Refounded Neighbourhoods and Spatial Justice: The Inhabitants’ Attitudes Towards Urban Segregation

Cousin, Bruno

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“…Thus, the new boundaries of distinction come with an important presence of elites in central r and dynamic urban areas (Prieur & Savage, 2013) that were not the prerogative of the traditional bourgeoisies who had an exclusive relation to "highbrow" culture. The naturalization of poverty is also made possible by a specific relation to space (Cousin, 2017).…”

Section: Donor Plaques: a Relation To Spacementioning

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Leaving a Trace: Donor Plaques as Material Evidences of Generosity?

Monier

2022

Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research

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Contemporary philanthropy relies on a gift/counter-gift process: a person making a donation receives benefits for it, mostly financial (tax deductions) or symbolic (recognition). Donor recognition is an important part of philanthropy and comes in many forms. One of them is donor plaques—on walls, signs, or objects/buildings—associated with naming, i.e., the material traces of recognition that have the name of the donor on them. The analysis of donor plaques deepens our understanding of the way the act of giving leaves traces. What are these traces of philanthropy? How long do donor plaques stay on the walls of institutions? How are they negotiated? How do they change the urban landscape at a bigger scale? This chapter aims at understanding the specificity and the symbolic role of donor plaques as traces left voluntarily by philanthropic donors. Focusing on an understudied topic (philanthropic traces) and based on two qualitative research conducted in philanthropic settings, it questions the relationship elite donors have with time and space through the analysis of a concrete object (the plaque). It also examines the meaning of these traces (and the values they convey), as well as the power relations (and resistances) they create.

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Section: Donor Plaques: a Relation To Spacementioning

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Leaving a Trace: Donor Plaques as Material Evidences of Generosity?

Monier

2022

Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research

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“…Our data come from two major ethnographic studies: one conducted between 2010 and 2015 of Sweden’s wealthiest community, Djursholm, that is populated by the country’s business and financial elites (see Anonymous, 2017); the other conducted between 2016 and 2019 of three of Australia’s most prestigious and economically privileged suburbs, Toorak (Melbourne), Mosman (Sydney) and Cottesloe (Perth); see (Anonymous, 2019). It should be noted that the four areas examined are mainly suburban, residential areas of single-family detached houses, which to some extent set them apart from elite neighbourhoods in cities such as New York or Paris characterized by higher density (see Cousin, 2017; Martin, 2015).…”

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Elite Communities and Polarization in Neoliberal Society: Consecration in Australia’s and Sweden’s Wealthy Neighbourhoods

Holmqvist

Wiesel

2022

Critical Sociology

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‘Elite communities’ are the areas where the wealthy, and even ‘superrich’, live, socialize and raise their children as future economic and financial elites; they are the places where a few lead socially and economically privileged lives. Earlier studies have concentrated on the inner dynamics of these settings, focusing on the way residents are constructed and socialized as elites through their social, communicative and aesthetic abilities that are perceived as exemplary in contemporary neoliberal society. In this paper, we broaden the perspective, by exploring how these areas contribute to polarization, that is, how they generate distinctions based on money, morals and manners that are peculiar to neoliberalism’s idealization of ‘entrepreneurship’, ‘self-management’, ‘leadership’ and the pursuit of an ‘active lifestyle’. Our data come from two major ethnographic studies: one conducted between 2010 and 2015 of Sweden’s wealthiest community, Djursholm, that is populated by the country’s business and financial elites; the other conducted between 2016 and 2019 of three of Australia’s most prestigious and economically privileged suburbs, Toorak (Melbourne), Mosman (Sydney) and Cottesloe (Perth).

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Refounded Neighbourhoods and Spatial Justice: The Inhabitants’ Attitudes Towards Urban Segregation

Cited by 2 publications

References 32 publications

Leaving a Trace: Donor Plaques as Material Evidences of Generosity?

Leaving a Trace: Donor Plaques as Material Evidences of Generosity?

Elite Communities and Polarization in Neoliberal Society: Consecration in Australia’s and Sweden’s Wealthy Neighbourhoods

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