Reflecting on the margins: socio-spatial stigmatisation among adolescents in a peripheralised region

Abstract: "Based on the project 'Discourse and practices in shrinking regions', we analyse the subjective relevance of derogative discourses using the example of the district of Altenburger Land (Germany). The article combines three aspects: First, it focuses on how young people's representations of practices of social differentiation are informed by regionalised discourses about and conditions of shrinkage. Second, it identifies two rhetoric strategies by which young people distance themselves from perceived deviance. Finally, it asks how perceptions and rhetoric strategies are connected to desires to out-migrate. We assume that stigmatisation is a powerful means of producing and circulating socio-spatial differentiation, especially under conditions of socio-economic crisis and deprivation. Our principal hypothesis is that socio-spatial stigmatisation is effective (and destructive) in terms of how people perceive themselves within their home region, in relation to other inhabitants and rega

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• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anmerkungen: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Comparative Population Studies - Zeitschrift für Bevölkerungswissenschaft ; 41 (2016) 3-4 ; 36

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wo): Mannheim
• (wer): SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository
• (wann): 2016
• Urheber: Meyer, Frank ; Miggelbrink, Judith ; Schwarzenberg, Tom

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• DOI: 10.12765/CPoS-2016-10en
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021070207133669769558
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.