Unseeing Racism: Naming Whiteness at the Intersections of Regimes of Data and Participation

Emily Barrett

Planning Theory & Practice, 2023, vol. 24, issue 5, 679-694

Abstract: Pairing data-driven and participatory processes is an alluring approach for contentious urban issues. However, within these processes, the ongoing role of whiteness – an unnamed norm that privileges White people – is understudied and undertheorized. I examine how data and participation were positioned within conversations of gentrification in Lexington, KY. Beyond considering who participates, I analyse how the expectations and burdens of engagement associated with these processes were racialized. I argue that surfacing and problematizing racialized expectations of engagement disrupts how whiteness produces a strategic recognizing and disavowing – an unseeing – of racial oppression and thus diagnoses the whiteness of urban planning.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2023.2279654

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