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Notorious Places: Image, Reputation, Stigma. The Role of Newspapers in Area Reputations for Social Housing Estates

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  • Ade Kearns
  • Oliver Kearns
  • Louise Lawson

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This paper reviews work in several disciplines to distinguish between image, reputation and stigma. It also shows that there has been little research on the process by which area reputations are established and sustained through transmission processes. This paper reports on research into the portrayal of two social housing estates in the printed media over an extended period of time (14 years). It was found that negative and mixed coverage of the estates dominated, with the amount of positive coverage being very small. By examining the way in which dominant themes were used by newspapers in respect of each estate, questions are raised about the mode of operation of the press and the communities' collective right to challenge this. By identifying the way regeneration stories are covered and the nature of the content of positive stories, lessons are drawn for programmes of area transformation. The need for social regeneration activities is identified as an important ingredient for changing deprived-area reputations.

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  • Ade Kearns & Oliver Kearns & Louise Lawson, 2013. "Notorious Places: Image, Reputation, Stigma. The Role of Newspapers in Area Reputations for Social Housing Estates," Housing Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(4), pages 579-598, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:chosxx:v:28:y:2013:i:4:p:579-598
    DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.759546
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    1. Pekka Tuominen, 2020. "Historical and Spatial Layers of Cultural Intimacy: Urban Transformation of a Stigmatised Suburban Estate on the Periphery of Helsinki," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 8(1), pages 34-43.
    2. Porter, Libby & Davies, Liam & Ruming, Kristian & Kelly, David & Rogers, Dallas & Flanagan, Kathleen, 2023. "Understanding the drivers and outcomes of public housing tenant relocation," SocArXiv k6ht3, Center for Open Science.
    3. Alistair Sisson, 2021. "DENIGRATING BY NUMBERS: Quantification, Statistics and Territorial Stigma," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 45(3), pages 407-422, May.
    4. Lynda Cheshire & Gina Zappia, 2016. "Destination dumping ground: The convergence of ‘unwanted’ populations in disadvantaged city areas," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 53(10), pages 2081-2098, August.
    5. Andersson, Henrik & Blind, Ina & Brunåker, Fabian & Dahlberg, Matz & Fredriksson, Greta & Granath, Jakob & Liang, Che-Yuan, 2023. "What's in a Label? On Neighbourhood Labelling, Stigma and Housing Prices," SocArXiv xu759, Center for Open Science.
    6. Ade Kearns & Elise Whitley & Matt Egan & Catherine Tabbner & Carol Tannahill, 2017. "Healthy Migrants in an Unhealthy City? The Effects of Time on the Health of Migrants Living in Deprived Areas of Glasgow," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Springer, vol. 18(3), pages 675-698, August.
    7. Venla Bernelius & Heidi Huilla & Isabel Ramos Lobato, 2021. "‘Notorious Schools’ in ‘Notorious Places’? Exploring the Connectedness of Urban and Educational Segregation," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 9(2), pages 154-165.
    8. James Pattison, 2022. "‘The whole of Shirebrook got put on an ASBO’: The co-production of territorial stigma in a former colliery town," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 54(1), pages 105-121, February.

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