Negative Neighbourhood Reputation and Place Attachment: The Production and Contestation of Territorial Stigma [Paperback]

The concept of territorial stigma, as developed in large part by the urban sociologist Lo?c 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.

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 Frenchl#&