Randa Abdel-Fattah: ‘Racial Australianisation’ and the affective registers and emotional practices of Islamophobia Abdel-Fatteh talks about the ways in which the Lakemba area has been racialised as a dangerous, Muslim space of otherness. Even a modified shop dummy becomes a symbol of threat. Racial meanings have been embedded across a range of symbols, including halal … Continue reading Reimagining Australia: Islamophobia and reimagining landscape and sustainability
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Being present in public space
There's a line from one of Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently books about homeless people that sticks in my mind: all that anyone wants from them is their absence. But everyone has to be somewhere. In cities throughout the world, there are struggles going on over who gets to be present in public spaces, and what … Continue reading Being present in public space