Growing up in the ‘Ghetto’
Children's ambiguous attachment in racialised communities in Denmark
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12711027 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Asger Martiny-Bruun (0000-0002-5250-9664, University College Copenhagen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 829-843 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Children s Geographies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1473-3277 • E-ISSN: 1473-3285 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14733285.2024.2386248 |
| OpenAlex | W4401291059 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 33 |
This article examines the community attachments of children living in stigmatised non-profit housing estates in Denmark. Drawing on childhood studies’ emphasis on children's agency, the analysis explores how children shape their place attachments within urban landscapes. Methods include ethnographic fieldwork in two neighbourhoods, walk-along interviews and photo-elicitation. The findings reveal how architectural, material, and symbolic aspects of a neighbourhood may afford children's pluri-ethnic social relations and attachment practices to a local community, based on acts of care in everyday interactions. While these practices are common, the analysis also explores how the territorial stigma racialises children's social spaces and catalyses differentiations, both internally and beyond their neighbourhood. Thus, the study deepens our understanding of children's ambiguous perceptions of and reactions to growing up in stigmatised communities
Criminology · Sociology · Children's Rights and Participation · Early Childhood Education and Development · Gender Studies · Psychology · Social and Educational Sciences
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The Perforated Welfare Space
Forankringspraksisser i Vestjylland
The American Ghetto, Gangster, and Respect on the Streets of Copenhagen
Belonging
Governing urban diversity through myths of national sameness – a comparative analysis of Denmark and Sweden
‘My Journey to School …’
Navigating the neighbourhood
Children and the public realm
School, Youth Culture and Territorial Stigmatization in Swedish Metropolitan Districts
Constructions of locality and gender and their impact on the educational aspirations of working-class children
Advanced Marginality as a comparative research strategy in praxis
So, you're from Brixton
Parenting in the Courtyard
Children's everyday encounters and affective relations with place
Territorial Stigmatization in the Age of Advanced Marginality
Living With Stigma
A phenomenology of whiteness
Copenhagen's West End a 'Paradise Lost
The temporality of the landscape
Territorial Destigmatization in an Era of Policy Schizophrenia
Children's Places
Multiscalar Un-homing
Fraught parenting
They want us out
Spectral kinship
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |