Making White Cities (Part II)

Thursday, 10 July 2025: 13:00-14:45
Location: SJES002 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
RC21 Regional and Urban Development (host committee)
RC05 Racism, Nationalism, Indigeneity and Ethnicity

Language: English

Numerous studies have revealed how politics are imprinted in cities and how spatial configurations produce symbolic boundaries, shaping people’s sense of belonging and social interactions. Not only politics but also everyday practices and interactions can transform city spaces into spaces of encounter or, sometimes, conflict. Processes of racialization and othering often materialise in public spaces in multicultural cities which receive international or internal migrations. We propose a session taking further critical studies of Whiteness and the processes by which spaces and places get made or become white. While Whiteness studies have examined topics such as gentrification and urban displacement in North America and Europe, examining European subjectivity and its relationship to power, and the hierarchies and differences it constructs we are looking to expand the register via the growing literature that explores the materiality of Whiteness in the Global South, particularly in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We invite papers on critical studies of Whiteness that explore the ways in which cities provide a space that constructs, enables, and challenges configurations of Whiteness. We especially welcome contributions of cities and scholars of the Global South and the intersections and crossovers between cities in the North and the South. We welcome analyses that examine the privileges of Whiteness and forms of White domination that centre the intersections of race, space, and class.
Session Organizers:
Macarena BONHOMME, Universidad Autonoma de Chile, Chile and Karim MURJI, University of West London, United Kingdom
Oral Presentations
Youth and Intersectionality: Research Results in Mexico City
Natividad GUTIERREZ CHONG, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, UNAM, Mexico
The Plurinational Indigenous City Against Urban Colonialism
Manuel BAYON JIMENEZ, Mexico
Producing a White Space. Gentrification, Displacement and Invisibilisation of Racial Minorities in the Canal Saint-Martin Neighbourhood in Paris.
Jiyoung KIM, France
Eating the Other: Understanding Processes of Racialisation in London’s Multicultural Pop-up Restaurant Scene
Naaz RASHID, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
The Geography of Racialized Commerce and Gentrification
Hesu YOON, ENSAE-CREST, France
Between Enjoyment and Discomfort: Affective Geographies of Whiteness in Urban Belgium
Rozemarijn WEYERS, Belgium
Distributed Papers
Skin Color, Life Satisfaction, and Peer Victimization in Chilean Adolescents
Mauricio SALGADO, Centro de Estudios Públicos (Chile), Chile; Javier CASTILLO JARAMILLO, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile
Displace and Replace in the Palestinian-Jewish City of Lydd: What Does "Making the City White" Look like in an Ongoing Settler-Colonial Context?
Manal MASSALHA, Independent, United Kingdom
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