Of Dogs and Men: The Making of Spatial Boundaries in a Gentrifying Neighborhood

Tissot, Sylvie

doi:10.1111/j.1540-6040.2011.01377.x

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“…In doing so, we uncovered a regularity of preferences (or dispositions) towards certain forms of care that can be tested by others in future research. Tissot (2011) highlighted a dynamic tension between inclusionary and exclusionary facets of community-building in relation to dog-ownership. More recently, Power (2013) conducted qualitative research with dog-owning apartment dwellers in Sydney, and has provided a finegrained analysis of how the 'ripple effects' (Wood et al, 2007) of social interactions involving dogs are communitarian, but can include exclusionary practices, entail various forms of discipline, and lead to social sanctions.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Habitus and responsible dog-ownership: reconsidering the health promotion implications of ‘dog-shaped’ holes in people’s lives

Degeling

Rock

Rogers

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Critical Public Health

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Responsible dog-ownership has been identified as a point of intervention to promote physical activity, based upon an expectation of dog-walking in public space. Nevertheless, quantitative research has found variability among owners in their dog-walking. In this study, we explore the implications for health promotion of such variability. We do so by drawing on the concepts of habitus and social capital to analyze qualitative interviews. Participants were recruited from a social network in a cosmopolitan city with a policy framework intended to ensure equitable access to public space for dog-walkers. The analysis confirms dog-ownership can promote both physical activity and social capital, to the extent of mutual reinforcement. Yet we identified patterns of care in which dogs could influence people's emotional well-being without promoting physical activity. In particular, some owners were not capable of extensive dog-walking but still benefited emotionally from dog-ownership and from interpersonal interactions facilitated by dog-ownership. Some participants' dogs, however, could not be walked in public without risking public safety and social sanctions. Responsible dog ownership can therefore also entail not exercising dogs. Contra to the emerging ideal in health promotion, a "dog-shaped hole" in someone's life does not always take the form of a walking companion.

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“…Tissot's (2011) ethnographic and historical analysis focuses on how one neighbourhood park came to be redesigned and officially re-designated as a "dog-run" used mainly by newly arrived higherincome white residents. Dog-owners who are less affluent, reports Tissot, tend to frequent another park where they unleash their dogs illegally.…”

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Habitus and responsible dog-ownership: reconsidering the health promotion implications of ‘dog-shaped’ holes in people’s lives

Degeling

Rock

Rogers

et al. 2015

Critical Public Health

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“…Even so, this kind of policy intervention still appears to serve privileged communities to a greater extent than disadvantaged ones (Toohey & Rock, 2011), and exemptions to leashing laws in select parks can also reinforce positions of privilege (Tissot, 2011).…”

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Public health ethics and more-than-human solidarity

Rock

Degeling

2015

Social Science & Medicine

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This article contributes to the literature on One Health and public health ethics by expanding the principle of solidarity. We conceptualize solidarity to encompass not only practices intended to assist other people, but also practices intended to assist non-human others, including animals, plants, or places. To illustrate how manifestations of humanist and more-than-human solidarity may selectively complement one another, or collide, recent responses to Hendra virus in Australia and Rabies virus in Canada serve as case examples. Given that caring relationships are foundational to health promotion, people's efforts to care for nonhuman others are highly relevant to public health, even when these efforts conflict with edicts issued in the name of public health. In its most optimistic explication, One Health aims to attain optimal health for humans, non-human animals and their shared environments. As a field, public health ethics needs to move beyond an exclusive preoccupation with humans, so as to account for moral complexity arising from people's diverse connections with places, plants, and non-human animals.

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“…According to Gazit (), this is the case in multiethnic or multinational urban spaces such as Jerusalem. Mixed housing projects may also trigger boundary work as some studies of gentrifying spaces suggest (Tissot, ; Jackson and Benson, ). Here I argue that situations of downward mobility in spatial proximity to the poor also enhance boundary work among those who do not want to be confused with those at the bottom.…”

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The Weakness Of Symbolic Boundaries: Handling Exclusion Among Montevideo's Squatters

Álvarez-Rivadulla¹

2017

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article argues that material conditions limit the possibilities of symbolic boundaries becoming markers of social differentiation, especially among stigmatized groups. Using squatter settlements in Montevideo, Uruguay, as a case study, it shows that symbolic boundaries are hard to maintain when material conditions and the stigmas associated with certain places work against them. Based on participant observation and oral histories, it analyses how squatters experienced the move to a squatter settlement. It argues that, for many, it was a way to resist exclusion, a struggle to belong to the city and to protect a social position that structural changes under neoliberalism had put at risk. This required engaging in difficult symbolic boundary work to distinguish themselves from cantegriles—poor and crowded older shantytowns—and claim dignity as workers and residents of a regular city neighbourhood. Yet, there were many limits to their fight in an increasingly fragmented city. Through follow‐up visits to several settlements over almost two decades and tracking the case in the local press, through available survey data and secondary literature, this article offers a longitudinal perspective of symbolic boundaries in the making.

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Of Dogs and Men: The Making of Spatial Boundaries in a Gentrifying Neighborhood

Cited by 79 publications

References 34 publications

Habitus and responsible dog-ownership: reconsidering the health promotion implications of ‘dog-shaped’ holes in people’s lives

Habitus and responsible dog-ownership: reconsidering the health promotion implications of ‘dog-shaped’ holes in people’s lives

Public health ethics and more-than-human solidarity

The Weakness Of Symbolic Boundaries: Handling Exclusion Among Montevideo's Squatters

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