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TAXI CAB PUBLICS AND THE PRODUCTION OF BROWN SPACE AFTER 9/11

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This paper introduces Brown Space as a conceptual category to understand the particular spatial politics of Brown as an 'identificatory strategy' after 9/11. I use the taxi cab and the daily life of the 'brown' taxi driver as a vehicle to navigate the new micro-politics of brown in public space. Within the popular imaginary I locate two dominating configurations of the taxi post-9/11 which work together to create Brown Space. The taxi figures prominently in the dark corners of the Right as a roving terrorist cell while it is elevated to an idealized 'public sphere on wheels' in the bright sensibility of the liberal imagination. In the first account the driver needs to be eradicated and in the second account the embodied driver is strangely absent. Between this deviant brown and an unacknowledged brown there emerges yet another post-9/11 proclamation of civic life - a renewed public space free of brown.

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Cultural Studies

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Oxon, UK : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group., 2010

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English

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09502386

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Volume 24, Issue 2 March 2010 , pages 183 - 199

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public space
Brown space
Immigrant labor

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