The Council Estate and "Being Placed": Everyday Resistances to the Stigmatization of Community. Issue 4 (7th August 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Leaney, Sarah
• Is Part Of: Housing, theory and society. Volume 37:Issue 4(2020)
• Page Start: 383
• Page End: 399
• Publication Date: 2020-08-07
• Subjects: Class -- community -- council estate -- identity -- place -- stigma; Housing -- Periodicals; City planning -- Periodicals; Housing -- Economic aspects -- Periodicals; Housing policy -- Periodicals; 363.51
• DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2019.1624387
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1403-6096

Abstract

ABSTRACT: 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.