Claims-Making from the Underside: Marginalization and Social Problems Analysis

Miller, Leslie J.

doi:10.4324/9781315080505-8

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“…The silencing of subordinate voices is a common way that institutional power operates. Miller (2003) points out that a favorite theme of Foucault’s was the power of dominant discourses not only to impose fundamental assumptions and categories on how we perceive reality but also to ward off challenges to them while concealing exclusionary practices. Foucault (1981) claimed that silence is never outside of discourse, and as argued by Ward and Winstanley (2003), “discourses authorize who can speak, what can be spoken about, how it is spoken about and what should be taken seriously; whilst simultaneously marginalizing and disqualifying other voices whose speech remains forbidden or derided” (p. 133).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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“You Need to Be Sorted Out With a Knife”: The Attempted Online Silencing of Women and People of Muslim Faith Within Academia

Barlow

Awan

2016

Social Media + Society

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Academics are increasingly expected to use social media to disseminate their work and knowledge to public audiences. Although this has various advantages, particularly for alternative forms of dissemination, the web can also be an unsafe space for typically oppressed or subordinated groups. This article presents two auto-ethnographic accounts of the abuse and hate academics researching oppressed groups, namely, women and people of Muslim faith, experienced online. In doing so, this article falls into four parts. The first section provides an overview of existing literature, particularly focusing on work which explores the violence and abuse of women and people of Muslim faith online. The second section considers the autoethnographic methodological approach adopted in this article. The third section provides the auto-ethnographic accounts of the author's experiences of hate and abuse online. The final section locates these experiences within broader theoretical concepts, such as silencing, and considers possible implications of such online hate in both an academic context and beyond.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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“You Need to Be Sorted Out With a Knife”: The Attempted Online Silencing of Women and People of Muslim Faith Within Academia

Barlow

Awan

2016

Social Media + Society

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“…Rather than being exceptions to the rule, however, such silencing of subordinate voices is a common way in which institutional power operates. As Leslie J. Miller (2003) points out, a favorite theme of Foucault's was the power of dominant discourses not only to impose fundamental assumptions and categories on how we perceive reality, but also to ward off challenges to them while concealing their exclusionary practices.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As Leslie J. Miller (2003) points out, a favorite theme of Foucault's was the power of dominant discourses not only to impose fundamental assumptions and categories on how we perceive reality, but also to ward off challenges to them while concealing their exclusionary practices.…”

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Silencing Women's Voices: Nuisance Property Laws and Battered Women

Arnold¹,

Slusser²

2015

Law soc. inq.

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There is little documentation about how nuisance property laws, which fine people for excessive 911 calls, affect victims of domestic violence. In St. Louis, we found that police and prosecutors believe that the law benefits victims of domestic violence by providing them with additional services. By contrast, advocates for domestic violence victims believe that the law undermines battered women's access to housing and discourages them from calling 911. Using qualitative data, we analyze how the organizational structures and dynamics within which each group works give rise to different stocks of working knowledge. We conclude that law enforcement officials are unaware of these harms because women's voices and experiences are marginalized during the enforcement process. This research reveals mechanisms through which law enforcement policies reinforce gender inequality, and illustrates some ways in which gender relations and power come into play in what, on their surface, appear to be gender-neutral laws.

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“…The concepts of marginalization and marginalized populations are considered to be fundamental to the discussion and analysis of urban social problems (Miller 1993). Marginalization leads to socioeconomic, legal, cultural, and/or spatial exclusion as marginalized populations 3 do not have equal access to tangible and intangible resources (re)distributed throughout society (Mareš 2000;Winchester and White 1988).…”

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Urban Social Problems and Marginalized Populations in Postsocialist Transition Societies

Temelová

Jíchová

Pospíšilová

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Urban Affairs Review

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Despite growing scholarly interest in residential segregation in Central and Eastern Europe, thus far insufficient attention has been paid to understanding marginalization in these postsocialist transition societies through the perceptions of stakeholders. The present article reports the findings of a qualitative study of the perceptions of urban social problems in the city center of Prague, Czechia. Semistructured interviews with the key actors involved in the city’s social development are used to understand what social phenomena they perceive as problematic, how they localize them within the urban space, and how their perceptions translate into policy attitudes. We find that stakeholders emphasize the issues of homelessness, drug addiction, and the appropriate delivery of social services in their narratives. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the repressive nature of policy interventions partly results from a lack of experience of overcoming such societal issues and partly results from weak coordination at the city level.

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Claims-Making from the Underside: Marginalization and Social Problems Analysis

Cited by 12 publications

References 1 publication

“You Need to Be Sorted Out With a Knife”: The Attempted Online Silencing of Women and People of Muslim Faith Within Academia

“You Need to Be Sorted Out With a Knife”: The Attempted Online Silencing of Women and People of Muslim Faith Within Academia

Silencing Women's Voices: Nuisance Property Laws and Battered Women

Urban Social Problems and Marginalized Populations in Postsocialist Transition Societies

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