Paul Kirkness - Negative Neighbourhood Reputation and Place Attachment: The Production and Contestation of Territorial Stigma

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Negative Neighbourhood Reputation and Place Attachment

The concept of territorial stigma, as developed in large part by the urban sociologist Loc Wacquant, contends that certain groups of people are devalued, discredited and tainted by the reputation of the place where they reside.

This book argues that this theory is more relevant and comprehensive than others that have been used to frame and understand ostracised neighbourhoods and their populations (for example, segregation and the racialisation of place) and allows for an inclusive interpretation of the many spatial facets of marginalisation processes. Advancing conceptual understanding of how territorial stigmatisation and its components unfold materially as well as symbolically, this book presents a wide range of case studies from the Global South and Global North, including an examination of recent policy measures that have been applied to deal with the consequences of territorial stigmatisation. It introduces readers to territorial stigmatisations strategic deployment but also illustrates, in a number of regional contexts, the attachments that residents at times develop for the stigmatised places in which they live and the potential counter-forces that are developed against territorial stigmatisation by a variety of different groups.

Paul Kirkness is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Erlangen-Nrnberg, Germany.

Andreas Tij-Dra is a Human Geographer at the University of Erlangen-Nrnberg, Germany.

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Negative Neighbourhood Reputation and Place Attachment
The Production and Contestation of Territorial Stigma
Edited by Paul Kirkness and Andreas Tij-Dra

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Negative Neighbourhood
Reputation and Place
Attachment

The Production and Contestation
of Territorial Stigma

Edited by
Paul Kirkness and Andreas Tij-Dra

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Adefemi Adekunle is a researcher whose focus is based around scrutinising young people on their own terms. He is Lecturer at Newman University in the Working with Children and Young People team in Birmingham. As a PhD student at UCL, he worked at the Runnymede Trust, researching the intersection of race, space, youth and identity. His present research interests are based around his work and experiences as a detached youth worker.

Kathy Arthurson is Director of Neighborhoods, Housing and Health at Flinders Research Unit, Flinders University of South Australia. Her past experiences as a senior policy analyst in a range of positions including public health, housing and urban policy are reflected in the nature of her research, which is applied research grounded in broader concepts concerning social inclusion, inequality, and social justice. She is currently completing an Australian Research Council funded Future Fellowship exploring the links between urban planning policy and health.

Everaldo Batista da Costa is Professor at the University of Braslia (Brazil) and holds a PhD in Geography (University of So Paulo, Brazil). He is currently doing postdoctoral research at the University of So Paulo and the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is particularly interested in urban geography and explores urbanisation and patrimonialisation processes in Latin American cities.

Lee Crookes is a University Teacher in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield. Lees PhD conceptualised the implementation of the British Labour governments Housing Market Renewal programme as a form of state-led gentrification by bulldozer and, focusing on three urban areas in the north of England, his research examined the impacts of the programme on those households whose homes were targeted for demolition. Having witnessed the harm that planning can do to people and places, Lee has been working on a collaborative research project with the Town and Country Planning Association that seeks to reconnect planning to the lives of ordinary people through the reinvention of the ideas and practice of social town planning. Working closely with marginalised communities, Lee is also committed to engaged scholarship and community-led research.

Michael Darcy is Associate Professor in Social Sciences and a member of the Urban Research Program at Western Sydney University. His research focuses on housing and social justice with a particular emphasis on deeply engaged and activist methodologies.