Territorial stigmatization in theory and practice, and its implications for community development: an introduction to the themed section

Meade, Rosie R.

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“…191-192), describes as "a phenomenon that both expresses and normalizes the othering and the negative construction, representation, and government of certain geographical communities and places." Meade's (2021) observation is instructive in that it moves the focus beyond an understanding of territorial stigma that is purely about the "stigmatised territories" to suggest that the stigma attached to places does not emerge in a vacuum and that stigmatisation of place is not a neutral act. Rather, people and places are othered "somehow" and perhaps even by desig; moreover, this practice is normalised through representation and governance.…”

Section: Territorial Stigma and Socioeconomic Discriminationmentioning

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Policy Silences and Poverty in Ireland: An Argument for Inclusive Approaches

Whelan

2024

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Policy documents shape and inform policy but they are not neutral objects. Policy documents can also silence through the exclusion and omission of discrete knowledges transmitted through testimony and lived experience. Even where steps are taken to ensure inclusion, policies can be underpinned by a policy making process that also potentially omits and silences through a narrow conception of how to include the voices of those directly affected by policy in the policy making process. This article will address the phenomenon of “policy silences” in the following ways: Firstly, by taking inspiration from Bacchi’s (2009) policy analysis framework—which asks of policy documents “what is the problem represented to be?” (the WPR approach)—and focusing on question no. 4 of the WPR framework—which asks, in part, “where are the silences?”—the Irish policy document <em>Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020‐2025</em> will be briefly reviewed. Following this, the approach taken in a creative, arts‐based, participatory research project which included, mapping, photography and walking interviews as a means of exploring the lived experiences and hidden geographies of poverty will be presented as a way of demonstrating inclusive research practice and as a means of tacitly problematizing and further critiquing an anaemic understanding of inclusion which potentially creates “policy silences.” Finally, an argument for forms of inclusion that go beyond current practices to include, in creative ways, the voices of those directly affected by policy in the policy making process will be put forth.

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Section: Territorial Stigma and Socioeconomic Discriminationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy Silences and Poverty in Ireland: An Argument for Inclusive Approaches

Whelan

2024

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“…The place in question here, the North East region of Delhi, is notorious for petty crime, drug dealing, and smuggling and is thus a heavily surveilled and policed area. The presence of the police, however, is not for protection but for monitoring and control of the residents (Khanikar 2018) because of the territorial stigmatisation of the population (Meade 2021). The territorial stigmatisation even by the police is also the reason this area is known as "punishment posting" amongst the police who do not expect any appreciation from the state for their efforts in the area.…”

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CCTVs and the Criminal City

Narayan

2023

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This paper investigates how surveillance technologies used by the police, such as close circuit cameras (CCTVs) along with facial recognition, further solidify the perception of poor areas of the city as criminal, thus limiting the opportunities of the residents of these areas culturally, socially, and economically. Slums, immigrant colonies, and shanty towns have long been considered hotbeds of crime and illegal activities. These areas are generally marked as unsafe in the popular imagination. I am interested to see how (and if) communities in these spaces modify their behaviour in order to escape the extra watchful presence of the state in the form of CCTV cameras. I also want to see how these spaces evolve in terms of their interaction with other parts of the city as a result of the use of such exacerbated surveillance technologies. This paper is based on ongoing ethnographic work in one such marked area in the North East part of Delhi where video footage from CCTV cameras, along with mobile phone cameras, was extensively used for police investigations (with additional use of a standalone facial recognition program) following deadly riots that killed a record number of people in the area and destroyed many businesses in February 2020.

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“…Such places can become repositories of negative memories, meanings, or events that can pose significant threats to identity and stimulate a wide range of cognitive and behavioral responses [9,24]. Nowadays, research is showing an increasing interest in territorial stigmatization processes-i.e., "the negative construction, representation, and government of certain geographical communities and places" [25] (p. 191). It often focuses on the psychosocial experience of people living in sacrifice zones where territories and related subaltern and oppressed social groups are economically exploited and also culturally stigmatized and undervalued in the name of economic development, cf.…”

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Coping with Territorial Stigma and Devalued Identities: How Do Social Representations of an Environmentally Degraded Place Affect Identity and Agency?

2023

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This article examines people-place relationships in a carbon-intensive area—i.e., heavily dependent on the steel industry and marked by severe environmental degradation—involved in the EU Just Transition Mechanism (Taranto, Italy). Drawing upon a psychosocial perspective grounded on social representations theory, this article focuses on intertwining the sense of place, identity processes, and agency to understand the dynamics of place stigma and identity devaluation. In-depth semi-structured interviews with active residents were thematically and discursively analyzed. The results suggest both theoretical and applied insights. Overall, they highlight a widely shared negative representation of the place related to territorial stigmatization, ambivalent place attachments, and devaluation of place-based and social identities. To cope with such processes and dynamics, identity processes seem to act as self-protective mechanisms both at a personal and social level. The article concludes by inviting a more comprehensive conceptualization of just transition, harm restoration, and related territorial planning to include the psychosocial processes underlying the community’s well-being and identity.

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Territorial stigmatization in theory and practice, and its implications for community development: an introduction to the themed section

Cited by 13 publications

References 24 publications

Policy Silences and Poverty in Ireland: An Argument for Inclusive Approaches

Policy Silences and Poverty in Ireland: An Argument for Inclusive Approaches

CCTVs and the Criminal City

Coping with Territorial Stigma and Devalued Identities: How Do Social Representations of an Environmentally Degraded Place Affect Identity and Agency?

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