<i>Voices</i> in the revolution: Resisting territorial stigma and social relegation in Porto’s historic centre (1974–1976)

Queirós, João; Pereira, Virgílio Borges

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“…Here, physical occupations won significant housing reforms, including the abolition of council housing regulations and estate 'overseers'. As with the other examples I have outlined, it also facilitated a counter-public space in which residents and allies developed a critique of the neighbourhood's dominant representation, thus providing a material base for symbolic appropriation (Queirós and Pereira, 2018). The distinction between physical and symbolic struggles is thus not rigid; physical appropriations of space can provide a material base for discursive politics, and symbolic appropriations can mobilise physical ones.…”

Section: Alternative Practices Or: Physical Territorial Strugglesmentioning

confidence: 83%

“…The new social relations that emerged through this material appropriation facilitated new solidarities, place attachments, and identities (Maestri, 2019). Queirós and Pereira (2018) suggest that this politics of occupation may not be so new in their account of struggles in 1970s São João de Deus, Porto. Here, physical occupations won significant housing reforms, including the abolition of council housing regulations and estate 'overseers'.…”

Section: Alternative Practices Or: Physical Territorial Strugglesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Everyday territorial struggles can be an important precondition to more organised struggles (Queirós and Pereira, 2018), yet they are also a meaningful mode of struggle in their own right by helping inhabitants of stigmatised territories combat the internalisation of stigma through self-inscription, lateral denigration, or mutual distancing. Contrary to Wacquant's (2008) diagnosis of the 'dissolution of place', close social bonds are often created in stigmatised territories and inhabitants have often stressed the contradictions between stigmatising images of the neighbourhoods they live in and their own experiences, highlighting overlooked or misrepresented positive dimensions such as physical amenities, accessibility, community sociability and conviviality, and belonging and place attachment (August, 2014;Cairns, 2018;Garbin and Millington, 2012;Kirkness, 2014;McKenzie, 2012;Slater and Anderson, 2012;Pereira and Queirós, 2014;van Eijk, 2012;Zhang, 2017).…”

Section: Everyday Territorial Strugglesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Territory and territorial stigmatisation: On the production, consequences and contestation of spatial disrepute

Sisson

2020

Progress in Human Geography

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Territorial stigmatisation emerged over the past decade as the prevailing concept for understanding the phenomenon of disreputable places and the processes by which they are produced. Following the work of Loïc Wacquant, several studies have articulated its centrality to the neoliberal restructuring of capital and the state. Departing from Wacquant, several have also examined the various forms of resistance to territorial stigmatisation. In reviewing this literature, this paper argues and outlines how territory – paradoxically under-theorised in the literature to date – can clarify the production of territorial stigmatisation, the obfuscations and legitimations it performs, and resistance and contestation.

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Section: Alternative Practices Or: Physical Territorial Strugglesmentioning

confidence: 83%

Section: Alternative Practices Or: Physical Territorial Strugglesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Everyday Territorial Strugglesmentioning

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Territory and territorial stigmatisation: On the production, consequences and contestation of spatial disrepute

Sisson

2020

Progress in Human Geography

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“…Poor people and poor places have long been stigmatised (Batty and Flint ; Patrick ; Queirós and Pereira ; Walker ; Walker et al ; Wright ). As early as the 16 th century, processes of differentiation and demarcation worked to create a dichotomy between the poor and the non‐poor, and a further distinction between the deserving and undeserving poor (Jutte ).…”

Section: Poverty (De)stigmatisation and (Social) Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While not figuring prominently within Wacquant’s initial work, subsequent analyses have drawn attention to contestation and resistance through counter‐discourses and spatial interventions (e.g. Cuny ; Garbin and Millington ; Horgan ; Kirkness ; Kirkness and Tije‐Dra ; Maestri ; Quieros and Pereira ; Rogers et al ). Multiple accounts have described how resistance and contestation were fostered by residents’ shared sense of ownership, belonging, and attachment to place.…”

Section: Poverty (De)stigmatisation and (Social) Mediamentioning

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#WeAreBeneficiaries: Contesting Poverty Stigma Through Social Media

2020

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Showcasing stories of welfare beneficiaries in their own words, a recent Aotearoa (New Zealand)-based campaign called "We Are Beneficiaries" used social media to create a space of contestation to the widespread stigmatisation of poverty. While existing literature strongly emphasises the role played by traditional media in constructing and reinforcing stigma, and has more recently begun to explore resistance and contestation, relatively few accounts address efforts, like the We Are Beneficiaries campaign, that seek to destigmatise poverty stigma via social media. Accordingly, this paper argues that social media can serve as a counterpublic space for the destigmatisation of poverty. By discussing how the We Are Beneficiaries campaign refuted stigmatising narratives, critiqued institutions and sought to build solidarity among and with welfare beneficiaries, the paper draws attention to the potential of social media in the development of counterdiscourses as well as new political identities and claims-making.

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Discursive practices of territorial stigmatization: how newspapers frame violence and crime in a Chicago community

Schwarze

2021

Urban Geography

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This article deciphers the discursive practices through which Chicago's two major newspapers, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times, stigmatize the South Shore community on Chicago's South Side. Through a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), this article provides an in-depth linguistic analysis of the causation of territorial stigmatization through press coverage. It demonstrates that the two newspapers not only stigmatize South Shore through practices of hyperbolic naming, but that territorial stigmatization also flows from the transitivity of newspaper articles itself. By focusing on the transitivity of newspaper articles and their role in the production of territorial stigma, this article broadens our understanding of how territorial stigma is produced through symbolic defamation and denigration of spaces. It is argued that the two newspapers normalize and naturalize violence and crime as commonsense characteristics of everyday life in South Shore, thereby producing an image of South Shore as a space determined and indelibly shaped by violence and crime. segregation and discrimination, underscored by the erection of architectural and material borders, marginalizing and discriminating urban planning decisions, such as public housing transformation, and the policing and the criminalization of black communities (Shabazz, 2015;Rothstein, 2017;Chaskin and Joseph, 2015;Massey and Denton, 1993). In media representations, Chicago's South Side constitutes an economic Badlands in which street gangs are drivers of urban violence and insecurity (Wacquant, 2008;Aspholm, 2020;Stuart, 2020). It is in this historical and socio-cultural context in which newspapers' discursive practices of territorial stigmatization operate, and which they also reproduce and reinforce.In an attempt to transcend the well-known finding that newspapers and journalists are specialists in the symbolic defamation and stigmatization of spaces (Wassenberg, 2004; Devereaux et al., 2011), this article examines how -that is, through which discursive practices -newspapers and journalists exert territorial stigmatization. Drawing on a five-year discourse analysis of press coverage on the South Shore community by Chicago's two major newspapers, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times, this article demonstrates that both papers stigmatize the community as a space determined and indelibly shaped by violence and crime.Both papers normalize violence and crime as quotidian to communal space in South Shore. I argue that this normalization of violence and crime in South Shore takes place via three discursive practices. First, both newspapers stigmatize South Shore through various naming practices, such as calling the community 'crime-infested', 'ailing', or 'a warzone'. Second, both papers sensationalize violence and crime in South Shore through hyperbolic descriptions of violence. Third, territorial stigmatization is produced by journalists' transitive choices when reporting on shootings in the South Shore community. Instead of informing about the ci...

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Voices in the revolution: Resisting territorial stigma and social relegation in Porto’s historic centre (1974–1976)

Cited by 24 publications

References 26 publications

Territory and territorial stigmatisation: On the production, consequences and contestation of spatial disrepute

Territory and territorial stigmatisation: On the production, consequences and contestation of spatial disrepute

#WeAreBeneficiaries: Contesting Poverty Stigma Through Social Media

Discursive practices of territorial stigmatization: how newspapers frame violence and crime in a Chicago community

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