Pub Date : 2022-05-02DOI: 10.1177/12063312221090600
M. Hartmann, André Jansson
This article introduces the special issue “Gentrification and the right to the geomedia city.” The aim of the special issue is to make up for the lack of research on how gentrification is shaped and underpinned by the normalization of various media platforms that currently define urban life—and what these media mean to the resistance to gentrification. Building on the seven contributions that make up the special issue, this article introduces the concept of the geomedia city as a discriminatory regime of dwelling. The geomedia city refers not only to the digital infrastructures built into urban environments—circulating and embedding data—but more crucially to the social and cultural dynamics whereby certain norms, skills, and forms of capital (and thus people) are legitimized (or marginalized) in the city. As such, geomedia constitutes a territorializing force that lubricates urban displacement processes by defining who has the right to belong where.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1177/12063312221089207
J. Lloyd, L. Steele
In disrupting the singularity of official histories and memorials, some scholars, activists, and members of marginalized populations have approached memory as a concept that accommodates a multiplicity of subjugated experiences, knowledges, and narratives of place and event, and thus gives rise to a set of memory practices that serve as useful tools for anti-oppression and social justice activism. For these reasons, this memory work has a clear spatial dimension and focuses on place. One such movement in this vein, referred to as “Sites of Conscience,” forms the focus of this special issue. This editorial introduction to this special issue of Space and Culture takes Sites of Conscience as a prism through which to consider relations between history, memory, politics, temporality, ethics, and justice within a spatial framework. Given the increasing pressures to simplify and “purify” national narratives and to pathologize multiple forms of difference, we urgently need activist scholarship on the salient relations between place, history, memory, memorialization, and social justice.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1177/12063312221089213
Pınar Sezginalp Özçetin, S. Rottmann
Combining architectural and cultural anthropological approaches, this study explores the domestic lived spaces of Syrian women in Istanbul to understand how they create belonging in a new social and architectural setting and perform gender roles. We analyze data gathered from several types of dwellings according to the concept of spatial practice of Henri Lefebvre to explore how women’s daily life praxis fosters feelings of contentment and safety, and how they reflect on their previous homes in Syria through a lens of nostalgia. At the same time, we explore how houses in Syria are remembered via reflections on spatial changes. Methodologically, we rely on semi-structured interviews and mental map drawings of houses in Istanbul and reminisced houses from Syria. Ultimately, this research provides a fine-grained portrait of the (lived) space of Syrian women, showing how they reconstruct domestic lives through past/Syrian and current/Turkish spatial practices.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-30DOI: 10.1177/12063312221089205
David W. Hill
This article draws attention to the reproduction of logistical power in what is identified as the eroticism of logistics. Eroticism here describes the way that transmission is understood as a seamless conveyance of goods or an intimate communication across a surface. It is first argued that this eroticism is found in attempts to define modernity as logistical that ought to be rejected in favor of a more grounded account of rerouting. It is then demonstrated that this latter account best accommodates the findings of critical logistics studies, where logistical spaces are shown to be fractious and the movement of goods far from smooth. It is finally argued that while an erotic principle of transmission lends itself to a reductive account of logistics that sustains its violence, a postal account of transmission better captures the experience of getting the goods while situating logistics within a critical space.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-16DOI: 10.1177/12063312211065263
K. van Marle
In this article, I reflect on the idea of university spaces as potential sites of conscience. I explore how these spaces act not only as continuous reminders of past violence, marginalization, and exclusion, but as reminders also of ethical accountability and redress. The latter discloses opportunities and possibilities for a reinterpretation of such spaces, keeping in mind that the traces of the past will remain and that every attempt at erasure will be incomplete. The article considers how spaces or places that remain in the process of decolonization can be mobilized as sites of conscience. These sites/spaces/places manifest relationality also between materiality and symbol and between judgment and ethical accountability. The article focuses on issues surrounding the removal of a statue of the past president of the Republic of the Orange Free State, President M. T. Steyn at the University of the Free State (UFS) in Bloemfontein, South Africa. The university has a long and troubled history of exclusion, racism, and authoritarianism, among others. Since the early 1990s, many attempts have been made to transform, not all in vain. The statue itself was a site of contention at the UFS for many years and was removed over the last weekend in June 2020. I conclude that space that remains on the UFS campus is one of haunting that urges a certain sense of place and atmosphere that could forge learning, education, and transforming citizenship.
在这篇文章中，我反思了大学空间作为潜在的良心场所的想法。我探索这些空间如何不仅作为过去暴力、边缘化和排斥的持续提醒，而且作为道德责任和补救的提醒。后者揭示了重新解释这些空间的机会和可能性，记住过去的痕迹将保留下来，每一次擦除的尝试都将是不完整的。这篇文章探讨了如何动员仍在非殖民化进程中的空间或地方作为良心的场所。这些地点/空间/场所也体现了物质性与象征性之间、判断与伦理责任之间的关系。本文聚焦于移除位于南非布隆方丹的自由州大学(University of The Free State, UFS)前奥兰治自由州共和国总统M. T. Steyn的雕像。这所大学在排斥、种族主义和威权主义等方面有着悠久而麻烦的历史。自20世纪90年代初以来，人们进行了许多转型尝试，但并非都是徒劳的。这座雕像本身多年来一直是UFS争论的焦点，并于2020年6月的最后一个周末被拆除。我的结论是，留在UFS校园的空间是一个令人难以忘怀的空间，它敦促一种特定的地方和氛围，可以促进学习，教育和改变公民身份。
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Pub Date : 2022-03-10DOI: 10.1177/12063312211065561
M. Tumarkin
This article starts with the idea that a site of conscience is uniquely capable of keeping alive in the public imagination—as an open wound and as a call to action—the devastating persistence of gendered violence. It doesn’t seek to offer an account of how such a site might come to be imagined, let alone come into being. Instead, its focus is on the conceptual work required to make space for this kind of imagining. I argue that it is important to make and maintain a distinction between a site of memory and a site of conscience and that the category of time needs to be denaturalized and reconsidered in our conceptualization of the cultural work performed by sites of conscience.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-07DOI: 10.1177/12063312211065556
Tiffany McComsey, A. Porter
This “postcard” examines the development of Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation’s (KBHAC) Mobile Education Centre as a mobile “site of conscience” as well as a place of Indigenous resistance and truth-telling in White Australia. KBHAC’s Mobile Education Centre is a whole of community experiential learning facility and aims to educate children, young people, and communities (Aboriginal and non-Indigenous) through three levels of engagement drawing on a range of resources: oral testimony, archival footage and artifacts, animated film, visual images, and interactive materials including an online portal. The Mobile Education Centre represents one example of decades of advocacy of survivors to raise awareness about Kinchela Boys Home and the experiences of Stolen Generations survivors. This postcard tells the story of KBHAC’s Mobile Education Centre and situates it within the context of ongoing efforts to reclaim the former Kinchela Boys Home site, located on Dunghutti Country, Mid-North Coast, New South Wales. In doing so, this article seeks to document the story of a mobile site of conscience which seeks to educate about past harms and the intergenerational impacts of genocidal laws and policies while creating a space for truth-telling that supports the process of post-traumatic growth and intergenerational healing.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-06DOI: 10.1177/12063312211066567
Patricia G. Davis
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice (NMPJ) is a site of conscience that simultaneously mobilizes and interrogates the neoliberal cityscape of its location in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, USA. The memorial is comprised of a monument commemorating the more than 4,000 documented lynching victims in the United States and a museum that provides the historical and contemporary contexts for lynching and other forms of racial violence. Located in an iconic city of the African American civil rights movement that is attempting to rebrand itself as a scene of racial reconciliation, the memorial mobilizes discourses of space and place to situate contemporary mass incarceration as the “unfinished business” of the era. This essay addresses the commemorative duality implicated in the NMPJ’s ability to marshal and contest the neoliberal assumptions activated through rhetorics of reconciliation, redemption, post-racialism—and, ultimately, American exceptionalism—to offer a countervisual reading of Montgomery’s cityscape.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-05DOI: 10.1177/12063312211066542
Jacqueline Z. Wilson, B. Carlton
The article examines the motivation and role of the insider activism that resulted in the preservation of a major historical site of female incarceration, the Parramatta Female Factory Precinct, in suburban Sydney. For much of the 20th century the site was a “Girls’ Home,” in which children who had committed no offense were incarcerated under child welfare regulations and literally treated like criminals. Life in the institution was characterized by routine extreme maltreatment of children, many of whom have carried the psychological legacy of their time there throughout their lives. A group of survivors, moved to preserve and reclaim the space, spent many years contending with obdurate and indifferent bureaucracies before successfully having the site Heritage-listed, and it is now a member of the international Sites of Conscience. The Precinct’s significance as a site of feminist carceral history is discussed, and its place in today’s cultural landscape examined.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-24DOI: 10.1177/12063312211073048
Brook Andrew, L. Hibberd
In Australia, the trauma of the forced removal, institutionalization, and attempted assimilation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children under Stolen Generations policies is rarely publicly memorialized, especially at the children’s homes and missions where these things took place. Darug Nation reclamation of the former site of the Blacktown Native Institution in Western Sydney entails, however, a distinct memorialization of the land as a powerful identity through restoring ceremonial and land care cultural practices that predate invasion. The Darug activation of this place pivots on a powerful Aboriginal ethos of land as “Country”—a living being or spirit. We also contend that this relationship to land is better defined by the expansive term “zone” rather than the colonial, territorial notion of “site.” It is in this context that Darug Traditional Owners, other First Nations artists, and Stolen Generations survivors are generating remarkable artistic, communal, ephemeral, land-based, and performative approaches that empower and restore Darug bonds, with the land of the former institution as a living being.
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