Common resistance against state-led stigmatization and displacement

Fabian, Louise; Hansen, Anders Lund

doi:10.4324/9780429427046-9

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“…Even so, the law has also inadvertently produced new modes of intervention into how residents participate in the democratic management of their local housing associations, a long tradition in Denmark. For instance, resistance to the law has inspired new democratic residents' initiatives to develop between various neighborhoods in different parts of the country, such as Almen Modstand (Fabian & Hansen, 2020). Residents and other local actors have organized across the affected housing areas, for example by means of public campaigns such as 'Hands off our homes'.…”

Section: Danish and Swedish Housing In Times Of Repressive Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘You can simply say no’: Narrating the effects and affects of Danish and Swedish housing in crisis

Brolund de Carvalho,

Fanni,

Svenningsen Kajita

et al. 2024

RHJ

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Narratives about the ‘failure’ of large-scale post-World War II housing are now guiding major physical, social, and economic changes in neighborhoods all over Europe. This is true even in Denmark and Sweden, which have long been known for their welfare states and benevolent housing policies. Today, however, both countries have enacted new national anti-segregation measures that call for major physical and social changes to neighborhoods built in the postwar era, even as the opinions of local communities and residents of such neighborhoods have been only sparsely heard – if at all. By working with the method ‘witness seminars’, we – as the research collective Aktion Arkiv – foreground residents’ perspectives and their collective resistance: the effects and affects of top-down changes. While sharing their lived experiences and actions, residents say that architects and planners can ‘simply say no’ and thereby refuse to participate in these actions.

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Section: Danish and Swedish Housing In Times Of Repressive Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘You can simply say no’: Narrating the effects and affects of Danish and Swedish housing in crisis

Brolund de Carvalho,

Fanni,

Svenningsen Kajita

et al. 2024

RHJ

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“…But as elsewhere (Sisson, 2020), spatial stigmatisation is also resisted ‘from below’. A vivid example is Almen Modstand (Common Resistance), an activist network established to counter the 2018 ‘ghetto package’ (Fabian and Lund Hansen, 2021).…”

Section: The Politics Of the Exceptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These areas were identified and mapped in a policy paper, and criteria for identifying ‘ghetto areas’ were subsequently set out in law. This was one instance in an evolving process of what could be termed ‘state-led territorial stigmatization’ (Kipfer, 2019: 149; also Birk and Fallov, 2021; Fabian and Lund Hansen, 2021; Risager, 2022). Such processes have consequences.…”

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State-led stigmatisation of place and the politics of the exception

Olsen

Larsen

2022

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Ghetto area’ has become an official categorisation in Danish housing policy. This article investigates how this stigmatising spatialisation of politics and policy has emerged through evolving storylines for particular housing estates, which gradually have come to structure political debate and become institutionalised in official policy. While political actors can draw on different storylines, it is argued that a range of storylines and associated quantifiable criteria combine to produce a generic ‘ghetto place’ in Danish politics. This scale-framing and objectification have enabled a politics of the exception, making it possible to apply extraordinary measures to particular places. This has significant effects for inhabitants in these places and the cities in which they are located, and it is proposed that, in the longer term, the politics of the exception could also become a battering ram against the collectively owned non-profit housing sector in Denmark.

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“…Between 2010 and 2021, the term was largely normalized, albeit reluctantly for some (Kristensen, 2021), and denoted a mainstay topic in Danish politics. Recently, however, there has been resistance to and political acknowledgement of the “imprecision” of the designation (Fabian and Hansen, 2020) [2]. To feature on the Danish Ministry of the Interior and Housing's annual ghettolist , an area must meet three out of five criteria relating to: educational levels, income levels, employment levels, the percentage of immigrants and descendants from “non-Western” countries, and the percentage of adults (+18) with criminal convictions.…”

Section: The Stain Of Place: Becoming a Danish Ghettomentioning

confidence: 99%

Moral urban citizenship and the youth problem in a Danish ghetto

Bach

Schneidermann

2022

JOE

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PurposeThis article examines the interventions from municipality, state and other actors in the Gellerup estate, a Danish “ghetto” by focusing on the youth problem and its construction, by examining a cross-disciplinary academic workshop intending to “solve the youth problem” of the estate.Design/methodology/approachThe article is based on the two authors' participation in the academic workshop, as well as their continued engagement with the Gellerup estate through separate project employments and ethnographic research projects in the estate, consisting of both participant observation and interviews.FindingsIn the article the authors suggest that the 2015 workshop reproduced particularly the category of idle urban young men as problematic. The authors analyze this as a form of “moral urban citizenship”. The article also analyzes some of the proposed solutions to the problem, particularly architectural transformations, and connects the Danish approach to the problems of the “ghetto” to urban developments historically and on a global scale.Originality/valueCross-disciplinary academic attempts to solve real-world problems are rarely incorporated as ethnographic data. In this article the authors attempt to include part of their own practice as academics as valuable data that opens up new perspectives on a field and their own involvement and analysis of it.

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Common resistance against state-led stigmatization and displacement

Cited by 10 publications

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‘You can simply say no’: Narrating the effects and affects of Danish and Swedish housing in crisis

‘You can simply say no’: Narrating the effects and affects of Danish and Swedish housing in crisis

State-led stigmatisation of place and the politics of the exception

Moral urban citizenship and the youth problem in a Danish ghetto

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