Territorial stigmatization and local belonging

Jensen, Sune Qvotrup; Christensen, Ann-Dorte

doi:10.1080/13604813.2012.663556

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“…Therefore, in response to arguments of the ineluctable power of market‐driven urban redevelopment, it is possible at times, as the participants in this study indicated, to possess an ability to imagine the reversioning of space and their place within it. As others have reported, and this study supports, young people do not necessarily internalize stigma associated with their ‘territory' (see, e.g., Jensen and Christensen, ). Structurally it is also unclear if the context in Hackney can be simply divided into ‘marginal' versus ‘the middle', when it can be argued that a key cohort driving cultural change in the borough (creative industries and, indeed, even academia; see e.g.…”

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confidence: 86%

Spatial Dislocation and Affective Displacement: Youth Perspectives on Gentrification in London

Butcher

Dickens

2016

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Analyses of contemporary processes of gentrification have been primarily produced from adult perspectives with little focus on how age affects or mediates urban change. However, in analysing young people's responses to transformations in their neighbourhood we argue that there is evidence for a more complex relationship between ‘gentrifiers' and residents than existing arguments of antagonism or tolerance would suggest. Using a participatory video methodology to document experiences of gentrification in the east London borough of Hackney, we found that young people involved in this study experienced their transforming city through processes of spatial dislocation and affective displacement. The former incorporated a sense of disorientation in the temporal disjunctions of the speed of change, while the latter invoked the embodiment of a sense of not belonging generated within classed and intercultural interactions. However, there are expressions of ambivalence rather than straightforward rejection. Benefits of gentrification were noted, including conditions of alterity and the possibility to transcend normative behaviours that they found uncomfortable. Young people demonstrated the capacity to reimagine their relationship with the complex spaces they call home. The findings suggest a need to reframe debates on gentrification to include a more nuanced understanding of its differential impact on young people.

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Spatial Dislocation and Affective Displacement: Youth Perspectives on Gentrification in London

Butcher

Dickens

2016

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…We also know that there are implicit ways of discursively marking territories as inferior through popular media and everyday conversation (Wacquant, 2007;2008;Jensen and Christensen, 2012;Wacquant et al, 2014). As a mechanism for grafting ideas of disorder and criminality onto particular spaces, territorial stigma associates residents with damaging traits--for example, as criminal, dangerous or dirty--which become domi nant through a process of moving from individuals to populations and then finally on to spaces themselves (Quillian and Pager, 2001;Sampson and Raudenbush, 2004;Wacquant, 2007;Wilson, 2007;Murphy, 2012).…”

Section: Racialized Institutions and The Origins Of Territorial Stigmamentioning

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The Structural Origins of Territorial Stigma: Water and Racial Politics in Metropolitan Detroit, 1950s–2010s

Kornberg

2016

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article develops the concept of territorial stigma by analyzing how it can be cultivated at the level of political institutions across administrative divides. I consider the case of Detroit's regional water department, which until 2016 was owned and operated by the city and served over 120 suburban regional municipalities. I start by examining the cooperative city–suburban water system expansion in the 1950s and then analyze the rise of Detroit's first black‐led administration in 1974, after which the water authority became a key regional institution that provided an opportunity for white suburban leaders to organize against the city. I find that suburban leaders advanced their immediate goal of mitigating rate hikes by declaring the city to be greedy and inept, instead of acknowledging structural conditions that increased operational costs. This had the effect of reproducing racialized stereotypes at the political level, which had enduring effects. The argument builds on the existing literature on territorial stigma by (1) identifying state institutions as sites for the propagation of stigma and (2) considering stigmatized places in relation to their non‐stigmatized neighbors. The analysis integrates material‐structural and cultural‐symbolic factors in order to understand the perpetuation of regional urban inequalities.

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“…While some previous studies have found that residents reject territorial stigma entirely and offer wholly positive assessments of their community (e.g. Jensen and Christensen ), none of the youth I spoke with espoused this kind of untroubled account of Camden. In fact, several told me they would prefer to live elsewhere, if they had the choice.…”

Section: Negotiating Territorial Stigmamentioning

confidence: 69%

“…This research builds on previous research demonstrating the importance of studying the experiences and strategies of those who dwell within pathologised places (August ; Jensen and Christensen ; Kirkness ). These youth confront this stigma openly, and emphatically reject the claim that “I'm Black, I live in Camden, I'm never gonna make it”.…”

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Youth, Temporality, and Territorial Stigma: Finding Good in Camden, New Jersey

Cairns

2018

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The concept of “territorial stigmatisation” identifies the role of symbolic denigration in the production of marginalised places. In this paper, I draw on ethnographic research with a food justice organisation in Camden, New Jersey, to examine youth's responses to territorial stigma. The analysis demonstrates how Black and Latinx youth rewrite the story of Camden in a way that locates the “good” within it, using narratives of the city's prosperous history and possible futures to recuperate value within a stigmatised place. I argue that the perspectives of youth illuminate the temporal dimensions of territorial stigma, situating the blemish of place in relation to conceptions of individual and social change. The article contributes to a growing literature examining the strategic responses of those who dwell in pathologised places. Because youth are uniquely situated within the production of place, their perspectives offer important insights in this process.

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Territorial stigmatization and local belonging

Cited by 106 publications

References 31 publications

Spatial Dislocation and Affective Displacement: Youth Perspectives on Gentrification in London

Spatial Dislocation and Affective Displacement: Youth Perspectives on Gentrification in London

The Structural Origins of Territorial Stigma: Water and Racial Politics in Metropolitan Detroit, 1950s–2010s

Youth, Temporality, and Territorial Stigma: Finding Good in Camden, New Jersey

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