From Dockyard to Esplanade: Leveraging Industrial Heritage in Waterfront Redevelopment

The outcomes of preserving and incorporating industrial building fabric and related infrastructure, such as railways, docks and cranes, in redeveloped waterfront sites have yet to be fully understood by planners, preservationists, public administrators or developers. Case studies of Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Philadelphia/Camden, Dublin, Glasgow, examine the industrial history, redevelopment planning and approach to preservation and adaptive reuse in each locale. The effects of contested industrial histories, planning approach, funding, environmental remediation, building materials and scale are evaluated as how they impact preservation outcomes. The case studies reveal a trend towards preservation of industrial waterfront buildings and infrastructure and demonstrate how such preservation has been leveraged to contribute to the success of re-purposed urban waterfronts

Racialization: A Defense of the Concept

This paper defends the concept of racialization against its critics. As the concept has become increasingly popular, questions about its meaning and value have been raised, and a backlash against its use has occurred. I argue that when “racialization” is properly understood, criticisms of the concept are unsuccessful. I defend a definition of racialization and identify its companion concept, “racialized group.” Racialization is often used as a synonym for “racial formation.” I argue that this is a mistake. Racial formation theory is committed to racial ontology, but racialization is best understood as the process through which racialized – rather than racial – groups are formed. “Racialization” plays a unique role in the conceptual landscape, and it is a key concept for race eliminativists and anti-realists about race

Is “Race” Modern? Disambiguating the Question

Race theorists have been unable to reach a consensus regarding the basic historical question, “is ‘race’ modern?” I argue that this is partly because the question itself is ambiguous. There is not really one question that race scholars are answering, but at least six. First, is the concept of race modern? Second, is there a modern concept of race that is distinct from earlier race concepts? Third, are “races” themselves modern? Fourth, are racialized groups modern? Fifth, are the means and methods associated with racialization modern? And sixth, are the meanings attached to racialized traits modern? Because these questions have different answers, the debate about the historical origins of “race” cannot be resolved unless they are distinguished. I will explain the ways in which “race” is and is not modern by answering these questions, thereby offering a resolution to a seemingly intractable problem

Resisting Colonial Mastery: Becoming Animal, Becoming Ethical in The Impressionist.

Theories about Third Space or “in-betweeness” often lack an ethics that responds to the position of the majority of those people who experience the violence of colonialism, as Amar Acheraïou argues. How can we think hybridity with a more committed ethics? Hari Kunzru’s The Impressionist suggests that much of the violence experienced by humans and animals under dominant or colonial thought stems from a traditional view of subjectivity as fixed, stable, knowable, distinct and perhaps independent from the nonhuman. Colonial logic sacrifices and views as “disposable” those regarded as not human or somehow less than human through a sense of mastery and in order to maintain a stable notion of subjectivity, an exclusionary definition of Man, and a particular hierarchy or ordering of the world. This article argues that The Impressionist portrays subjectivity not as fixed but in process after Deleuze and Guattari’s “becoming animal” as a way to challenge dominant thinking, while also emphasizing the nonhuman nature of subjectivity and human dependence on the nonhuman, including the environment, for existence. The Impressionist offers an important corrective to concepts of hybridity by emphasizing that those humans and nonhumans regarded as “disposable” demand ethical response

White Heterosexual Men, Athletic Bodies, and the Pleasure of Unruly Racialization

In recent times, the semi-naked male athletic body has become central to the cultural imagination of late modern societies, in turn, inviting comment from social scientists of different shades on the changing gazes of heterosexual men. Interestingly, and despite frequently appearing in sport and leisure media, the racialized aspects of this change are yet to be explored fully. This article, therefore, considers how white heterosexual men (de)construct and (re)attach gendered and sexualized meanings to those male athletic bodies they struggle to define “racially.” Borrowing Gilroy’s use of the term “unruly,” which he employs to capture those moments of multiculture that are hard to “home” culturally or geographically, I refer to this struggle as a process of unruly racialization. After analyzing interviews with twentytwo self-identifying white, British, heterosexual men, this article argues that male bodies racialized as unruly are marked with varying degrees of intrigue, jealously, admiration, and fear. I conclude by reflecting on the extent to which this cultural shift can be read as a move toward a future beyond “race.

Perilaku Konsumtif Generasi Y untuk Produk Fashion

Segmentasi pasar dimaksudkan untuk mempermudah pemasar dalam memahami konsumen sebagai target pasarnya. Remaja atau dikenal juga sebagai generation Y merupakan segmen pasar yang mempunyai daya tarik tersendiri, dengan potensi pengeluaran yang relative besar dan kemudahan untuk membelanjakan uangnya, yang kadang melebihi kebutuhannya atau dikenal sebagai perilaku konsumtif. Penelitian berikut mencoba untuk menelaah perilaku ini, khususnya dalam pembelanjaan produk fashion. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kuantitatif dengan 120 mahasiswi berusia 18-25 tahun yang diperoleh dengan metode incidental sampling. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan angket, data diolah dengan analisis statistik deskriptif menggunakan SPSS 16. Hasil penelitian memberikan gambaran, baik mengenai data demografis maupun mengenai perilaku konsumtif generation Y. Saran untuk penelitian selanjutnya terkait dengan jumlah responden dan usia, agar lebih mewakili generation Y sebagai populasinya