From ‘Hood’ to Good – Dealing with Stigmatizing Spatial Representations in Everyday Life

Werner, C. and Schwarze, T. (2022) From ‘Hood’ to Good – Dealing with Stigmatizing Spatial Representations in Everyday Life. In: Third International Symposium on Platial Information Science (PLATIAL’21), Enschede, the Netherlands, 15–17 Dec 2021, pp. 31-34. (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.5767182)

Abstract

Media reports on everyday life in US-American under-resourced and racialized neighbourhoods pre- dominantly cover one theme: violence and crime. The tragic occurrence of shootings, dead people, and gang crime are at the centre of news headlines. This singular perspective on such areas and their residents produces a stigma that affects people’s everyday lives and yet does not cover what it means to live in such an area. By using qualitative interviews with residents and representatives of community organizations, we spotlight the daily practices that illustrate the contested symbolic meaning of the ‘hood’ and the potential redevelopment discourses of the Chicago neighbourhood South Shore. The data provide insights into the heterogeneity of the social groups that live in the area and execute practices of social distinctions attached to spaces, as they become apparent with our examples of busy corners at commercial strips and the planned Obama Presidential Center.

• Item Type: Conference Proceedings
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Schwarze, Dr Tilman
• Authors: Werner, C., and Schwarze, T.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Sociology Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2022 The Authors.
• First Published: First published in Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Platial Information Science (PLATIAL’21), pp. 31–34
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons License