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Negative Neighbourhood Reputation and Place Attachment The Production and Contestation of Territorial Stigma

224 Pages

by Routledge

274 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

274 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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The concept of territorial stigma, as developed in large part by the urban sociologist Loïc Wacquant, contends that certain groups of people are devalued, discredited and tainted by the reputation of the place where they reside. This book argues that this theory is more relevant and comprehensive than others that have been used to frame and understand ostracised neighbourhoods and their... Read more

1. Introduction [Paul Kirkness and Andreas Tijé-Dra]

2.The Stigmatization of Las Vegas and its Inhabitants: The Other Side of the Coin [Pascale Nédelec]

3. Imaginary Politics of the Branded City: Right-wing Terrorism as a Mediated Object of Stigmatization [Lucas Pohl]

4. The Stigmatisation of the Roma in Italy and France: Extensive Territorial Stigma and Ways of Coping With It [Gaja Maestri]

5. Redlining or Renewal? The Space-based Construction of Decay and its Contestation through Local Agency Brixton, Johannesburg [Christoph Haferburg and Marie Huchzermeyer]

6. The ‘Not So Good’, the ‘Bad’ and the ‘Ugly’: Scripting the ‘Badlands’ of Housing Market Renewal [Lee Crookes]

7. Opening the Reputational Rent Gap [Hamish Kallin]

8. Voices from the Quartiers Populaires: Belonging to Stigmatised French Urban Neighbourhoods [Paul Kirkness and Andreas Tijé-Dra]

9. "This is my ‘Wo’": Making Home in Shanghai’s Lower Quarter [Yunpeng Zhang]

10. From Social Hell to Heaven? The Intermingling Processes of Territorial Stigmatization, Agency from Below and Gentrification in the Varjão, Brazil [Shadia Husseini de Araújo and Everaldo Batista da Costa]

11. Researching Territorial Stigma with Social Housing Tenants: Tenant-led Digital Media Production about People and Place [Dallas Rogers, Michael Darcy and Kathy Arthurson]

12. You Have Got to Represent your Ends": Youth territoriality in London [Adefemi Adekunle]

13. Call it by its Name! Territory-ism and Territorial Stigmatisation as a Dynamic Model: The case of Old Naledi [Klaus Geiselhart]

14. Territorial Stigmatisation, Gentrification and Class Struggle: An interview with Tom Slater [interviewed by Paul Kirkness and Andreas Tijé-Dra]

15. Conclusion: Tainted Urban Spaces at the Intersection of Urban Planning, Politics of Identity and Urban Capitalism [Paul Kirkness and Andreas Tijé-Dra]