It is well established that the stigmatisation of residents of socio-economically disadvantaged places by outsiders can have harmful consequences for those residents’ wellbeing and opportunities. However, relatively little research examines the effects of intra-neighbourhood stigmatisation on residents. We draw on Loïc Wacquant’s ‘advanced marginality’ thesis to explore this dynamic. We extend Wacquant’s concept of ‘territorial stigmatisation’ empirically with a social and spatial analysis of relational ties and stigma in a disadvantaged neighbourhood in Tasmania, Australia. This shifts the analytical focus from insider–outsider boundary-making to the ‘micro-territories’ of stigma production, which we argue are relationally as well as geographically constituted.

Item Type:	Refereed Article
Keywords:	disadvantage, place, social capital, social network analysis, stigmatisation
Research Division:	Human Society
Research Group:	Sociology
Research Field:	Urban sociology and community studies
Objective Division:	Law, Politics and Community Services
Objective Group:	Community services
Objective Field:	Social class and inequalities
UTAS Author:	Verdouw, J (Dr Julia Verdouw)
UTAS Author:	Flanagan, K (Dr Kathleen Flanagan)
ID Code:	131015
Year Published:	2019
Web of Science® Times Cited:	10
Deposited By:	Office of the School of Social Sciences
Deposited On:	2019-02-26
Last Modified:	2021-01-19
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