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On the road: academic production, race and epistemic apartheid On the road: academic production, race and epistemic apartheid
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Lisbon, Portugal Lisbon, Portugal
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São Paulo, Brazil São Paulo, Brazil
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Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford, United Kingdom
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In the library: debates on Urban Anthropology and racism In the library: debates on Urban Anthropology and racism
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Take the books out of the shelf: the canonisation of race as a non-subject matter Take the books out of the shelf: the canonisation of race as a non-subject matter
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Portuguese Urban Studies And The Silencing Of Institutional Racism Portuguese Urban Studies And The Silencing Of Institutional Racism
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Concluding remarks Concluding remarks
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Notes Notes
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References References
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8 Portuguese Urban Studies: Between Race And The Absence Of Racism
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Published:June 2022
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Abstract
Disciplines have myths of origin, canonical accounts that, far from being innocuous, form and mould how bodies of knowledge exist, operate and reproduce themselves today. Their (hi)stories should not be taken as given, but one should rather ask which voices are being privileged and which ones are rendered as non-relevant, since past silences echo in present times and in present tensions. By examining the racial contours of urban policies in the Portuguese context, it became evident how debates on race and racism were absent from academic knowledge production in Urban Studies, and particularly in Urban Anthropology. Despite the proliferation of academic works on peripheralised territories in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area – mostly inhabited by black and Roma populations and particularly subjected to State surveillance and repression – there were practically no debates on institutional racism nor violence. This chapter is a journey through several cities, (public) libraries, books and authors. It is a journey to understand why Urban Anthropology has been evading race and racism as a possible lens to understand urban segregation and inequalities. As I argue, these silences are a refraction of a more deep-rooted racist assumption about who and what is considered to be a worthwhile and pertinent subject of science. In short, I show how epistemic silences are indeed issues that reveal the persistence of epistemic apartheid (Rabaka, 2010) that has been silencing both black authorship and racism, thereby leaving racial residential segregation unchallenged.
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