Settlement types, territorial discourse and the symbolic production of the ‘post-industrial town’

Jay Emery
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Couched in work on territory, discourse and symbolic power, this paper examines how dominant representations and classifications of settlement types are produced by overlapping political, media and academic discourses through an investigation of the ‘post-industrial town.’ The 2016 referendum on European Union (EU) membership and the 2019 General Election thrust England’s deindustrializing towns into the foreground. Viewed as the primary settlement type of the ‘Brexit heartlands’ and the ‘Red Wall’, descriptions, encodings and classifications of the ‘post-industrial town’ have proliferated across media, academic and political discourses. Following, the article draws on Critical Discourse Studies to trace the emergence of the ‘post-industrial town’ as a territorial production. I argue that the ‘post-industrial town’ has been produced by discursive and socio-technical practices invoking symbolic imaginaries of how places look, who lives there and their practices. In the case of ‘post-industrial towns’, a dominant symbolic production has emerged of an older, white, working-class, non-cosmopolitan and socially conservative type of settlement. Moreover, discursive and symbolic territorial productions have led to (un)wilful misrepresentation and misrecognition as places ‘on-the-ground’ are brought into political strategizing and discourse.
居住区类型、地域话语和 "后工业化城镇 "的象征性生产
本文以领土、话语和象征权力为研究对象,通过对 "后工业化城镇 "的调查,探讨了政治、媒体和学术话语的重叠如何产生了对居住区类型的主流表述和分类。2016 年关于欧盟成员国身份的公投和 2019 年大选将英格兰的去工业化城镇推到了前台。作为 "脱欧中心地带 "和 "红墙 "的主要聚落类型,"后工业化城镇 "的描述、编码和分类在媒体、学术和政治话语中层出不穷。随后,文章借鉴批判性话语研究,追溯了 "后工业化城镇 "作为一种地域生产的出现。我认为,"后工业化城镇 "是通过话语和社会技术实践产生的,这些实践调用了关于地方外观、居住者及其实践的符号想象。就 "后工业化城镇 "而言,出现了一种占主导地位的象征性生产,即老式的、白人的、工人阶级的、非国际化的和社会保守的居住区类型。此外,随着 "实地 "地方被纳入政治战略和话语中,话语和象征性的领土生产导致了(非)故意的错误表述和错误认知。
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