Doing/Undoing Stigma

The Moral Enterprise of Territorial Stigma

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2365733
AutoresThaddeus Müller (0000-0001-5593-6605, Lancaster University Law School, Lancashire, UK, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume53
Fascículo2
Páginas212-247
Data de publicação2024-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/08912416241229690
OpenAlexW4391647222
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas49

In this article I focus on stigma, and more specifically on territorial stigma in a Dutch suburb built in the 1970s. This publication is based on ethnographic fieldwork that lasted two and half years and which took place at the end of the 1980s. The data is reanalyzed in the light of recent developments in studies on stigma and territorial stigma, specifically how this is countered. I will use the conceptual pair-doing stigma and undoing stigma-to unpack stigma as a complex and dynamic process in which a diverse range of actors, such as inhabitants, civil servants and youth, are involved. The aim of this article is twofold: to describe and analyze the social construction of territorial stigma (doing stigma) of the neighborhood over a period of ten years and whether and how this stigma is countered (undoing stigma). This article highlights the agency of those targeted by stigma by paying attention to local narratives and using a multi-perspective ethnographic lens. The narratives show that stigma did not gain a master status because (1) the stigma producers were marginal in the social world of the targeted inhabitants and (2) it did not align with structural stigma (as in e.g., housing, health care, income, and education

Ethnography · Narrative · Psychiatry · Sociology · Stigma (botany · Undoing · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Studies · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies