GGRB05H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Vibraphone, Urban Sprawl, Social Constructionism
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The idea that people belong in certain places: something you can feel. That person/space is different (don"t look like us, unfamiliar) The special and material constitution (constitution=the make up) of race: material things shape it. Race is about both discourse/representation/images and bodies/material experiences: about a combination of all these things. The small-scale racialization of spaces and places is microgeography". Race is dynamic and emergent: changing. Through a combination of representations and material things. Social constructionism suggests race is a combination of physical differences (phenotype) and social imaginations (created through media and discourse) There are new materialist ways of thinking about race: engage with physical things produce local understanding of race. We need to combine social constructionist and materialist ideas of race: Racialization is the process by which people and places come to be associated with race: racialization is uneven, so some people experience it and some do not, depending on where we are.
