Politiken sozialer Mischung und die Produktivität von Rassismus im „gefährlichen Viertel“

Abstract

Abstract. In Germany, strategies of “social mixing” aiming at the development of “disadvantaged” neighborhoods have been widely established in urban politics. Such strategies are oriented towards attracting middle class residents and therefore are discussed as drivers of displacement and exclusion of “the disadvantaged”. In our paper, we analyze such urban transformation processes focusing on the productivity of racial classifications. We present results of a research project in which we examine the appropriation of urban resources (such as housing, neighborhood infrastructures, and public spaces) by residents in such quarters. Using an interactivist approach “from below” and qualitative research methods, our case study on the former “declining”, currently “stagnating” quarter Essen-Altendorf shows the productivity of racial classifications in the residents' negotiations on “rules” in the closer neighborhood or on the use of public spaces. Yet, racializing articulations correspond with the policies of social mixing as well as with the observed selective policing of a “dangerous quarter”.

Entmietet und verdrängt

“…: 208). Betancourt (2016: 257) Das jüngst abgeschlossene Forschungsprojekt »Aneignungskonf likte in mischungsorientierten Stadtentwicklungsprozessen« behandelt neben den konzeptionellen Fragen um Konf likte (oder ihr Ausbleiben) in Stadtentwicklungsprozessen auch die Perspektive der Verdrängten (Rinn/Wiese 2020;Rinn et al 2022;. Die Autor*innen entwickeln einen interaktionistischen Zugang zu Gentrifizierung und Verdrängung »from below« (Rinn et al 2021: 3) Senioren, Frauen und Jugend 2016: 229;Seifert 2015: 54).…”