Experiencing Cities Flashcards
How does Toliet access affect a city?
100s of millions of city dwellers globally have no access to toilets
In India, 170 million have no toilet access daily
100s of people share a single toliet
How does class affect toliet access?
Homeless people often do not have consistent toilet access, you need power and money
Middle class can find restrooms away from home even if they have to buy something
class, race, appearance, ability to pay = access
How is there a contradiction in toliet access and laws?
public disgust for homeless people peeing and pooping outside, even laws against it, but what are they supposed to do?
How is sewage a resource in Kenya?
People harvest sewage from public toliets and then process it in bio-centres, and then sold back to slum dwellers
What elements need to be considered in urban experience?
gender and class hierarchies, politics, economics, complex local geographies,
What are power relations?
How power functions given specific identities and hierarchies, context, and location
What is abjection?
the process of casting away those who are different than the self because the other, different person represents a threat to the self
Often involves disgust, fear, repulsion
What are social struggles?
struggles for spatial and social belonging, often fought in the everyday spaces of the city (peaceful marches, sit-ins at lunch counters)
How did Montreal’s Gay village come to be?
Historically the catholic church has been very powerful in Quebec
The secularization of Quebec has resulted in a greater acceptance of LGBTQ people
The gay village was a poor working class neighbourhood when gay bisnesses were closed onst laurent due to Expo ‘67 and many moved to St-Cath
Gay tourism in montreal served as a hotspot, current modern gay village started in 1980s
How have targeted groups carved out spaces historically? Examples
Many marginalized groups in histroy have been rejected from spaces and occupations and form their own nieghbourhoods and communities
ex)The Castro in San Fran emerged when gay men were discharged from the military
What were the Stonewall riots?
1969- police raided the stonewall Inn in Greenwich village
Homosexual acts remained illefal in every state except illonois, bars and restautents could get shut down for serving gays
Most gay bars at the time were operated by the mafia who paid police to look the other way
police raids were common but the gay community fought back at Stonewall
What is the history of anti-LGBTQ police violence in Montreal ?
During 1960s, routine raids of Gay clubs to fill arrest quotas
1970s: Police raided gay establishments and threatened to call employers and publish their names in papers
1984: police raid on Bud’s resulted in 122 charges, some patrons’ photos
1990: police raided the ‘sex garage’, tooks off their badges and beat people with their batons
Police issued a formal apology for all raids in 2015
How did views about gay people have environmental effects?
Jean Drapeau cut down trees to stop gay sex
How is Chinatown a racialized trope? What is the trope?
Contributed to an understanding of how racialized tropes become established through urban spaces
Ethnic Chinese people came together ‘naturally’ and formed urban neighbourhoods because they shared a culture
‘Chinatown’ as western invention
