Re-encoding the Spectacle

Urban Fatefulness and Mediated Stigmatisation in the 'City of Tomorrow

Bibliographic Data

ID10861840
AuthorsA Jansson (0000-0002-6121-645X, Malmö University, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume42
Issue10
Pages1671-1691
Publication date2005-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0042-0980 • E-ISSN: 1360-063X
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1080/00420980500231555
OpenAlexW1507965372
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited21

This article presents an empirical study of the public re-encoding processes occurring after the spectacular BoOl Housing Fair, the City of Tomorrow, hosted in Malmo, Sweden, in 2001. The fair initiated the reconstruction of a former shipyard and harbour area, creating a new post-industrial district. Due to economic and political scandals, however, the image of the new neighbourhood was seriously wounded. The fair was turned into a symbol of the 'new economy', which led to a media-driven stigmatisation of both the district and its early settlers. Taking Erving Goffman's concept of fatefulness as point of departure, the analysis stresses the symbolic and social vulnerability involved in the transformation of urban landscapes. It is argued that this vulnerability increases as an effect of informationalisation

Computer security · Neighbourhood (mathematics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Spectacle · Symbol (formal · Vulnerability (computing · Graphic Design and Typography · Law · Public Spaces through Art · Visual Culture and Art Theory

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