Racism In Metropolitan Areas

by Pinxten, Rik; Preckler, Ellen

• ISBN13: 9781845450885
• ISBN10: 1845450884
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-15
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

For several decades, a political discourse, which incites exclusion and hatred againt those who are perceived as different, has been gaining ground, most notably in affluent and developed countries. Focusing on the growth of racism in large cities and urban areas, this volume presents the views of international scholars who work in the social sciences and statements by non-practicing academics such as journalists and policy makers. The contributions of the scientists and the non-academic specialists are grouped around common themes, highlighting existing debates and bringing together widely scattered information. The book explores the ways in which old forms of racism persist in the urban context, and how traditional exclusion systems like casteism can be likened to contemporary forms like racism directed at refugees. Rik Pinxtenis Professor and Senior Researcher in Anthropology and head of the Department of Comparative Sciences of Culture at Ghent University. He has published widely on the anthropology of knowledge and the comparative study of religion. Ellen Preckleris Junior Interface Officer of the city of Ghent, facilitating the interaction between policy circles and youth movements in urban contexts.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Racism in Metropolitan Areas	vii
Rik Pinxten
Ellen Preckler
Part One: Disempowering through Racism
How a Dream was Shattered	3	(4)
Patrick Janssens
Explaining Increased Racial Conflict in Post-industrial Societies: the Creation of Systemic `Competitive' Youth Unemployment	7	(16)
Troy Duster
Racial Conflicts in British Cities	23	(12)
Eric Seward
Limits of Tolerance and Limited Tolerance: How Tolerant are the Danes?	35	(20)
Peter Hervik
The Politics of `Caste is Race': the Impact of Urbanisation	55	(14)
Dipankar Gupta
Playing the Media: the Durban Case	69	(4)
Guy Poppe
The Relevance of the Language of Race in South Asian Conflicts	73	(12)
Sumit Sarkar
The Fremmede and the Dalit are Silent: Danish and Indian Cultural Worlds	85	(8)
Donald Robotham
Approaching Racism: Attitudes, Actions and Social Structure	93	(10)
Robert A. Rubinstein
Part Two: Empowering to Combat Racism
The Paradox of Secondary Ethnicity	103	(4)
Emanuel Marx
Is Harmony Possible in a Multiracial Society? The Case of Singapore	107	(6)
Mary Judd
Racism and Intercultural Issues in Urban Europe	113	(14)
Jagdish S. Gundara
Antiracist Empowerment through Culture and Legislation	127	(8)
Johan Leman
Racism in Large Cities: the Means to Empower/Disempower Groups and Communities	135	(8)
Glyn Ford
Riding the Tiger: the Difficult Relationship between NGOs and the Media	143	(8)
Marc Peirs
Urban Crowds Manipulated: Assessing the Austrian Case as an Example in Wider European Tendencies	151	(12)
Andre Gingrich
Some Reflections on Culture and Violence	163	(10)
Erwin Jans
Naturalising Difference and Models of Coexistence: Concluding Comments	173	(10)
Laura Nader
Notes on Contributors	183	(4)
Index	187