Spaces of Social Exclusion

Gough, Jamie; Eisenschitz, Aram; McCulloch, Andrew

doi:10.4324/9780203496121

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“…Similarly, Gough et al . () describe how ‘the poor’, in the absence of class solidarity, sink into self‐blaming explanations of poverty. For our informants, individualized heavily ideological accounts of poverty were certainly to the fore, as we have shown, and class solidarity and social structural explanation very rare (see Savage et al ., , for similar findings).…”

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Poverty Talk: How People Experiencing Poverty Deny Their Poverty and Why They Blame ‘The Poor’

Shildrick

MacDonald

2013

The Sociological Review

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Drawing on life history interviews with sixty men and women in north‐east England who were caught up in ‘the low‐pay, no‐pay cycle’, this article describes how people living in poverty talk about poverty – in respect of themselves and others. Paradoxically, interviewees subscribed to a powerful set of ideas that denied poverty and morally condemned ‘the poor’. These findings are theorized in four ways: first, informants deployed close points of comparison that diminished a sense of relative poverty and deprivation; second, dissociation from ‘the poor’ reflects long‐running stigma and shame but is given extra force by current forms of ‘scroungerphobia’; third, discourses of the ‘undeserving poor’ articulate with a more general contemporary prejudice against the working class, which fuels the impetus to dissociate from ‘the poor’ (and to disidentify with the working class); and fourth, the hegemonic orthodoxy that blames ‘the poor’ for their poverty can more easily dominate in contexts where more solidaristic forms of working‐class life are in decline.

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Section: Discussion: Explaining ‘Poverty Talk’mentioning

confidence: 99%

Poverty Talk: How People Experiencing Poverty Deny Their Poverty and Why They Blame ‘The Poor’

Shildrick

MacDonald

2013

The Sociological Review

224

212

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“…Indeed, targeting has been justified on the basis that the 'poor' are spatially concentrated, implying that area-focussed interventions can be effective in reaching such individuals (Noble et al 2006). However, this has led to the issue being raised that this creates the stigmatization by employers and 'gatekeepers' alike of areas that are being targeted (Gough et al 2006). In addition, it has also been recognized that substantial proportions of the poor do not live in poor areas (ibid.)…”

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Methods for the Spatial Targeting of Urban Policy in the UK: A Comparative Analysis

Batey

Brown

Pemberton

2008

Appl. Spatial Analysis

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Widespread use is made of spatial targeting methods to determine the location of area-based policy initiatives within British cities. The aim of this paper is to gain a fuller understanding of the performance of such methods. A systematic comparison is made of the Government's Index of Multiple Deprivation, a composite measure that draws together government statistics; and census-based geodemographic systems which offer an alternative form of targeting. The performance of these different targeting systems is assessed in isolating concentrations of households experiencing multiple deprivation. A hybrid targeting method is developed, capitalising on the strengths of the two approaches. This appears to offer additional benefits in terms of its "targeting power".

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“…These complaints can easily be perceived as the ramblings of vendors finding it difficult to adjust to the new location. But such comments do underscore a new sense of marginalization and exclusion on the part of the bazaaris now articulated through spatiality (Gough et al ., 2006). The fact that the rules of the game are constantly changing and there is constant uncertainty and anxiety about the future (will they ever get a decent stall, will the Chamber‐ISPARK contract be renewed next year, will they be moved again or will they be closed down altogether, what if the customers never come back?)…”

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Rendering Istanbul's Periodic Bazaars Invisible: Reflections on Urban Transformation and Contested Space

Öz

Eder

2012

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This is a study of Istanbul's periodic bazaars and an attempt to place them in the context of contestation over urban space, urban poverty and informality. The periodic bazaars in the city are either disappearing or being moved to the outskirts. These trends reflect and reproduce spatial unevenness in the city, manifesting new forms of social exclusion and polarization. The city's increasingly commodified urban space has become an arena of social and economic contestation. We address these questions by focusing on the story of the relocation of one of Istanbul's most popular periodic bazaars, the Tuesday bazaar in Kadıköy. Our analysis reveals that the relocation and reorganization of bazaars in Istanbul in the 2000s have largely been driven by rising real-estate prices in the city: land has simply become too precious a commodity to be left to the bazaaris. Furthermore, in the context of a pervasive neoliberal discourse on urban renewal and modernization that promotes the notion of a hygienic city, the bazaaris, it seems, have become the new undesirables of the urban landscape, leaving them under double siege from the commodification of public land and from spatially defined social exclusion.From the emergence of upscale shopping centres to luxury office and residential developments, from the beginnings of gentrification of the old neighbourhoods to packaged tourist sites, Istanbul has been undergoing major transformations, particularly since the mid-1980s (Keyder, 2005a. It is against this background, which in fact parallels the kind of transformations under way in some other globalizing cities (Sassen, 1991), that this study sets out to map and discuss the changes witnessed in Istanbul's periodic bazaars, which have consisted of either downsizing them or removing them from the city centre. This is an attempt to uncover the underlying dynamics at work, not only with regard to contested urban space but also to urban poverty and informality. 1 Though similar in many ways to events elsewhere, the relocation and resizing of Istanbul's periodic bazaars involves a unique combination of commodification and resistance, and helps underscore the contextual and contingent nature of neoliberalism on the ground.We are indebted to Istanbul's bazaaris and their representatives for their time and for their engagement with our study. Our work benefited from the insightful criticisms of Professor Caglar Keyder as well as the comments of the three IJURR reviewers. We would also like to thank Yeliz Günel for helping us with maps and figures. Finally, Özlem Öz would like to thank the Turkish Academy of Sciences for its financial support, and Mine Eder thanks the Council for Middle East Studies at Yale University. 1 Please note that by periodic bazaars we refer to open-air markets set up on specific days of the week in specific neighbourhoods. Unlike their counterparts in Eastern Europe or the famous Tehran bazaars, Turkish bazaaris move from one neighbourhood to another throughout the week.

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Spaces of Social Exclusion

Cited by 34 publications

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Poverty Talk: How People Experiencing Poverty Deny Their Poverty and Why They Blame ‘The Poor’

Poverty Talk: How People Experiencing Poverty Deny Their Poverty and Why They Blame ‘The Poor’

Methods for the Spatial Targeting of Urban Policy in the UK: A Comparative Analysis

Rendering Istanbul's Periodic Bazaars Invisible: Reflections on Urban Transformation and Contested Space

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