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The Council Estate and “Being Placed”

Everyday Resistances to the Stigmatization of Community

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ID12633895
AuthorsSarah Leaney (0000-0002-2364-3469, University of Brighton, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume37
Issue4
Pages383-399
Publication date2019-06-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHousing Theory and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1403-6096 • E-ISSN: 1651-2278
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14036096.2019.1624387
OpenAlexW2954926528
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited67

Building upon contemporary analyses of the interconnections between stigmatized places and identity formation, this paper explores processes of place-based identity formation on a British council estate. Connecting post-structural theorisations of identity and space, the paper explores the tensions between structure and agency implicit within theorisations of place-based identity as a community. Conceptualising the entanglement of structure and agency in place making as “being placed”, this paper offers an analysis of contradictions inherent in a structurally located agency. Founded upon ethnographic research of the material and cultural conditions of “being placed” on The Estate, the paper explores everyday resistances to place-based identity and the stigmatization of community

Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Civil engineering · Epistemology · Estate · Ethnography · Everyday life · Housing estate · Identity (music · Identity formation · Political science · Real estate · Self-concept · Social science · Sociology · Structure and agency · Anthropology · Engineering · Gender Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Philosophy · Urban Planning and Governance

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Citations per year2,6
Citation span2021 - 2026 (6)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 13

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