Producing gentrifiable neighborhoods: race, stigma and struggle in Berlin-Neukölln

Kadıoğlu, Defne

doi:10.1080/02673037.2022.2042494

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“…For Wacquant (2008: 238), territorial stigma is closely linked – but cannot be reduced – to race and ethnic origin. As Pinkster et al (2020) and Kadıoğlu (2022) have argued, race is important to understand how territorial stigma is unevenly experienced by different groups of residents. My informants’ narratives indicate that this is also the case for former residents.…”

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“…Berlin-Neukölln and Duisburg-Marxloh). These neighbourhoods have come to be racialised indicators, ‘representative of the public concern about immigration and immigrants in Germany’ (Eksner, 2013: 337; see also Kadıoğlu, 2022; Soederberg, 2017). While this discourse has been traditionally centred on so-called guest worker quarters in West Germany, it has recently shift towards urban areas that are associated with refugees from the Middle East and immigrants from Eastern Europe (Böckler et al, 2017).…”

Section: Geographical Context and Datamentioning

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The long shadow of territorial stigma: Upward social mobility and the symbolic baggage of the old neighbourhood

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2022

Urban Studies

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In recent years, a burgeoning number of studies have shed light on the lived experience of territorial stigma. However, the vibrant academic discourse on the stigma of place focuses almost exclusively on residents living in marginalised neighbourhoods: it either overlooks or simplifies the lived experience of ‘moving out’ and ‘up’. Building upon 43 biographical interviews with individuals who experienced upward social mobility and were raised in stigmatised neighbourhoods in Germany, this article argues that the experience of exiting from the symbolic bottom of the urban structure is a more complex and conflictual one. In particular, this work sheds light on how former residents learn to relate to the symbolic baggage of having once lived in a notorious neighbourhood. By analysing the three prevailing coping strategies they engage in, the article shifts attention to the prolonged and lasting impact of territorial stigmatisation.

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The long shadow of territorial stigma: Upward social mobility and the symbolic baggage of the old neighbourhood

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2022

Urban Studies

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“…While some have highlighted the relation between territorial stigmatization and housing markets (Schultz Larsen, 2014, 2018) or sales (Jensen, 2021), these studies have generally not had non-profit housing commodification as their main concern (see, however, Risager, 2022). If this is in part explained by policy development, it is not explained by a lack of theoretical and empirical inspiration from other contexts: a growing body of international literature argues that territorial stigmatization can be activated to provide moral and political justification for state intervention with political-economic effects on urban materiality (August, 2014; Gray and Mooney, 2011; Kadıoğlu, 2022; Kallin, 2017; Kallin and Slater, 2014; Sisson, 2022; Slater, 2021; Slater and Anderson, 2012; Thörn and Holgersson, 2016; Wacquant, 2008; Weber, 2002; for an overview, see Schultz Larsen and Delica, 2019). The 2018 ‘Ghetto Law’ amounted to exactly such an activation of stigma whereby non-profit housing commodification was not only justified but rendered necessary.…”

Section: Denmark's ‘Ghetto’ Politics and Its Researchmentioning

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“…Racialization, too, can provide justification for urban interventions, such as ‘social mix’ redevelopment (Mele, 2019), and is often a key component of contemporary territorial stigmatization in the city (Kadıoğlu, 2022; Wacquant et al, 2014; for the Danish case, see Jensen, 2021). The concepts of race and racialization are, however, infrequently employed in the self-perceived ‘colour-blind and post-racial Danish society’ (Hassani, 2022: 68), especially vis-à-vis Muslims.…”

Section: Denmark's ‘Ghetto’ Politics and Its Researchmentioning

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“…To focus this exploration, this study further draws on Wacquant's (2008) concept of territorial stigmatization: the production of attaching blemish and taint to a place in a way that sticks to its inhabitants. Wacquant and others have argued that racialization is often a key component of contemporary territorial stigmatization in the city, but few empirical studies of this exist (Kadıoğlu, 2022;Wacquant et al, 2014). As I will elaborate in the next section, studies of the alleged 'ghettos' in Denmark have often employed the concept of territorial stigmatization without analysing the relation between this process and that of racialization.…”

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Territorial stigmatization and housing commodification under racial neoliberalism: The case of Denmark's ‘ghettos’

Risager

2022

Environ Plan A

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The relation between racialization and neoliberalism is relatively unexplored in urban geography, especially in the context of social democratic welfare regimes. This article aims to bridge this gap by applying the concept of racial neoliberalism, here referring to a co-constitutive relation between racialization and neoliberalism, to Denmark. Conceiving the country's so-called ‘ghetto’ politics as an expression of racial neoliberalism, the article retraces the development of this politics over the first two decades of the 21st century. I argue that territorial stigmatization and commodification of marginalized non-profit housing areas have been two co-constitutive expressions of racial neoliberalism that have intensified during this historical period. Examining three key policy moments through various grey literature, the article demonstrates how stigmatization has served to justify commodification, while the failure of the latter has been followed by intensified and bureaucratized stigmatization leading to new commodification efforts until culminating in the infamous 2018 ‘Ghetto Law’.

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Rassismus und Diskriminierung im Kontext gesundheitlicher Ungleichheit – ein narratives Review

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Koschollek,

Bozorgmehr

et al. 2023

Bundesgesundheitsbl

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ZusammenfassungRassismus und Diskriminierung als soziale Determinanten der Gesundheit stehen auch in Deutschland zunehmend im Fokus der Public-Health-Forschung. Studien zeigen Zusammenhänge mit physischer und psychischer Gesundheit bis hin zu Veränderungen auf zellulärer Ebene auf. Neben den gesundheitsschädigenden Effekten interpersoneller und direkter Diskriminierung ist die Relevanz des strukturellen und institutionellen Rassismus für die gesundheitliche Ungleichheit bislang nur wenig beleuchtet. Im Rahmen einer narrativen Übersichtsarbeit werden relevante und aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse zusammengestellt und kritisch diskutiert sowie Handlungsempfehlungen für Forschung und Praxis abgeleitet.Strukturelle und institutionelle Aspekte von Diskriminierung und Rassismus stehen in engem Zusammenhang mit der gesundheitlichen Lage. So steht die systematische Benachteiligung in den Bereichen Bildung, Arbeit, Wohnen sowie Gesundheitsversorgung im Zusammenhang mit der allgemeinen, psychischen und physischen Gesundheit, mit der Inanspruchnahme von Präventions- und Versorgungsleistungen sowie mit dem Gesundheitsverhalten.Eine Analyse der Verschränkung von Lebens‑, Wohn- und Arbeitsbedingungen mit der gesundheitlichen Lage von Menschen mit (und ohne) Migrationsgeschichte – generell und in Verbindung mit Rassismus und Diskriminierung – erscheint notwendig, um gezielte Maßnahmen im Hinblick auf Verhältnisprävention abzuleiten, statt auf bloße Verhaltensprävention zu fokussieren. Neben praktischen Interventionen (Trainings, Aufklärungsarbeit, communitybasierten Ansätzen) ist die Weiterentwicklung methodischer Aspekte im Bereich der Erhebung und Analyse von Daten wichtig, um dieser Problemlage umfassend in Forschung und Praxis zu begegnen.

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Producing gentrifiable neighborhoods: race, stigma and struggle in Berlin-Neukölln

Cited by 8 publications

References 66 publications

The long shadow of territorial stigma: Upward social mobility and the symbolic baggage of the old neighbourhood

The long shadow of territorial stigma: Upward social mobility and the symbolic baggage of the old neighbourhood

Territorial stigmatization and housing commodification under racial neoliberalism: The case of Denmark's ‘ghettos’

Rassismus und Diskriminierung im Kontext gesundheitlicher Ungleichheit – ein narratives Review

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