GGRB05H3 Chapter 8: CARINA LISTERBORN READING
Document Summary
Carina listerborn violent encounters in urban public spaces in malmo, sweden. Town of tomellila in southern sweden had national attention when somalian woman and her 6 y/o daughter were thrown stones at and had racist phrases shouted at them on their walk to school (pg 96) Thus, muslim women in the west are regarded as threats to western civilization, while also facing violence. These acts of overlooked violence (gendered and islamophobic) serve to maintain a. Hegemonic social, spatial, and political order in a swedish nationalist context (pg 97) Existing socio-spatial order in malm "s public coincides w/ ethinically segregated city and the geography of the veil. Public spaces are economically, socially, culturally, and politically charged, and unequally distributed public spaces are consistently segregated and are not democratic. Violence can be understood as a process, that comes from broader geographical phenomena and patterns of the social world is not a localized event or thing.
