Territorial Stigmatization and Territorial Destigmatization: A Cultural Sociology of Symbolic Strategy in the Gentrification of Parkdale (Toronto)

Horgan, Mervyn

doi:10.1111/1468-2427.12645

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“…Focusing on the Parkdale-High Park area of west Toronto, the study extends existing scholarship on gentrification in the area (i.e. Epstein, 2018;Horgan, 2018;Keatinge and Martin, 2015;Kern, 2010;Masuda et al, 2012;Mazer and Rankin, 2011;Slater, 2004;Teelucksingh, 2009;Whitzman and Slater, 2006). This literature has focused on the race and class-based dynamics through which a single-family ownership model of housing has been privileged, both by market forces as well as by the active intervention of municipal governments (Slater, 2004;Whitzman, 2009).…”

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“…In July of 2016, a local herbalist and naturopathic doctor based in the Roncesvalles Avenue shopping district of north Parkdale advertised a 'Plant ID walk through High Park' as follows: Targeted towards a new influx of 'hip', 'boutique' natural health consumers (Parish, 2017(Parish, , 2019 in one of Toronto's most diverse and income polarized neighbourhoods (Epstein, 2018;Horgan, 2018), the event promised to connect participants to the medicinal and wellness value of local plants at their doorsteps. Clearly the idea that such medical treasures could be found surrounding us right here in the city was intended to inspire and impress enough that the curious and the health conscious would consider parting with (up to) 20 dollars.…”

Section: High Park: Conservation and Commodification In The 21st Centurymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Re-wilding Parkdale? Environmental gentrification, settler colonialism, and the reconfiguration of nature in 21st century Toronto

Parish

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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In 21st century Toronto, the labour of caring for urban trees is entangled with both gentrification processes and the social reproduction of settler colonial space. This paper contributes to the study of environmental gentrification through a study of the social reproduction of settler colonial relations to land in the Parkdale–High Park area of Toronto. Specifically, I take up the hyper-visibility of some forms of social reproduction, in order to shed light on how the mundane, quotidian ‘non-work’ of living in/with/for capitalism becomes a site of privilege and a luxury pursuit for more affluent residents. The paper highlights the processes and practices whereby settler colonial urban subjects seek out ‘nature’ as a temporary outside where they can escape from widely accepted downsides of capitalist urbanism, including a diverse array of social and physical ills, from stress, to obesity, to ecological degradation. The paper asks: whose social reproduction does the presence of urban trees serve? In the context of 21st century financialized gentrification, cities are increasingly normalized as spaces of wealth and luxury. It is therefore crucial to pay attention to the raced, gendered, and colonial micro-politics through which urban ecologies are transformed in the service of an anti-democratic vision of the city as a space of leisure and luxury.

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Section: High Park: Conservation and Commodification In The 21st Centurymentioning

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Re-wilding Parkdale? Environmental gentrification, settler colonialism, and the reconfiguration of nature in 21st century Toronto

Parish

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…While housing has a prominent place in the literature dealing with territorial stigma, the focus is placed on those living in public or social housing developments that are owned and managed by municipal, state, or national government entities (e.g., Watt & Smets, 2017). However, there are other forms of housing, as well as other forms of tenure, that are also stigmatized and will also need consideration: for instance, barrio, favela or "slum" dwellings (Bredenoord, van Lindert, & Smets, 2014;Ferguson & Smets, 2010), manufactures housing and mobile homes (Kusenbach, 2009), Single Room Occupancy (SRO) residences (Horgan, 2018), and, in some contexts, even privately rented homes and apartments (Vassenden & Lie, 2013).…”

Section: Housing and Territorial Stigmamentioning

confidence: 99%

New Research on Housing and Territorial Stigma: Introduction to the Thematic Issue

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Kusenbach

2020

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This introduction to the thematic issue on housing and territorial stigma provides concise overviews of the concepts of stigma, housing stigma, and territorial (or neighborhood) stigma, while tracing back current research on these topics to the pioneering work of Erving Goffman and Loic Wacquant. In doing this, we place particular attention on social responses to, and coping strategies with, stigma, especially various forms of stigma resistance. Finally, in brief summaries of all articles in the thematic issue, we emphasize their shared themes and concerns.

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“…While not figuring prominently within Wacquant’s initial work, subsequent analyses have drawn attention to contestation and resistance through counter‐discourses and spatial interventions (e.g. Cuny ; Garbin and Millington ; Horgan ; Kirkness ; Kirkness and Tije‐Dra ; Maestri ; Quieros and Pereira ; Rogers et al ). Multiple accounts have described how resistance and contestation were fostered by residents’ shared sense of ownership, belonging, and attachment to place.…”

Section: Poverty (De)stigmatisation and (Social) Mediamentioning

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#WeAreBeneficiaries: Contesting Poverty Stigma Through Social Media

2020

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Showcasing stories of welfare beneficiaries in their own words, a recent Aotearoa (New Zealand)-based campaign called "We Are Beneficiaries" used social media to create a space of contestation to the widespread stigmatisation of poverty. While existing literature strongly emphasises the role played by traditional media in constructing and reinforcing stigma, and has more recently begun to explore resistance and contestation, relatively few accounts address efforts, like the We Are Beneficiaries campaign, that seek to destigmatise poverty stigma via social media. Accordingly, this paper argues that social media can serve as a counterpublic space for the destigmatisation of poverty. By discussing how the We Are Beneficiaries campaign refuted stigmatising narratives, critiqued institutions and sought to build solidarity among and with welfare beneficiaries, the paper draws attention to the potential of social media in the development of counterdiscourses as well as new political identities and claims-making.

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Territorial Stigmatization and Territorial Destigmatization: A Cultural Sociology of Symbolic Strategy in the Gentrification of Parkdale (Toronto)

Cited by 51 publications

References 57 publications

Re-wilding Parkdale? Environmental gentrification, settler colonialism, and the reconfiguration of nature in 21st century Toronto

Re-wilding Parkdale? Environmental gentrification, settler colonialism, and the reconfiguration of nature in 21st century Toronto

New Research on Housing and Territorial Stigma: Introduction to the Thematic Issue

#WeAreBeneficiaries: Contesting Poverty Stigma Through Social Media

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