“I Just Live Here”: Everyday Practices of Disaffiliation of Middle-class Households in Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods

Pinkster, Fenne M.

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“…In their study of a Parisian banlieue, residents designated micro‐territories within their neighbourhood, contrasting their own “ordinary” surroundings with “hot” spaces in the neighbourhood, which reflected the disorganised, dangerous spaces imagined by the outside world. Pinkster () observed similar forms of spatial deflection in marginalised neighbourhoods in The Netherlands. Middle class residents in “problem neighbourhoods” in Amsterdam and The Hague justified their presence there by drawing sociospatial boundaries within the neighbourhood, distinguishing between “hotspots” and “quiet corners”.…”

Section: Resident Experiences Of Territorial Stigmamentioning

confidence: 81%

On the Stickiness of Territorial Stigma: Diverging Experiences in Amsterdam’s Most Notorious Neighbourhood

2020

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In Western Europe, a select number of "ghettos" are at the forefront of public anxieties about urban inequality and failed integration. These notorious neighbourhoods at the bottom of the moral spatial order are imagined as different and disconnected from the rest of the city. This paper examines how residents in Amsterdam Bijlmer, a peripheral social housing estate long portrayed as the Dutch ghetto, experience the symbolic denigration of their neighbourhood. Interviews show that all residents are highly aware of the negative racial, cultural and material stereotypes associated with their neighbourhood. However, these negative stereotypes are not equally felt: territorial stigma "sticks" more to some residents than others and substantial inequalities are observed in who carries the burden of renegotiating blemish of place. Differential engagement with stigma depends on how residents' identity and the materiality of their surroundings intersect with stigmatising narratives of place.Samenvatting: Zorgen in West-Europa over groeiende ongelijkheid en polarisatie in de samenleving richten zich in het bijzonder op een select groepje "probleemwijken" in de grote steden. Deze "beruchte" buurten liggen in de media onder een vergrootglas en lijken in de collectieve beeldvorming steeds verder verwijderd te raken van de rest van de samenleving. Dit onderzoek richt zich op de vraag hoe bewoners in de Amsterdamse Bijlmer te maken krijgen met zulke negatieve verslaglegging over hun buurt. Interviews geven inzicht in de negatieve raciale, culturele en materiele stereotypen die aan de wijk kleven. Tegelijkertijd blijkt dat sommige bewoners het buurtstigma makkelijker van zich af schudden dan anderen. Dit hangt af van hoe hun eigen klassepositie, raciale identiteit en woonplek samenvalt met stigmatiserende verhalen over de wijk. De gevolgen van ruimtelijke stigmatisering zijn dan ook ongelijk verdeeld: juist bewoners met meer marginale sociale posities dragen de last van het buurtstigma. Het onderzoek toont ten slotte aan dat bewoners zelf-vaak onbewust en onbedoeld-het stigma reproduceren in hun poging om zich van negatieve stereotypes te ontdoen.

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Section: Resident Experiences Of Territorial Stigmamentioning

confidence: 81%

On the Stickiness of Territorial Stigma: Diverging Experiences in Amsterdam’s Most Notorious Neighbourhood

2020

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“…neighbourhood belonging can be selective (Watt, 2009), in the sense that certain groups of residents may choose to identify with particular segments of the neighbourhood while disaffiliating from other segments (see also Benson & Jackson, 2013;Uitermark, Duyvendak, & kleinhans, 2007). In addition, residents can adopt a strategy of non-belonging, disaffiliating from the neighbourhood altogether (Pinkster, 2014). Whether belonging develops ultimately seems to depend on the interaction between social identity and place identity.…”

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Narratives of neighbourhood change and loss of belonging in an urban garden village

Pinkster

2016

Social & Cultural Geography

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In studies on the ties between residents and their residential surroundings, it is generally assumed that, over time, residents become more attached to their neighbourhood. However, as neighbourhoods change due to economic, political and social processes at higher spatial scales, so may residents' relationship to them. A qualitative case study in a working-class neighbourhood in Amsterdam explored the circumstances under which residents come to experience a loss of belonging. In-depth interviews provide insight into the way in which residents perceive, experience and make sense of processes of neighbourhood change. Although a particular group of Villagers express a strong sense of belonging to the neighbourhood, they perceive a process of neighbourhood decline, which they attribute to changing housing regimes, retrenchment of the local welfare state and shifting paradigms in neighbourhood governance. Consequently, the experienced disruption of neighbourhood life and local ways of 'doing' neighbourhood also result in feelings of discontent with governing institutions and the wider society. The study therefore draws attention to both the salience of the local in, and the relational nature of, neighbourhood belonging. Récits de transformation de quartier et de la perte d'appartenance dans un jardin de village urbain RÉSUMÉDans les études sur les liens entre les résidents et leur environnement résidentiel, on présuppose généralement que, avec le temps, les résidents s'attachent de plus en plus à leur quartier. Pourtant, au fur et à mesure que les quartiers changent à cause de processus économiques, politiques et sociaux à des échelles spatiales supérieures, les relations des résidents avec leur quartier changent avec eux. Une étude de cas qualitative dans un quartier ouvrier d'Amsterdam a exploré les circonstances dans lesquelles les résidents en sont venus à faire l'expérience d'une perte d'appartenance. Des entretiens approfondis donnent une idée de la façon dont les résidents perçoivent les processus de changement de quartier, comment ils vivent l'expérience

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“…Thus, the presence of middle-classes should help to activate mechanisms of distant or proximal role modelling, meaning stimulating marginalized people to emulate desirable behaviors of higher-class neighbours either by observing them from distance or by having direct social interaction (Graves, 2011). 2 Yet, research show that despite residential propinquity, middle-classes tend to avoid mixing with lower-class neighbours in public spaces and in other domains of everyday life (Pinkster, 2014;Watt, 2009). Indeed, social contact is much more a matter of lifestyles than simply tenure mixing (Kleinhans, 2004).…”

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Reframing social mix in affordable housing initiatives in Italy and in the Netherlands. Closing the gap between discourses and practices?

Costarelli

Kleinhans

Mugnano

2019

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A B S T R A C TEuropean countries are facing rising demand for affordable housing by a widespread and differentiated audience. Both in Italy and in the Netherlands policy-makers and practitioners address this emerging need by implementing new social housing projects targeting diverse social groups -such as students, young households, welfare dependents, and refugees -which results in a fine-grained social mix. This paper discusses the development of these initiatives within wider trends in housing policies and in relation to the domestic debate on social mix in the two countries. Drawing on Magic Mix and Housing Sociale projects as case studies, respectively in the Netherlands and in Italy, we aim to explore and unfold the contemporary meanings and the practices attached to the idea of social mix. In so doing, this paper paves the way for a new conceptualization of social mix in the current post-crisis and hyper-diversified European scenario. We discuss traces of continuity and discontinuity between these forms of social mix and the mainstream idea of tenure mix, which has been a cornerstone of area-based urban renewal policy in many European countries. This paper contributes to the existing literature by offering insights into new practices of social mix in housing sphere.

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“I Just Live Here”: Everyday Practices of Disaffiliation of Middle-class Households in Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods

Cited by 53 publications

References 23 publications

On the Stickiness of Territorial Stigma: Diverging Experiences in Amsterdam’s Most Notorious Neighbourhood

On the Stickiness of Territorial Stigma: Diverging Experiences in Amsterdam’s Most Notorious Neighbourhood

Narratives of neighbourhood change and loss of belonging in an urban garden village

Reframing social mix in affordable housing initiatives in Italy and in the Netherlands. Closing the gap between discourses and practices?

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