The concept of territorial stigma, as developed in large part by the urban sociologist Loïc 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 stigmatisation’s 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.
"1. Introduction 2.The Stigmatization of Las Vegas and its Inhabitants: The Other Side of the Coin 3. Imaginary Politics of the Branded City: Right-wing Terrorism as a Mediated Object of Stigmatization 4. The Stigmatisation of the Roma in Italy and France: Extensive Territorial Stigma and Ways of Coping With It 5. Redlining or Renewal? The Space-based Construction of Decay and its Contestation through Local Agency Brixton, Johannesburg 6. The ‘Not So Good’, the ‘Bad’ and the ‘Ugly’: Scripting the ‘Badlands’ of Housing Market Renewal 7. Opening the Reputational Rent Gap 8. Voices from the Quartiers Populaires: Belonging to Stigmatised French Urban Neighbourhoods 9. ""This is my ‘Wo’"": Making Home in Shanghai’s Lower Quarter 10. From Social Hell to Heaven? The Intermingling Processes of Territorial Stigmatization, Agency from Below and Gentrification in the Varjão, Brazil 11. Researching Territorial Stigma with Social Housing Tenants: Tenant-led Digital Media Production about People and Place 12. You Have Got to Represent your Ends"": Youth territoriality in London 13. Call it by its Name! Territory-ism and Territorial Stigmatisation as a Dynamic Model: The case of Old Naledi 14. Territorial Stigmatisation, Gentrification and Class Struggle: An interview with Tom Slater 15. Conclusion: Tainted Urban Spaces at the Intersection of Urban Planning, Politics of Identity and Urban Capitalism"
Paul Kirkness is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Andreas Tijé-Dra is a Human Geographer at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
