Living with hate relationships

Familiar encounters, enduring racisms and geographies of entrapment

Bibliographic Data

ID4475489
AuthorsJohn Clayton (0000-0003-3898-1185, Northumbria University, corresponding author), Catherine Donovan (0000-0002-3997-1571, Durham University), Stephen J Macdonald (0000-0003-4409-9535, Durham University)
Year2022
Volume40
Issue1
Pages60-79
Publication date2022-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/02637758211049808
OpenAlexW3203998242
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited70

This paper utilises the concept of 'hate relationships' in conversation with the literature on geographies of encounter to explore experiences of racism for those entrapped by racist encounters with those who are familiar. In so doing, we attend to the uneven and harmful risks involved in some forms of everyday urban encounter. We draw upon case notes collated by a hate advocacy service in North East England, UK, to illustrate the cumulative damaging force of enduring hate relationships. By drawing parallels with work on domestic violence, we suggest hate relationships evident in our data exhibit distinct temporalities of routinisation, whereby harmful 'low level' violence, often under the radar of the criminal justice system, gains force through repeated neighbourhood-based encounters. In so doing, we also highlight both the situated and relational spatialities at work; localised encounters marked by familiarity, racialised territoriality and experiences of fear and immobility, but also relations of entrenched disadvantage and institutional failures that sustain harm. Concerted acts of resistance look to confront and/or escape these relationships, but as forms of resolution, where additional burdens are placed on victim/survivors, these are constrained by the same violent conditions through which such relationships are allowed to take shape

Criminology · Harm · Parallels · Political science · Situated · Sociology · Temporalities · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology

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