sociological concept) , politics , visibility , art , geography , political science , social science , law , meteorology
The 1960s, in Fredric Jameson's analysis, saw a radical re‐formulation of global imperialism, with pockets of the ‘third world’ being incorporated into the first (Jameson 1991, p. 128). On a local level, this implied for colonized peoples a re‐negotiation of social space in the face of urbanization. One culture's civilizing mission becomes another's grid of control, resulting in ghettoization, the marginalization of ‘abject zones’ where the visibility of the clean and proper city is suspended. This paper examines the case of Christchurch, where the garden as an index to civility becomes a paradoxical veneer in the face of biculturalism and decolonization.