Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group

Selected Sponsored sessions,
Association of American Geographers
2003 Annual Meeting,
New Orleans

Wendy Shaw, The University of New South Wales

"Geographies of Whiteness"

The study of whiteness emerged recently within human geography. Although geography has a strong heritage of scholarship in the study of processes of racialisation, the study of whiteness has tended to remain within other disciplines, such as cultural studies, sociology and more recently, Whiteness Studies. In this paper, it is argued that whiteness, as processes of power, needs to be recognised as highly geographical and in need of critical appraisal by geographers.

Email: w.shaw (at) unsw.edu.au

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