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

Julia Verdouw and Kathleen Flanagan
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Julia Verdouw: University of Tasmania, Australia
Kathleen Flanagan: University of Tasmania, Australia

Urban Studies, 2019, vol. 56, issue 16, 3375-3393

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: disadvantage; place; social capital; social network analysis; stigmatisation; 弱势; 地方; 社会资本; 社会网络分æž; 污å 化 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098018817226

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