Reconsidering neighbourhood communality through the lens of intersectionality: resident and authority perspectives

The Narrative Cores of Neighbourhood Reputation as Revealed by Temporal Discourses

“…Narratives of known incidents, people, buildings, and landmarks are markers and signs constituting a shared meaning of local identities as well as reputation (Scollon & Scollon 2003). Regarding neighbourhoods, narratives can be defined, according to Junnilainen (2020) and Blokland (2009), as historically informed, collective place-making processes that affect the definition of a community through public discourses (Pinkster et al 2020;Niskavaara et al 2023;Alvarez & Ruiz-Tagle 2024).…”

“…Stance also concerns power and racist stories connected to neighbourhoods. The narrative core of territory challenges the idea of community itself: a community does not necessarily have unambiguous values in a location or site shared by residents but can be a nexus for many kinds of identities, activities, and stories (Niskavaara et al 2023). These five narrative cores (Table 1) can contain features from different temporal discourses simultaneously.…”