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Territorial Stigmatization and Territorial Destigmatization: A Cultural Sociology of Symbolic Strategy in the Gentrification of Parkdale (Toronto)

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Territorial stigmatization is one of the most powerful concepts for understanding how social, spatial and symbolic processes are intertwined in producing contemporary urban inequality. Through a detailed case study of Parkdale, a Toronto neighbourhood that has been profoundly shaped by its long association with poverty, single room occupancy housing and psychiatric survivors, this article works at the points of intersection between the rapidly expanding literature on territorial stigmatization and wider social scientific interest in gentrification†led displacement. Drawing on archival research, participant observation and interviews with residents, it demonstrates how territorial stigmatization, and a new allied concept, territorial destigmatization, operate in Parkdale. Territorial stigmatization and destigmatization work across three dimensions: legal, material and discursive. Using conceptual tools from cultural sociology to foreground symbolic elements of these three dimensions, two strategies of territorial destigmatization are delineated: one that operates in concert with gentrification†led displacement, and the other that works to symbolically reinscribe stigmatized persons and housing forms. To complement and sharpen territorial stigmatization research, recent findings from studies of stigma are integrated to show how psychiatric survivors and housing advocates in Parkdale use territorial destigmatization to offset gentrification†led displacement.

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  • Mervyn Horgan, 2018. "Territorial Stigmatization and Territorial Destigmatization: A Cultural Sociology of Symbolic Strategy in the Gentrification of Parkdale (Toronto)," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 42(3), pages 500-516, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:ijurrs:v:42:y:2018:i:3:p:500-516
    DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12645
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    1. Mervyn Horgan, 2020. "Housing Stigmatization: A General Theory," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(1), pages 8-19.
    2. Cheng Liu & Yu Deng & Weixuan Song & Qiyan Wu & Jian Gong, 2021. "Differentiation under capitalism: Genesis and consequences of the rent gap," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 53(7), pages 1770-1788, October.
    3. Solène Le Borgne, 2023. "RE‐SCALING TERRITORIAL STIGMATIZATION: The Construction and Negotiation of ‘Declining Medium‐Sized Cities’ as a Stigmatizing Imaginary in France," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 47(6), pages 975-994, November.
    4. Peer Smets & Margarethe Kusenbach, 2020. "New Research on Housing and Territorial Stigma: Introduction to the Thematic Issue," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(1), pages 1-7.
    5. Troels Schultz Larsen & Kristian Nagel Delica, 2021. "Territorial Destigmatization In An Era Of Policy Schizophrenia," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 45(3), pages 423-441, May.
    6. Margarethe Kusenbach, 2020. "“Trailer Trash” Stigma and Belonging in Florida Mobile Home Parks," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(1), pages 66-75.

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