Shaking Up the City critically examines many of the concepts and categories within
mainstream urban studies that serve dubious policy agendas. Through a combination of …

This theme issue of Environment and Planning A builds on the analytic framework
elaborated by Wacquant in Urban Outcasts (Polity Press, 2008) and on the activities of the …

In this paper I recapitulate the origins, structure, and purpose of Neil Smith's rent gap theory,
and assess the frequently discussed but rarely dissected empirical studies of rent gaps, in …

This article explores the history and traces the realisation of a category that was invented by
journalists, amplified by free market think tanks and converted into policy doxa (common …

There are significant geographical inequalities in health. Spatial stigma-negative
representations of particular localities-could be an important mechanism through which …

Territorial stigmatisation emerged over the past decade as the prevailing concept for
understanding the phenomenon of disreputable places and the processes by which they are …

Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in
the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu …

This paper reaffirms the importance of politics in theories on gentrification through analysis
of a recent 'regeneration'project based in Craigmillar, a stigmatised district on the …

The concept of territorial stigmatisation has garnered increasing attention over the past
decade. Studies from across six continents confirm and contribute to the concept's growing …

The idea of a “broken society” is advanced by Conservative politicians in the UK as
emblematic of social and moral decay. With many echoes of long-standing claims of societal …