GGR313H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Yonge-Dundas Square, Pacific Mall, Anoop Kumar
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These can lead to spatialization of difference. Meaning that certain people are thought to belong in certain spaces. And the city is coded in certain ways. Certain people belong in certain ways in the city; operate in unconscious. It seems like safe place for anyone: the idea the people belong in certain places. Nayak: the small-scale racialization of spaces and places in microgeography" (2374: the way we understand race is really localized, probably more than we thought. Incomplete understandings: race is phenotype/physical, race just is. It"s not true, because it"s not the same depending on where you go: we have a race. New, fuller understandings: race is dynamic and emergent (always coming out and being shaped) Through a combo of representations and material things (clothes, bodies, cell phones, etc; Social constructionism suggests race is a combination of physical differences (phenotype) and social imaginations (created through media and discourse)
