"The Same But Not the Same": The Discursive Constitution of Large Housing Estates in Germany, France, and Poland

Glasze, Georg; Pütz, Robert; Germes, Mélina; Schirmel, Henning; Brailich, Adam

doi:10.2747/0272-3638.33.8.1192

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“…This finding pushes the argument for the formation of territorial stigmatization further by demonstrating how territorial stigma can be cultivated through active political campaigns that draw on patterns of racial and ethnic segregation, thus contributing to the growing literature on the origins of territorial stigma in bureaucratic structures (Larsen, ), media sources (Glasze et al ., ) and ethnic succession (Cohen, ). This article has sought to identify an important source of territorial stigma in the structural and relational conditions of social divides and state boundaries—which together allow the stigma to be cultivated in order to divert cost distribution questions and make Detroit independently responsible for its abandoned condition.…”

Section: Discussion: the Frustrated Regional Politics Of Stigmatizationmentioning

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“…Glasze et al . () finds that while public housing estates in Germany, France and Poland were all characterized as threatening in news reports, the threat was conceptualized differently in the three countries. Cohen () shows how the Israeli city of Bat Yam became coded as crowded, noisy, corrupt and dangerous once Mizrahis became the majority.…”

Section: Racialized Institutions and The Origins Of Territorial Stigmamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, Larsen (2014) shows how states may propagate territorial stigma through the unintended results of bureaucratic logics and structures, which results in privileging particular values over others. Glasze et al (2012) finds that while public housing estates in Germany, France and Poland were all characterized as threatening in news reports, the threat was conceptualized differently in the three countries. Cohen (2013) shows how the Israeli city of Bat Yam became coded as crowded, noisy, corrupt and dangerous once Mizrahis became the majority.…”

Section: Racialized Institutions and The Origins Of Territorial Stigmamentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Structural Origins of Territorial Stigma: Water and Racial Politics in Metropolitan Detroit, 1950s–2010s

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2016

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article develops the concept of territorial stigma by analyzing how it can be cultivated at the level of political institutions across administrative divides. I consider the case of Detroit's regional water department, which until 2016 was owned and operated by the city and served over 120 suburban regional municipalities. I start by examining the cooperative city–suburban water system expansion in the 1950s and then analyze the rise of Detroit's first black‐led administration in 1974, after which the water authority became a key regional institution that provided an opportunity for white suburban leaders to organize against the city. I find that suburban leaders advanced their immediate goal of mitigating rate hikes by declaring the city to be greedy and inept, instead of acknowledging structural conditions that increased operational costs. This had the effect of reproducing racialized stereotypes at the political level, which had enduring effects. The argument builds on the existing literature on territorial stigma by (1) identifying state institutions as sites for the propagation of stigma and (2) considering stigmatized places in relation to their non‐stigmatized neighbors. The analysis integrates material‐structural and cultural‐symbolic factors in order to understand the perpetuation of regional urban inequalities.

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The Structural Origins of Territorial Stigma: Water and Racial Politics in Metropolitan Detroit, 1950s–2010s

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2016

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“…Even in ostensibly stable situations, change is always possible (Glasze et al 2012;Laclau 1994;Laclau, Mouffe 1985;Weber 2016). In the Germany of the 1960s, for example, nuclear power plants were seen by many as pioneering, whereas today they are predominantly associated with risks and hazards (e.g.…”

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Conflicts around Germany’sEnergiewende: Discourse patterns of citizens’ initiatives

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Jenal

Roßmeier

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Especially since the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe (2011), Germany has expanded its renewably sourced energies. Nuclear power is to be phased out by 2022. What is central to federal policy is the expansion of wind-generated energy. Plans for new wind farms have, however, faced opposition. And the transportation of electricity from the windy north to the high-use south entails an expansion of the existing power grid, which also provokes conflict. The article scrutinises dominant patterns of discourse on these issues. Based on current discourse theory, the research sheds light on the argumentative power of citizens’ initiatives with respect to nature conservation, landscape, health and economics.

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“…Housing estates in formerly socialist countries are physically similar to those elsewhere in Europe (Glasze et al 2012), meaning that assumptions about contemporary urban problems and suitable measures in these districts are sometimes made without sufficient critical reflection. This chapter broadens the scholarly knowledge of the ongoing population shifts and experimental interventions taking place in modernist housing estates in European cities by presenting the case of Tallinn, the capital of a former Soviet republic.…”

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Population Shifts and Urban Policies in Housing Estates of Tallinn, Estonia

Leetmaa

Holvandus

Mägi

et al. 2018

Housing Estates in Europe

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Housing estates in the Tallinn urban region are interesting objects of research in many respects. First, as in other post-socialist European cities, the proportion of the population residing in socialist-era apartments is extraordinarily high here. Second, residential units in housing estates were originally state-built and run but are almost fully privatised today. Third, post-Soviet housing estates tend to be multi-ethnic, much like similar residential districts in many other European cities. This chapter reveals that Tallinn housing estates are experiencing gradual social decline: within the first two decades of post-socialism, a remarkable ageing of the population has taken place, the proportion of people with low socio-economic status has increased dramatically in some estates while others have succeeded in remaining relatively stable in this respect, and patterns of ethnic and socio-economic segregation have increasingly overlapped. Interestingly, this silent social decline is not acknowledged by contemporary urban actors. In the early transition years, institutional rearrangements were made (privatisation, new housing management and urban planning rules), but this was followed by a period of political neglect until the late 2000s. Although recent interventions (e.g. social housing projects, densification of housing estates by private developers, support for the renovation of panel buildings and rising community activism) have been more targeted, these policies remain rather chaotic generally. No vision exists for how the efforts of different actors and sectoral policies should stabilise housing estates in the longer run. There seems to be a race against time-although investments and efforts are being made to improve the residential quality of housing estates, this is not sufficient to counterbalance their ongoing stigmatisation and population changes.

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"The Same But Not the Same": The Discursive Constitution of Large Housing Estates in Germany, France, and Poland

Cited by 48 publications

References 15 publications

The Structural Origins of Territorial Stigma: Water and Racial Politics in Metropolitan Detroit, 1950s–2010s

The Structural Origins of Territorial Stigma: Water and Racial Politics in Metropolitan Detroit, 1950s–2010s

Conflicts around Germany’sEnergiewende: Discourse patterns of citizens’ initiatives

Population Shifts and Urban Policies in Housing Estates of Tallinn, Estonia

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