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‘I call it the dark side’: stigma, social capital and social networks in a disadvantaged neighbourhood

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posted on 2023-05-20, 01:11 authored by Julia VerdouwJulia Verdouw, Kathleen FlanaganKathleen Flanagan
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.

Funding

Henry Halloran Trust

History

Publication title

Urban Studies

Volume

56

Issue

16

Pagination

3375-3393

ISSN

0042-0980

Department/School

School of Social Sciences

Publisher

Carfax Publishing

Place of publication

Rankine Rd, Basingstoke, England, Hants, Rg24 8Pr

Rights statement

Copyright 2019 Urban Studies Journal Limited

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Social class and inequalities; Community services not elsewhere classified

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