The Established, the Outsiders and Scale Strategies: Studying Local Power Conflicts

Hogenstijn, Maarten; Middelkoop, Daniël van; Terlouw, Kees

doi:10.1111/j.1467-954x.2008.00780.x

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“…4. The capability of the established outsider concept is demonstrated also in recent research (May 2004, Hogenstijn et al 2008, Loyal 2011, O'Connor and Goodwin 2012. 5.…”

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Everyone knew everyone: diversity, community memory and a new established–outsider figuration

Meier¹

2013

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This article explores the transformation of a community and its diversity as narrated by former industrial workers from a neighbourhood in Nuremberg, in a context in which company-based social housing of workers had been replaced by private rented accommodation accessed by middle class residents of migrant backgrounds. In biographical interviews, narratives emerge in which diversity and social difference are not seen as ethnic difference, but rather as a power difference within an established-outsider figuration. In this figuration, heterogeneous past and present cultural practices are homogenised through community control and regulation along normative rules as defined by the established. Workers' nostalgic laments for the loss of their former status show that figuration of established and outsiders is dynamic, opening up new ways of thinking about diverse place-making and alternative perspectives on urban gentrification.

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“…4. The capability of the established outsider concept is demonstrated also in recent research (May 2004, Hogenstijn et al 2008, Loyal 2011, O'Connor and Goodwin 2012. 5.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 84%

Everyone knew everyone: diversity, community memory and a new established–outsider figuration

Meier¹

2013

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“…It is a term suggesting an irrational or even neurotic fear and hatred of the other, which is certainly contradicted by the political logic discovered in the informal settlements of Atteridgeville – a finding that reinforces similar indications by Monson (2012) and Kerr and Durrheim (2013). The paper has also introduced a form of anteriority that is often overlooked in the proliferation of studies of autochthony in the politics of belonging in Africa (Bøås 2009; Espeland 2011; Marshall-Fratani 2006) – temporal relations that resonate with notions of the established and the outsider (Elias and Scotson 1965; Hogenstijn et al 2008). These resemble ‘autochthony’, but without its notorious primordial claims to the soil (Geschiere 2009).…”

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Everyday Politics and Collective Mobilization Against Foreigners in a South African Shack Settlement

Monson¹

2015

Africa

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In contrast to the tolerant and largely peaceful ‘living politics' of informal settlements, as embodied by the social movement Abahlali baseMjondolo, this article considers a darker side of squatter politics: ‘xenophobic’ mobilization. I show how the historical stratification of citizenship in South Africa remains spatially embedded in longstanding informal settlements, where distinctive repertoires of collective action have been shaped by a (still unfinished) history of struggle for inclusion. Using archival research and interviews conducted in the informal settlements of Atteridgeville, Gauteng, I show how the continuing struggle for equal citizenship draws on shared experiences of mundane hardship and collective labour, giving rise to social distance between established local squatters and politically indifferent foreign newcomers. At times of protest, this polarity is concentrated by and converges with familiar practices of insurgent citizenship, creating a context for mobilization against foreigners. In this sense, ‘xenophobic’ mobilization may be seen to articulate a claim for inclusion by structurally excluded ‘citizens', rather than an exclusionary claim by those who already belong. The article provides a useful counterpoint to readings of ‘xenophobic’ violence that focus on the role of elite discourses, instrumental leaders or crude racial identities in shaping such mobilization.

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“…During conflicts between social groups, the actors can use a strategy of ‘jumping scale’: upscaling or downscaling (Hogenstijn et al 2008 ). Cox ( 1998 ) calls this process ‘constructing spaces of engagement’.…”

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“…Terlouw ( 2017 ) argues that upscaling the conflict arena enables some groups to use their links with powerful groups or individuals to improve their position locally or even on a broader scale. Hogenstijn et al ( 2008 ) are differencing between upscaling the figuration and upscaling the conflict. The latter, is about trying to refer the conflict to a higher spatial scale, where the weak group can achieve a stronger position on the power balance.…”

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Bauxite mining at Atewa Forest Reserve, Ghana: a political ecology of a conservation-exploitation conflict

Purwins

2020

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Atewa Forest Reserve in the Eastern Region of Ghana represents one of only two reserves with upland evergreen forests in Ghana but is also a possible site for bauxite mining. The Government of Ghana deployed an infrastructure in anticipation for a refined bauxite agreement with China. Ghana’s Government seeks to develop an integrated Bauxite-Aluminum Industry; however, several NGOs try to protect the Atewa Forest and propose that the area should be upgraded to a National Park. In this study, this conservation-exploitation conflict is analyzed from a political ecology perspective elaborating on who are the involved key actors, their relations and what strategies are used. Political ecology is about recognizing the power that actors have at the moment of deciding what, how, and where to conserve nature. Based on interviews done during fieldtrips in 2018, 2019 and 2020 complemented by an analysis of political documents, the identified strategies the NGOs are using in this conflict, can be described as demonstration and upscaling. The aim of this paper is to draw attention on the politicization of nature, in particular Atewa forest reserve and its bauxite resources.

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The Established, the Outsiders and Scale Strategies: Studying Local Power Conflicts

Cited by 24 publications

References 16 publications

Everyone knew everyone: diversity, community memory and a new established–outsider figuration

Everyone knew everyone: diversity, community memory and a new established–outsider figuration

Everyday Politics and Collective Mobilization Against Foreigners in a South African Shack Settlement

Bauxite mining at Atewa Forest Reserve, Ghana: a political ecology of a conservation-exploitation conflict

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