![]() ![]() ![]() Within these, we identify 16 different modalities of production of territorial stigmatisation. Based on an inductive analysis of 119 peer-reviewed articles we provide an overview of this fragmented field of research and to bring structure to the debates, we identify six distinct yet broad and partly overlapping ‘areas of research’ on the production of territorial stigmatisation. However, the debates remain fragmented, and most studies have focused more on confirming and expounding the impact of territorial stigmatisation than its production. Studies from across six continents confirm and contribute to the concept’s growing relevance in explaining the social and symbolic dimensions of advanced and urban marginality. The concept of territorial stigmatisation has garnered increasing attention over the past decade. In fact, this has become a legitimisation of the current radical policy measures of demolition, gentrification and re-privatisation of the stigmatised territories. This casts light on efforts to deal with the stickiness of territorial stigma implying that the Sisyphean character of these efforts are not unforeseen policy consequences of dealing with a wicked problem, but integral to the institutional logic. We identify four such generative institutional logics which, brought together, constitute a novel regime of territorial destigmatisation which in turn underpins the contemporary policy schizophrenia which simultaneously promotes territorial destigmatisation at the local level and the production of territorial stigmatisation at the national level. The many accounts of the project managers allow us to make explicit the implicit nonverbalised logics – doxa – that inform the fuzzy logic of practice in territorial destigmatisation work. Using the figure of the triangle, we outline an analytical approach for studying territorial destigmatisation connecting Territory, Destigmatisation and Institutions, and by building on an open-ended qualitative survey with 47 project managers from stigmatised housing estates in Denmark, we cast light on territorial destigmatisation work in practice. While territorial destigmatisation has long been central to urban policies, academic interest is only very recent. Curiously enough, we found no studies directly researching how social media relates to the production of territorial stigmatisation. These studies can be grouped into two subcategories: first, studies concerned with newspapers and the press, the representation of stigmatised territories in these, and the journalistic tools and techniques applied to describe these areas and second, a more heterogeneous group of studies concerned with different forms of mass media, such as the representation and discussion of stigmatised territories in television news, TV shows (Vale 1995 Arthurson, Darcy, and Rogers 2014), films (Purdy 2005), on the radio (Conway, Corcoran, and Cahill 2012), and the internet/search engines (Power, Neville, and Devereux 2013). Nonetheless, while there is a lengthy and wide recognition of the role of the media and the journalistic field in the production of territorial stigmatisation, it is only more recently that specialised studies have addressed the processes involved in this production. The article argues that media representations of social problems may not be authoritative and media agenda-setting is more provisional and open ended than is commonly assumed. An empirical analysis of two media spaces that represented this change process shows how the media tuned into the change agenda promoted by local residents, in the process widening its frame of reference and allowing for representations with a more positive valence. Beginning in the early 2000s and recently completed, a major regeneration project has seen the estate transformed with the potential finally to dislodge the negative stereotyping embedded in the estate’s past. A heroin problem developed in the estate in the 1980s and contributed to its negative media construction, such that by the end of the 1990s the estate was widely viewed as being in crisis. ![]() The estate enjoyed a relatively unremarkable history up until the 1970s. Fatima Mansions was built between 19 as part of a government policy to re-house the city’s poor. ![]() This article examines media coverage of one local authority housing estate in Dublin with a difficult past. ![]()
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