Toxic Toxteth
Understanding press stigmatization of Toxteth during the 1981 uprising
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7477176 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alice Butler‐warke (0000-0002-7205-9832, School of Applied Social Studies, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK; School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 541-556 |
| Publication date | 2019-02-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-8849 • E-ISSN: 1741-3001 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1464884918822666 |
| OpenAlex | W2906176921 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 23 |
This article investigates how the press stigmatized Toxteth during, and immediately following, the disturbances in 1981. It builds upon a body of literature on territorial stigmatization where there is a gap in understanding surrounding the production and formation of stigma. Drawing on the acceptance in literature that the media is a key contributor to territorial stigma, I delve further to understand some of the techniques that the media uses to stigmatize place. I engage in a combined quantitative and qualitative analysis of 496 newspaper articles from five British newspapers to examine how the press reports on Toxteth, and who constructs Toxteth’s identity. I show that the name of ‘Toxteth’ was largely defined by the media and that the residents of Toxteth were denied a voice in the press coverage in 1981 with fewer than 10 per cent of all articles quoting a resident. I refer to this process as ‘stranger-making’, and it underscores the way that the media denied residents an ability to construct their own identity and the identity of their area. While stranger-making involves obfuscating the unique contours of Toxteth and silencing voices, the press simultaneously impose aspects of identity from a position of power through the techniques of naming, negativity, and oppositionality
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| Unique citing works | 20 |
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| Citations per year | 3,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |