The Council Estate and “Being Placed”: Everyday Resistances to the Stigmatization of Community

Leaney, Sarah

doi:10.1080/14036096.2019.1624387

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“…As such, dominant ideas of the 'undeserving poor' not only inform austerity policies but also become discursive repertoires of selfhood (Shildrick and MacDonald, 2013). Therefore, stigmatising divisions between 'deserving' and 'undeserving' have become a resource of identity formation for working-class groups (Leaney, 2020). In this way, austerity politics have material and affective consequences for the poorest members of society.…”

Section: The Neoliberalisation Of Hementioning

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Campus closures and the devaluing of emplaced Higher Education: widening participation in neoliberal times

Leaney

Mwale

2021

High Educ

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Widening participation (WP) in Higher Education (HE) is often positioned as key to resolving social inequality, it underpins arguments that increasing levels of education lead to reduced levels of poverty. Located within the tension of duty and need, WP is positioned as both the responsibility of the University and a financial imperative. This paper considers the student experience of this tension, specifically the contradictions between discourses of equality and diversity and neoliberal conceptualisations of HE as market. Drawing upon qualitative research conducted during the closure of a WP satellite campus, the paper explores the consequences of the withdrawal of HE provision for 'local' students. Utilising focus group methodologies to develop an approach for 'thinking with' seven WP students, the paper explores the material, social and affective contexts within which students experience university in their 'hometown'. Foregrounding participants' critical understanding of their 'place' within a marketised HE sector, we consider the formation of student identity as a site of struggles for value. We argue, the closure of satellite campuses must be understood within the context of deepening social-spatial inequalities. Developing a critique of individualised constructions of 'social mobility', we outline an alternative imaginary of HE as an intergenerational community resource.

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Section: The Neoliberalisation Of Hementioning

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Campus closures and the devaluing of emplaced Higher Education: widening participation in neoliberal times

Leaney

Mwale

2021

High Educ

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“…Not that this is surprising. We know that council estates are deeply intricate spaces of home and belonging where social divisions can also manifest (Gidley 2013;Hanley 2007;Leaney 2019;Lewis 2017;McKenzie 2015;Watt 2006). When such delicate affective landscapes are disrupted, repairing, rebuilding and assembling life again will be deeply fraught.…”

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Wallace

2020

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Amid a globalised crisis in secure housing provision, this article zooms in on the specific experiences of older working-class people coping with public housing demolition and forced neighbourhood transition in London. London's new-build mixed tenure housing developments provide varying proportions of social rental housing, some of it made available to tenants of the council estate it replaced. This article examines the experiences of older people who have taken up the 'opportunity' of 'return' and explores the multi-faceted work they are forced to undertake as they move into unfamiliar and capricious social, physical and political landscapes superimposed on the collapsed infrastructure of their old estate. The article brings themes of 'un-homing', ageing in place and everyday 'repair' work into encounter and calls for greater qualitative understanding of the 'return' experience as a dimension of forced relocation by housing restructuring and tenurial mixing projects.

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“…According to Wacquant, the corrosion of people's sense of self, the deprivation of their social relations and of their ability and capacity for collective action are direct results of the symbolic defamation of spaces (Wacquant et al, 2014;Kipfer and Petrunia, 2009;Kirkness, 2014;Schultz Larsen, 2014). At the same time, however, research has also demonstrated that those stigmatized also respond to, challenge, and resist symbolic degradation and defamation of those spaces they call home, thereby directly challenging Wacquant's thesis of the internalization of stigma (Sisson, 2020;Leaney, 2020;Cuny, 2019;Queirós and Pereira, 2018;Kirkness, 2014;Pinkster, 2014).…”

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Discursive practices of territorial stigmatization: how newspapers frame violence and crime in a Chicago community

Schwarze

2021

Urban Geography

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This article deciphers the discursive practices through which Chicago's two major newspapers, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times, stigmatize the South Shore community on Chicago's South Side. Through a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), this article provides an in-depth linguistic analysis of the causation of territorial stigmatization through press coverage. It demonstrates that the two newspapers not only stigmatize South Shore through practices of hyperbolic naming, but that territorial stigmatization also flows from the transitivity of newspaper articles itself. By focusing on the transitivity of newspaper articles and their role in the production of territorial stigma, this article broadens our understanding of how territorial stigma is produced through symbolic defamation and denigration of spaces. It is argued that the two newspapers normalize and naturalize violence and crime as commonsense characteristics of everyday life in South Shore, thereby producing an image of South Shore as a space determined and indelibly shaped by violence and crime. segregation and discrimination, underscored by the erection of architectural and material borders, marginalizing and discriminating urban planning decisions, such as public housing transformation, and the policing and the criminalization of black communities (Shabazz, 2015;Rothstein, 2017;Chaskin and Joseph, 2015;Massey and Denton, 1993). In media representations, Chicago's South Side constitutes an economic Badlands in which street gangs are drivers of urban violence and insecurity (Wacquant, 2008;Aspholm, 2020;Stuart, 2020). It is in this historical and socio-cultural context in which newspapers' discursive practices of territorial stigmatization operate, and which they also reproduce and reinforce.In an attempt to transcend the well-known finding that newspapers and journalists are specialists in the symbolic defamation and stigmatization of spaces (Wassenberg, 2004; Devereaux et al., 2011), this article examines how -that is, through which discursive practices -newspapers and journalists exert territorial stigmatization. Drawing on a five-year discourse analysis of press coverage on the South Shore community by Chicago's two major newspapers, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times, this article demonstrates that both papers stigmatize the community as a space determined and indelibly shaped by violence and crime.Both papers normalize violence and crime as quotidian to communal space in South Shore. I argue that this normalization of violence and crime in South Shore takes place via three discursive practices. First, both newspapers stigmatize South Shore through various naming practices, such as calling the community 'crime-infested', 'ailing', or 'a warzone'. Second, both papers sensationalize violence and crime in South Shore through hyperbolic descriptions of violence. Third, territorial stigmatization is produced by journalists' transitive choices when reporting on shootings in the South Shore community. Instead of informing about the ci...

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The Council Estate and “Being Placed”: Everyday Resistances to the Stigmatization of Community

Cited by 11 publications

References 66 publications

Campus closures and the devaluing of emplaced Higher Education: widening participation in neoliberal times

Campus closures and the devaluing of emplaced Higher Education: widening participation in neoliberal times

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