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Whitening the inner city: The conta...

Newman, Zoe Gabriel.

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Whitening the inner city: The containment of Toronto's degenerate spaces and the production of respectable subjects (Ontario).

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Whitening the inner city: The containment of Toronto's degenerate spaces and the production of respectable subjects (Ontario)./
Author:	Newman, Zoe Gabriel.
Description:	238 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Sherene Razack.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-06A.
Subject:	Geography. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NQ69244
ISBN:	0612692442

Whitening the inner city: The containment of Toronto's degenerate spaces and the production of respectable subjects (Ontario).
Newman, Zoe Gabriel.

Whitening the inner city: The containment of Toronto's degenerate spaces and the production of respectable subjects (Ontario). - 238 p.

Adviser: Sherene Razack.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2002.

The production and regulation of subjects is a spatial process. Subjects and spaces are produced in a dialectical relationship that is implicated in the constitution of racial hierarchies. Boundary demarcation is central to the spatialised production of respectable subjectivity and provides justification for the containment of racialized and sexualized bodies and spaces. This process requires and sustains a story of the city as an endangered place rescued by respectable white people. Through an examination of three moments of creating the middle class and the white city, this thesis argues that spatial management produces respectable and degenerate subjects and spaces. First, I read accounts of industry and domestic life forged in downtown Toronto in the early 1900s in order to establish how this story of origins requires regulation that constitutes and fortifies an apparently impermeable boundary. I argue that this boundary functions to divide people according to a hierarchy of social difference. The second moment is a 1977 campaign to ‘clean up’ Toronto's Yonge Street and make it commercially and morally reputable; in the process of the ‘clean up,’ homosexual bodies were marked as degenerate, and white politicians were positioned as the saviours of respectability. The final moment examined is the late-twentieth-century marketing of converted industrial spaces in Toronto by recourse to narratives of a wasteland rescued by liberal middle class white people. These three examples represent moments in which racial and sexual hierarchies were enlisted and sustained, through discourses that bound together subjects and spaces. Such moments reaffirm a Canadian national story of whiteness as superior by virtue of its benevolence and civility, and of white people as entitled citizens. I suggest that national narratives of goodness, progress and liberalism function by displacing and erasing marginalized people from the official story of the city's making, thus further disenfranchising them.

ISBN: 0612692442Subjects--Topical Terms:

524010
Geography.

Whitening the inner city: The containment of Toronto's degenerate spaces and the production of respectable subjects (Ontario).
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